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Ezekiel 33:20-22
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20 Yet you say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”[a]

The Fall of Jerusalem

21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month,[b] a refugee came to me from Jerusalem saying, “The city has been defeated!”[c] 22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me[d] the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord[e] opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived[f] in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was able to speak once more.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:20 tn Heb “ways.”
  2. Ezekiel 33:21 tn January 19, 585 b.c.
  3. Ezekiel 33:21 tn Heb “smitten.”
  4. Ezekiel 33:22 tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.
  5. Ezekiel 33:22 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  6. Ezekiel 33:22 tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.
  7. Ezekiel 33:22 sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).
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