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Ezekiel 21:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken. "

Ezekiel 21:23

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21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.

22 In his right hand was the lot for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, and to build forts.

23 It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

24 “Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have caused your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear; because you have come to memory, you will be taken with the hand.

25 “‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,

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From This Chapter

Ezekiel 21:1

"The LORD’s word came to me, saying,"

Ezekiel 21:2

"“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel."

Ezekiel 21:3

"Tell the land of Israel, ‘The LORD says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked."

Ezekiel 21:4

"Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north."

Ezekiel 21:5

"All flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.”’"

Ezekiel 21:6

"“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness."

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