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21 In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!” 22 Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:22 Lit. time he
  2. Ezekiel 33:22 The Heb. lacks to him