25 “‘You profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come,(A) whose time of punishment has reached its climax,(B) 26 this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown.(C) It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.(D) 27 A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! The crown will not be restored until he to whom it rightfully belongs shall come;(E) to him I will give it.’(F)

Read full chapter

25 And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,[a](A)
the day has come(B)
for your punishment.”[b]

26 This is what the Lord God says:

Remove the turban, and take off the crown.
Things will not remain as they are;[c]
exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.(C)
27 A ruin, a ruin,
I will make it a ruin!
Yet this will not happen
until He comes;(D)
I have given the judgment to Him.[d]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:25 = King Zedekiah
  2. Ezekiel 21:25 Lit come in the time of the punishment of the end
  3. Ezekiel 21:26 Lit This not this
  4. Ezekiel 21:27 Or comes to whom it rightfully belongs, and I will give it to Him