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Ezekiel 26:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord GOD.” "
Ezekiel 26:21
Verse in Context
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19 “For the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you,
20 then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.
21 I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord GOD.”
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Ezekiel 26:1
"In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 26:2
"“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’"
Ezekiel 26:3
"therefore the Lord GOD says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up."
Ezekiel 26:4
"They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock."
Ezekiel 26:5
"She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord GOD. ‘She will become plunder for the nations."
Ezekiel 26:6
"Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’"
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