Ezekiel 24:14-25:17

English Standard Version

¹⁴^(A)I am the Lord. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; ^(B)I will not spare; ^(C)I will not relent; ^(D)according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel's Wife Dies

¹⁵The word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁶^(E)“Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down. ¹⁷Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. ^(F)Bind on your turban, and ^(G)put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, ^(H)nor eat the bread of men.” ¹⁸So I spoke to the people in the morning, and ^(I)at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did ^(J)as I was commanded.

¹⁹And ^(K)the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?” ²⁰Then I said to them, “The word of the Lord came to me: ²¹‘Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: ^(L)Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and ^(M)your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword. ²²And ^(N)you shall do as I have done; ^(O)you shall not cover your lips, ^(P)nor eat the bread of men. ²³^(Q)Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but ^(R)you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another. ²⁴Thus shall Ezekiel be to you ^(S)a sign; ^(T)according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then ^(U)you will know that I am the Lord God.’

²⁵“As for you, ^(V)son of man, surely on the day when I take from them ^(W)their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters, ²⁶^(X)on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news. ²⁷On that day your mouth ^(Y)will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. ^(Z)So you will be a sign to them, and ^(AA)they will know that I am the Lord.”

Prophecy Against Ammon

25 The word of the Lord came to me: ²^(AB)“Son of man, ^(AC)set your face toward ^(AD)the Ammonites and prophesy against them. ³Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God: ^(AE)Thus says the Lord God, Because you said, ^(AF)‘Aha!’ over my ^(AG)sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile, ⁴therefore behold, I am handing you over to ^(AH)the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk. ⁵I will make ^(AI)Rabbah a ^(AJ)pasture for camels and Ammon^[a] ^(AK)a fold for flocks. ^(AL)Then you will know that I am the Lord. ⁶For thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AM)you have clapped your hands ^(AN)and stamped your feet and ^(AO)rejoiced with all the ^(AP)malice within your soul against the land of Israel, ⁷therefore, behold, ^(AQ)I have stretched out my hand against you, and ^(AR)will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Moab and Seir

⁸“Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(AS)Moab and ^(AT)Seir^[b] said, ‘Behold, the ^(AU)house of Judah is like all the other nations,’ ⁹therefore ^(AV)I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, ^(AW)Beth-jeshimoth, ^(AX)Baal-meon, and ^(AY)Kiriathaim. ¹⁰I will give it ^(AZ)along with the Ammonites ^(BA)to the people of the East as a possession, ^(BB)that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations, ¹¹^(BC)and I will execute judgments upon Moab. ^(BD)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Prophecy Against Edom

¹²“Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(BE)Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended ^(BF)in taking vengeance on them, ¹³therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(BG)I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from ^(BH)Teman even to ^(BI)Dedan they shall fall by the sword. ¹⁴And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom ^(BJ)by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and ^(BK)they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord God.

Prophecy Against Philistia

¹⁵“Thus says the Lord God: Because ^(BL)the Philistines ^(BM)acted revengefully and took vengeance ^(BN)with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity, ¹⁶therefore thus says the Lord God, ^(BO)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off ^(BP)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast. ¹⁷I will execute great vengeance on them ^(BQ)with wrathful rebukes. ^(BR)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon them.”