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Ezekiel 24:19-21
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Ezekiel 24:19-21
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19 Then the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”
20 So I said to them: “The Lord’s message came to me: 21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary—the source of your confident pride,[a] the object in which your eyes delight,[b] and your life’s passion.[c] Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die[d] by the sword.
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- Ezekiel 24:21 tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”
- Ezekiel 24:21 sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”), so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.
- Ezekiel 24:21 tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”
- Ezekiel 24:21 tn Heb “fall.”
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