Hesekiel 12:23

Lutherbibel

Darum sprich zu ihnen: So spricht der HERR HERR: Ich will das Sprichwort aufheben, daß man es nicht mehr führen soll in Israel. Und rede zu ihnen: Die Zeit ist nahe und alles, was geweissagt ist.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Darum sprich zu ihnen: So spricht Gott, der Herr : Ich will diesem Sprichwort ein Ende machen, daß man es in Israel nicht mehr brauchen soll! Du aber sprich zu ihnen: Die Tage sind nahe, und jedes Wort der Weissagung trifft ein!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Ezekiel 18:3, Isaiah 28:22

The days: Ezekiel 12:25, Ezekiel 7:2, Ezekiel 7:5-7, Ezekiel 7:10-12, Joel 2:1, Zephaniah 1:14, Malachi 4:1, Matthew 24:34, James 5:8, James 5:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 1:12 - I will Jeremiah 48:16 - near Lamentations 4:18 - our end is near Ezekiel 7:7 - the time Ezekiel 12:28 - There shall Ezekiel 13:6 - have seen Amos 8:2 - the end Micah 7:4 - the day Romans 2:4 - despisest Revelation 22:10 - for

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Tell them therefore,.... Plainly and boldly, with the greatest assurance and confidence, as from God himself:

thus saith the Lord God, I will make this proverb to cease; by quickly accomplishing the things which they, by this proverb, represented as at a great distance, and what would never be brought about:

and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; when the things predicted shall take place:

but say unto them, the days are at hand, and the effect of every vision; the time is hastening on, and will quickly come, when every prophecy shall be fulfilled: it was in the sixth year of Jehoiachin's captivity that these prophecies were delivered out; and in the ninth year Nebuchadnezzar came with his army, and besieged Jerusalem; so that the days were at hand; in three years' time there began an accomplishment of the above predictions, which were scoffed at in the proverb used.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As in Ezekiel 7:0, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.

Ezekiel 12:22

The land of Israel - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was prevalent a disregard for the true prophets, which is ever followed by a recognition of the false. First, the true prophet is rejected because it is thought that his prophecies fail. Then men persuade themselves that if the prophecy be true it respects some distant time, and that the men of the present generation need not disturb themselves about it. Compare Jeremiah 1:11; Amos 6:3; Matthew 24:43; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:4. Against both these delusions Ezekiel is commissioned to protest, and so to lead the way to his condemnation of his countrymen for their blind reliance on false prophets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 12:23. The days are at hand — Far from failing or being prolonged, time is posting on, and the destruction threatened is at the door.