Ezekiel 33:20-22

International Standard Version

²⁰ “And yet you keep saying, ‘Living life^[a] the Lord’s way isn’t right,’ But I will judge every one of you according to the way you live, you house of Israel!”

False Reliance on Abraham’s Heritage

²¹ On the fifth day of the tenth month of the twelfth year of our captivity, a fugitive who had escaped from Jerusalem came and informed me, “The city has been destroyed.”

²² Now the hand of the Lord had been touching me the evening before that fugitive arrived, so the Lord had given me something to say by the time the messenger^[b] arrived the next morning. He opened my mouth and I no longer had nothing to say to him.^[c]