Ezekiel 33:20-22

Contemporary English Version

²⁰ But the Israelites still think I am unfair. So warn them that they will be punished for what they have done.

The News of Jerusalem's Fall

^21 (A) Twelve years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, a refugee who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me on the fifth day of the tenth month.^[a] He told me that the city had fallen.

²² The evening before this man arrived at my house, the Lord had taken control of me. So when the man came to me the next morning, I could once again speak.^[b]