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20 But you Israelites continue to say, “The Lord is not fair!” But I will judge each of you in a way that you deserve for the things that you have done.’

Ezekiel hears news about Jerusalem

21 This is what happened 12 years after we had come to Babylon as prisoners. It was on the 5th day of the 10th month of that year. A man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me in Babylon.[a] He said, ‘Enemies have taken Jerusalem for themselves.’ 22 Before that man arrived, the Lord had taken hold of me in the night. He had opened my mouth so that I was able to speak again.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 33:21 It had probably taken this man many months to bring the news from Jerusalem to Babylon. It was a long and difficult journey for him. See 2 Kings 25:3-10; Jeremiah 39:2-8; 52:4-14.
  2. 33:22 See Ezekiel 3:26-27.