Ezekiel:33:21-33
rsv@Ezekiel:33:21 @ In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a man who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has fallen."
rsv@Ezekiel:33:22 @ Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the morning; so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:23 @ The word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:33:24 @ "Son of man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, `Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.'
rsv@Ezekiel:33:25 @ Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
rsv@Ezekiel:33:26 @ You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?
rsv@Ezekiel:33:27 @ Say this to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured; and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by pestilence.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:28 @ And I will make the land a desolation and a waste; and her proud might shall come to an end; and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:29 @ Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations which they have committed.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:30 @ "As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, `Come, and hear what the word is that comes forth from the LORD.'
rsv@Ezekiel:33:31 @ And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:32 @ And, lo, you are to them like one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.
rsv@Ezekiel:33:33 @ When this comes--and come it will!--then they will know that a prophet has been among them."
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