Ezekiel 33:21-22
English Standard Version
Jerusalem Struck Down
21 In the (A)twelfth year (B)of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, (C)a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and said, (D)“The city has been struck down.” 22 (E)Now (F)the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
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Ezekiel 33:21-22
International Standard Version
False Reliance on Abraham’s Heritage
21 On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our captivity, a fugitive who had escaped from Jerusalem came and informed me, “The city has been destroyed.”
22 Now the hand of the Lord had been touching me the evening before that fugitive arrived, so the Lord had given me something to say by the time the messenger[a] arrived the next morning. He opened my mouth and I no longer had nothing to say to him.[b]
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- Ezekiel 33:22 Lit. time he
- Ezekiel 33:22 The Heb. lacks to him
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