Ezekiel 28:21

Young's Literal Translation

`Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, face Sidon and prophesy against it.

Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, set your face toward Tzidon, and prophesy against it,

King James Version
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

English Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

New Century Version
"Human, look toward the city of Sidon and prophesy against her.

Amplified Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

World English Bible
Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesie against it,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the city of Sidon

Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, turn your face toward Tzidon, and prophesy against it.

Darby Translation
Son of man, set thy face towards Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, look toward Sidon and speak for me against that place.

George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, set your face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Good News Translation
"Mortal man, denounce the city of Sidon.

Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it,

Literal Translation
Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face agaynst Sido, Prophecie vpo it,

American Standard Version
Son of man, set thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Bible in Basic English
Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it,

King James Version (1611)
Sonne of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophecie against it,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophecie vpon it,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,

English Revised Version
Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Thou, sone of man, sette thi face ayens Sidon, and thou schalt profesie of it;

Update Bible Version
Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

New English Translation
"Son of man, turn toward Sidon and prophesy against it.

New King James Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her,

New Living Translation
"Son of man, turn and face the city of Sidon and prophesy against it.

New Life Bible
"Son of man, look toward Sidon and speak against her.

New Revised Standard
Mortal, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man, Set thy face towards Zidon, - And prophesy over it;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,

Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

Contextual Overview

²⁰ And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ²¹ `Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it; ²² and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I [am] against thee, O Zidon, And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her. ²³ And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst, By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I [am] Jehovah. ²⁴ And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them -- despising them, And they have known that I [am] the Lord Jehovah. ²⁵ Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In My gathering the house of Israel, Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, Before the eyes of the nations, And they have dwelt on their ground, That I gave to My servant, to Jacob, ²⁶ And they have dwelt on it confidently, And builded houses, and planted vineyards, And dwelt confidently -- in My doing judgments, On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I, Jehovah, [am] their God!'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set: Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 25:2, Ezekiel 29:2

Zidon: Tyre was a colony of the Zidonians - See note on Isaiah 23:12, and consequently Zidon was a more ancient, though a less considerable city than Tyre; and it is probable that it was taken by the Chaldeans soon after the destruction of the latter. It was afterwards burnt to the ground by the inhabitants, to prevent it falling in the hands of Ochus. Ezekiel 27:8, Ezekiel 32:30, Genesis 10:15, Sidon, Isaiah 23:2-4, Isaiah 23:12, Jeremiah 25:22, Jeremiah 27:3, Jeremiah 47:4, Joel 3:4-8, Zechariah 9:2

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 21:2 - set Mark 7:24 - Tyre

Cross-References

Exodus 15:2
My strength and song is JAH, And He is become my salvation: This [is] my God, and I glorify Him; God of my father, and I exalt Him.

Deuteronomy 26:17
Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice.

Judges 11:31
then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon -- it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it -- a burnt-offering.'

2 Samuel 15:8
for a vow hath thy servant vowed in my dwelling in Geshur, in Aram, saying, If Jehovah doth certainly bring me back to Jerusalem, then I have served Jehovah.'

2 Samuel 19:24
And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king -- and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace --

2 Samuel 19:30
And Mephibosheth saith unto the king, `Yea, the whole let him take, after that my lord the king hath come in peace unto his house.'

2 Kings 5:17
And Naaman saith, `If not -- let be given, I pray thee, to thy servant, a couple of mules' burden of earth, for thy servant doth make no more burnt-offering and sacrifice to other gods, but to Jehovah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, set thy face against Zidon,.... An ancient city, near to Tyre, and in confederacy with it, greatly given to idolatry and superstition; and may design all the antichristian states in the communion of the church of Rome:

and prophesy against it; the prophet is bid to look towards this place with a stern countenance, as before against Tyre; threatening it with ruin, and prophesying of it, in the following manner.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Prophecy against Zidon. Zidon (mod. Saida) was more ancient than Tyre and was the original metropolis of Phoenicia Genesis 10:19, but in the times of Phoenician greatness it ever played a subordinate part. Only once Judges 10:12 do we find the “Zidonians” in conflict with Israel. The evil which they did was the seducing them to idolatry (compare Ezekiel 28:24), as in the case of Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Zidonians 1 Kings 16:31. The capture of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar increased the importance of Zidon, which was a wealthy and flourishing town when Artaxerxes Ochus destroyed it. It has rallied from time to time, but has never attained to any great consequence, though not in such complete ruin as Tyre.