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19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; 20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, [a]in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; [b]and I will set glory in the land of the living. 21 I will make thee [c]a terror, and thou shalt no more have any being; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Another reading is, like.
  2. Ezekiel 26:20 Or, as otherwise read, nor set thy glory etc.
  3. Ezekiel 26:21 Or, a destruction. Hebrew terrors.

19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths(A) over you and its vast waters cover you,(B) 20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,(C) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[a] in the land of the living.(D) 21 I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more.(E) You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.”(F)

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  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory