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26 You rely on your sword, you do a detestable thing, and each man defiles[a] the wife of his neighbor, and yet you want to take possession of the land?”’[b]

27 “Thus you must say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “As I live,[c] surely[d] whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals[e] to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague. 28 And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate with no one traveling through them.”’[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 33:26 Literally “a man the wife of neighbor you defile”
  2. Ezekiel 33:26 Or “you would take possession of the land”
  3. Ezekiel 33:27 Literally “I live”
  4. Ezekiel 33:27 Literally “if not”
  5. Ezekiel 33:27 Hebrew “animal”
  6. Ezekiel 33:28 Literally “from there is not someone going over”