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27 “Thus you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “As I live,[a] surely[b] whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals[c] to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague. 28 And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate with no one traveling through them.”’[d] 29 And they will know that I am Yahweh when I make my land a desolation and a wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:27 Literally “I live”
  2. Ezekiel 33:27 Literally “if not”
  3. Ezekiel 33:27 Hebrew “animal”
  4. Ezekiel 33:28 Literally “from there is not someone going over”

27 “Tell them this: ‘This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I have given to wild animals to be devoured, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.(A) 28 I will make the land a desolate waste,(B) and its proud strength will come to an end.(C) The mountains of Israel(D) will become desolate, with no one passing through. 29 They will know that I am the Lord when I make the land a desolate waste because of all the detestable acts they have committed.’

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