Ezekiel 21:1

Young's Literal Translation

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me again:

Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
The word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Century Version
Then the Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Amplified Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
The word of ye Lord came to me againe, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the word of the LORD came to me saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said:

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
So the word of the Lord came to me again. He said,

George Lamsa Translation
AND the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me.

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The worde of the LORDE came to me, sayenge:

American Standard Version
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:

New King James Version
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
Then this message came to me from the Lord :

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD came to me:

THE MESSAGE
God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, now face Jerusalem and let the Message roll out against the Sanctuary. Prophesy against the land of Israel. Say, ‘ God 's Message: I'm against you. I'm pulling my sword from its sheath and killing both the wicked and the righteous. Because I'm treating everyone the same, good and bad, everyone from south to north is going to feel my sword! Everyone will know that I mean business.'

Contextual Overview

¹ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ² `Son of man, set thy face unto Jerusalem, and prophesy unto the holy places, and prophesy unto the ground of Israel; ³ and thou hast said unto the ground of Israel: Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, And have brought out My sword from its scabbard, And have cut off from thee righteous and wicked. ⁴ Because that I have cut off from thee righteous and wicked, Therefore go out doth My sword from its scabbard, Unto all flesh, from south to north. ⁵ And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more. ⁶ And thou, son of man, sigh with breaking of loins, yea, with bitterness thou dost sigh before their eyes, ⁷ and it hath come to pass, when they say unto thee, For what art thou sighing? that thou hast said: Because of the report, for it is coming, And melted hath every heart, And feeble hath been all hands, And weak is every spirit, And all knees go -- waters, Lo, it is coming, yea, it hath been, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:14 - General Ezekiel 35:1 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

Genesis 17:19
and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

Genesis 17:21
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

Genesis 18:10
and he saith, `returning I return unto thee, about the time of life, and lo, to Sarah thy wife a son.'

Genesis 18:14
And Jehovah saith unto Abraham, `Why [is] this? Sarah hath laughed, saying, Is it true really -- I bear -- and I am aged? Is any thing too wonderful for Jehovah? at the appointed time I return unto thee, about the time of life, and Sarah hath a son.'

Genesis 21:17
And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he [is];

Genesis 21:20
and God is with the youth, and he groweth, and dwelleth in the wilderness, and is an archer;

Genesis 50:24
And Joseph saith unto his brethren, `I am dying, and God doth certainly inspect you, and hath caused you to go up from this land, unto the land which He hath sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.'

Exodus 3:16
`Go, and thou hast gathered the elders of Israel, and hast said unto them: Jehovah, God of your fathers, hath appeareth unto me, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have certainly inspected you, and that which is done to you in Egypt;

Exodus 4:31
and the people believe when they hear that Jehovah hath looked after the sons of Israel, and that He hath seen their affliction; and they bow and do obeisance.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Upon the above excuse or complaint about speaking in parables; wherefore the prophet is ordered to speak in plainer language to the people. It is very probable that the prophet delivered the prophecy recorded in the latter part of the preceding chapter in the figurative terms in which he received it; and he here is bid to explain it to the people, or to repeat it to them in clearer expressions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The first word of judgment Ezekiel 21:1-7. Ezekiel speaks first to the people of Israel, shows the universality of the coming destructions, and indicates by a sign (that of sighing) the sadness of the calamity.

The words and order of words are identical with Ezekiel 20:45-46, except that for “south,” there are substituted:

(1) “Jerusalem;”

(2) “the holy place,” i. e., the temple and its various parts;

(3) “the land of Israel.”

No subterfuge is left for the people to pretend misunderstanding.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

The prophet goes on to denounce the fate of Jerusalem and

Judea; using signs of vehement grief, to denote the greatness

of the calamity, 2-7.

He then changes the emblem to that of a sharp and bright sword,

still denoting the same sad event, 8-17;

and, becoming yet more explicit, he represents the king of

Babylon, who was to be employed by God in this work, as setting

out to take vengeance on both the Jews and the Ammonites, for

joining with Egypt in a confederacy against him. He is

described as standing at the parting of the roads leading to

the respective capitals of the Jews and Ammonites; and doubting

which to attack first, he commits the decision of the matter to

his arts of divination, performed by mingling arrows inscribed

with the names of the different nations or cities, and then

marching against that whose name was written on the arrow first

drawn from the quiver. In this case the name Jerusalem comes

forward; and therefore he proceeds against it, 18-24.

History itself could scarcely be more explicit than this

prophecy. The profane prince Zedekiah as then declared to be

given up by God, and his kingdom devoted to utter destruction,

for that breach of oath of which the prophet foretells he

should be guilty, 25-27.

The remaining verses form a distinct prophecy relating to the

destruction of the Ammonites, which was fulfilled about five

years after the destruction of Jerusalem, 28-32.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI