Ezekiel 33:22-24

International Standard Version

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^[a] arrived the next morning. He opened my mouth and I no longer had nothing to say to him.^{[b] 23} As a result, this message came to me from the Lord:

²⁴ “Son of Man, those who are living among these ruins of the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, but he was able to possess the land! As for us, we’re a multitude, and the land has been given to us as an inheritance.’