Book of Ezekiel bible study chapters 21 through 29

 

            This is a continuation of the bible study in the book of Ezekiel where the prophet Ezekiel is given various prophecies against various differing nations, Israel and others who have rejoiced in the fall of Israel and Jerusalem, of judgment for the various wrongs that they committed, idolatry and pride key in those wrongs. This bible study is thena follow up of the previous bible study, containing chapters 12 through 20 a link to which can be found here

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In Ezekiel chapter 21 then Ezekiel brings messages of judgment on all Israel and Jerusalem and later concerning the Ammonites

(Ezekiel 21:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 21:2)  "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel

 

(Ezekiel 21:3)  and say to the land of Israel, Thus says the LORD: Behold, I am against you and will draw my sword from its sheath and will cut off from you both righteous and wicked.

 

(Ezekiel 21:4)  Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword shall be drawn from its sheath against all flesh from south to north.

 

(Ezekiel 21:5)  And all flesh shall know that I am the LORD. I have drawn my sword from its sheath; it shall not be sheathed again.

 

(Ezekiel 21:6)  "As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.

 

(Ezekiel 21:7)  And when they say to you, 'Why do you groan?' you shall say, 'Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,'" declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 21:8)  And the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 21:9)  "Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus says the Lord, say: "A sword, a sword is sharpened and also polished,

 

(Ezekiel 21:10)  sharpened for slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! (Or shall we rejoice? You have despised the rod, my son, with everything of wood.)

 

(Ezekiel 21:11)  So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.

 

(Ezekiel 21:12)  Cry out and wail, son of man, for it is against my people. It is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Strike therefore upon your thigh.

 

(Ezekiel 21:13)  For it will not be a testing--what could it do if you despise the rod?" declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 21:14)  "As for you, son of man, prophesy. Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, yes, three times, the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them,

 

(Ezekiel 21:15)  that their hearts may melt, and many stumble. At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; it is taken up for slaughter.

 

(Ezekiel 21:16)  Cut sharply to the right; set yourself to the left, wherever your face is directed.

 

(Ezekiel 21:17)  I also will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my fury; I the LORD have spoken."

 

(Ezekiel 21:18)  The word of the LORD came to me again:

 

(Ezekiel 21:19)  "As for you, son of man, mark two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come. Both of them shall come from the same land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to a city.

 

(Ezekiel 21:20)  Mark a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.

 

(Ezekiel 21:21)  For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.

 

(Ezekiel 21:22)  Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.

 

(Ezekiel 21:23)  But to them it will seem like a false divination. They have sworn solemn oaths, but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be taken.

 

(Ezekiel 21:24)  "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your deeds your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in hand.

 

(Ezekiel 21:25)  And you, O profane wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,

 

(Ezekiel 21:26)  thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban and take off the crown. Things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low, and bring low that which is exalted.

 

(Ezekiel 21:27)  A ruin, ruin, ruin I will make it. This also shall not be, until he comes, the one to whom judgment belongs, and I will give it to him.

 

(Ezekiel 21:28)  "And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the Ammonites and concerning their reproach; say, A sword, a sword is drawn for the slaughter. It is polished to consume and to flash like lightning--

 

(Ezekiel 21:29)  while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you--to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

 

(Ezekiel 21:30)  Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.

 

(Ezekiel 21:31)  And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and I will deliver you into the hands of brutish men, skillful to destroy.

 

(Ezekiel 21:32)  You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 22 Ezekiel is told by the Lord to issue a stern rebuke on Jerusalem for all their uncleanness and evil promising  to bring judgment and destruction on them for all of their evil ways

(Ezekiel 22:1)  And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

 

(Ezekiel 22:2)  "And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.

 

(Ezekiel 22:3)  You shall say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

 

(Ezekiel 22:4)  You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.

 

(Ezekiel 22:5)  Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.

 

(Ezekiel 22:6)  "Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

 

(Ezekiel 22:7)  Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.

 

(Ezekiel 22:8)  You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

 

(Ezekiel 22:9)  There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst.

 

(Ezekiel 22:10)  In you men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity.

 

(Ezekiel 22:11)  One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.

 

(Ezekiel 22:12)  In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 22:13)  "Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst.

 

(Ezekiel 22:14)  Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken, and I will do it.

 

(Ezekiel 22:15)  I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.

 

(Ezekiel 22:16)  And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the LORD."

 

(Ezekiel 22:17)  And the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 22:18)  "Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver.

 

(Ezekiel 22:19)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

 

(Ezekiel 22:20)  As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you.

 

(Ezekiel 22:21)  I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.

 

(Ezekiel 22:22)  As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have poured out my wrath upon you."

 

(Ezekiel 22:23)  And the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 22:24)  "Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation.

 

(Ezekiel 22:25)  The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

 

(Ezekiel 22:26)  Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

 

(Ezekiel 22:27)  Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain.

 

(Ezekiel 22:28)  And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, 'Thus says the Lord GOD,' when the LORD has not spoken.

 

(Ezekiel 22:29)  The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice.

 

(Ezekiel 22:30)  And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

 

(Ezekiel 22:31)  Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord GOD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 23 a certain two women are used as bad examples with their adultery to bring judgment on Israel/Judah for adultery/idolatry and all the other wrong doings committed by them

(Ezekiel 23:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 23:2)  "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother.

 

(Ezekiel 23:3)  They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.

 

(Ezekiel 23:4)  Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

 

(Ezekiel 23:5)  "Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors

 

(Ezekiel 23:6)  clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

 

(Ezekiel 23:7)  She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

 

(Ezekiel 23:8)  She did not give up her whoring that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her.

 

(Ezekiel 23:9)  Therefore I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted.

 

(Ezekiel 23:10)  These uncovered her nakedness; they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became a byword among women, when judgment had been executed on her.

 

(Ezekiel 23:11)  "Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

 

(Ezekiel 23:12)  She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

 

(Ezekiel 23:13)  And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way.

 

(Ezekiel 23:14)  But she carried her whoring further. She saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,

 

(Ezekiel 23:15)  wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea.

 

(Ezekiel 23:16)  When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

 

(Ezekiel 23:17)  And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.

 

(Ezekiel 23:18)  When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister.

 

(Ezekiel 23:19)  Yet she increased her whoring, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt

 

(Ezekiel 23:20)  and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses.

 

(Ezekiel 23:21)  Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed your young breasts."

 

(Ezekiel 23:22)  Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:

 

(Ezekiel 23:23)  the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, governors and commanders all of them, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.

 

(Ezekiel 23:24)  And they shall come against you from the north with chariots and wagons and a host of peoples. They shall set themselves against you on every side with buckler, shield, and helmet; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.

 

(Ezekiel 23:25)  And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.

 

(Ezekiel 23:26)  They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

 

(Ezekiel 23:27)  Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.

 

(Ezekiel 23:28)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will deliver you into the hands of those whom you hate, into the hands of those from whom you turned in disgust,

 

(Ezekiel 23:29)  and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring

 

(Ezekiel 23:30)  have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

 

(Ezekiel 23:31)  You have gone the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.

 

(Ezekiel 23:32)  Thus says the Lord GOD: "You shall drink your sister's cup that is deep and large; you shall be laughed at and held in derision, for it contains much;

 

(Ezekiel 23:33)  you will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow. A cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria;

 

(Ezekiel 23:34)  you shall drink it and drain it out, and gnaw its shards, and tear your breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Eze 23:35)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have forgotten me and cast me behind your back, you yourself must bear the consequences of your lewdness and whoring."

 

(Ezekiel 23:36)  The LORD said to me: "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Declare to them their abominations.

 

(Ezekiel 23:37)  For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

 

(Ezekiel 23:38)  Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

 

(Ezekiel 23:39)  For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.

 

(Ezekiel 23:40)  They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.

 

(Ezekiel 23:41)  You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

 

(Ezekiel 23:42)  The sound of a carefree multitude was with her; and with men of the common sort, drunkards were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on the hands of the women, and beautiful crowns on their heads.

 

(Ezekiel 23:43)  "Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!

 

(Ezekiel 23:44)  For they have gone in to her, as men go in to a prostitute. Thus they went in to Oholah and to Oholibah, lewd women!

 

(Ezekiel 23:45)  But righteous men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands."

 

(Ezekiel 23:46)  For thus says the Lord GOD: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.

 

(Ezekiel 23:47)  And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

 

(Ezekiel 23:48)  Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

 

(Ezekiel 23:49)  And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know that I am the Lord GOD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 24 the word of the Lord again comes to Ezekiel once again promising His judgment to come on Israel and Jerusalem for the wrongs that they did so that they will then know that He is the Lord

(Ezekiel 24:1)  In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 24:2)  "Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.

 

(Ezekiel 24:3)  And utter a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Set on the pot, set it on; pour in water also;

 

(Ezekiel 24:4)  put in it the pieces of meat, all the good pieces, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

 

(Ezekiel 24:5)  Take the choicest one of the flock; pile the logs under it; boil it well; seethe also its bones in it.

 

(Ezekiel 24:6)  "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose corrosion is in it, and whose corrosion has not gone out of it! Take out of it piece after piece, without making any choice.

 

(Ezekiel 24:7)  For the blood she has shed is in her midst; she put it on the bare rock; she did not pour it out on the ground to cover it with dust.

 

(Ezekiel 24:8)  To rouse my wrath, to take vengeance, I have set on the bare rock the blood she has shed, that it may not be covered.

 

(Ezekiel 24:9)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.

 

(Ezekiel 24:10)  Heap on the logs, kindle the fire, boil the meat well, mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned up.

 

(Ezekiel 24:11)  Then set it empty upon the coals, that it may become hot, and its copper may burn, that its uncleanness may be melted in it, its corrosion consumed.

 

(Ezekiel 24:12)  She has wearied herself with toil; its abundant corrosion does not go out of it. Into the fire with its corrosion!

 

(Ezekiel 24:13)  On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you.

 

(Ezekiel 24:14)  I am the LORD. I have spoken; it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will be judged, declares the Lord GOD."

 

(Ezekiel 24:15)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 24:16)  "Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.

 

(Ezekiel 24:17)  Sigh, but not aloud; make no mourning for the dead. Bind on your turban, and put your shoes on your feet; do not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men."

 

(Ezekiel 24:18)  So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died. And on the next morning I did as I was commanded.

 

(Ezekiel 24:19)  And the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?"

 

(Ezekiel 24:20)  Then I said to them, "The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 24:21)  'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 24:22)  And you shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.

 

(Ezekiel 24:23)  Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

 

(Ezekiel 24:24)  Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done you shall do. When this comes, then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.'

 

(Ezekiel 24:25)  "As for you, son of man, surely on the day when I take from them their stronghold, their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and their soul's desire, and also their sons and daughters,

 

(Ezekiel 24:26)  on that day a fugitive will come to you to report to you the news.

 

(Ezekiel 24:27)  On that day your mouth will be opened to the fugitive, and you shall speak and be no longer mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the LORD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 25 Ezekiel is to pronounce judgments against nations like Ammon, Moab, Seir and others because of their rejoicing over Israel and Judah’s torments and even helping Babylon

(Ezekiel 25:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 25:2)  "Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

 

(Ezekiel 25:3)  Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

 

(Ezekiel 25:4)  therefore behold, I am handing you over to the people of the East for a possession, and they shall set their encampments among you and make their dwellings in your midst. They shall eat your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.

 

(Ezekiel 25:5)  I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 25:6)  For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel,

 

(Ezekiel 25:7)  therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 25:8)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Moab and Seir said, 'Behold, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,'

 

(Ezekiel 25:9)  therefore I will lay open the flank of Moab from the cities, from its cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim.

 

(Ezekiel 25:10)  I will give it along with the Ammonites to the people of the East as a possession, that the Ammonites may be remembered no more among the nations,

 

(Ezekiel 25:11)  and I will execute judgments upon Moab. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 25:12)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because Edom acted revengefully against the house of Judah and has grievously offended in taking vengeance on them,

 

(Ezekiel 25:13)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, I will stretch out my hand against Edom and cut off from it man and beast. And I will make it desolate; from Teman even to Dedan they shall fall by the sword.

 

(Ezekiel 25:14)  And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 25:15)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: Because the Philistines acted revengefully and took vengeance with malice of soul to destroy in never-ending enmity,

 

(Ezekiel 25:16)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

 

(Ezekiel 25:17)  I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay my vengeance upon them."

 

In chapter 26 because of Tyre exalting itself and expecting growth for Jerusalem’s woes Ezekiel is then prophesies judgment and destruction on Tyre

(Ezekiel 26:1)  In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 26:2)  "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,'

 

(Ezekiel 26:3)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

 

(Ezekiel 26:4)  They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

 

(Ezekiel 26:5)  She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,

 

(Ezekiel 26:6)  and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 26:7)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.

 

(Ezekiel 26:8)  He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.

 

(Ezekiel 26:9)  He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

 

(Ezekiel 26:10)  His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

 

(Ezekiel 26:11)  With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

 

(Ezekiel 26:12)  They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

 

(Ezekiel 26:13)  And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

 

(Ezekiel 26:14)  I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 26:15)  "Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?

 

(Ezekiel 26:16)  Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

 

(Ezekiel 26:17)  And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you, "'How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea; she and her inhabitants imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!

 

(Ezekiel 26:18)  Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.'

 

(Ezekiel 26:19)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,

 

(Ezekiel 26:20)  then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.

 

(Ezekiel 26:21)  I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 27 Ezekiel is instructed to raise up a lament over Tyre and its coming destruction

(Ezekiel 27:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 27:2)  "Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

 

(Ezekiel 27:3)  and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrances to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD: "O Tyre, you have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'

 

(Ezekiel 27:4)  Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

 

(Ezekiel 27:5)  They made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

 

(Ezekiel 27:6)  Of oaks of Bashan they made your oars; they made your deck of pines from the coasts of Cyprus, inlaid with ivory.

 

(Ezekiel 27:7)  Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail, serving as your banner; blue and purple from the coasts of Elishah was your awning.

 

(Ezekiel 27:8)  The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you; they were your pilots.

 

(Ezekiel 27:9)  The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you, caulking your seams; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to barter for your wares.

 

(Ezekiel 27:10)  "Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.

 

(Ezekiel 27:11)  Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made perfect your beauty.

 

(Ezekiel 27:12)  "Tarshish did business with you because of your great wealth of every kind; silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your wares.

 

(Ezekiel 27:13)  Javan, Tubal, and Meshech traded with you; they exchanged human beings and vessels of bronze for your merchandise.

 

(Ezekiel 27:14)  From Beth-togarmah they exchanged horses, war horses, and mules for your wares.

 

(Ezekiel 27:15)  The men of Dedan traded with you. Many coastlands were your own special markets; they brought you in payment ivory tusks and ebony.

 

(Ezekiel 27:16)  Syria did business with you because of your abundant goods; they exchanged for your wares emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and ruby.

 

(Ezekiel 27:17)  Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.

 

(Ezekiel 27:18)  Damascus did business with you for your abundant goods, because of your great wealth of every kind; wine of Helbon and wool of Sahar

 

(Ezekiel 27:19)  and casks of wine from Uzal they exchanged for your wares; wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were bartered for your merchandise.

 

(Ezekiel 27:20)  Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

 

(Ezekiel 27:21)  Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your favored dealers in lambs, rams, and goats; in these they did business with you.

 

(Ezekiel 27:22)  The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.

 

(Ezekiel 27:23)  Haran, Canneh, Eden, traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with you.

 

(Ezekiel 27:24)  In your market these traded with you in choice garments, in clothes of blue and embroidered work, and in carpets of colored material, bound with cords and made secure.

 

(Ezekiel 27:25)  The ships of Tarshish traveled for you with your merchandise. So you were filled and heavily laden in the heart of the seas.

 

(Ezekiel 27:26)  "Your rowers have brought you out into the high seas. The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

 

(Ezekiel 27:27)  Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.

 

(Ezekiel 27:28)  At the sound of the cry of your pilots the countryside shakes,

 

(Ezekiel 27:29)  and down from their ships come all who handle the oar. The mariners and all the pilots of the sea stand on the land

 

(Ezekiel 27:30)  and shout aloud over you and cry out bitterly. They cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

 

(Ezekiel 27:31)  they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

 

(Ezekiel 27:32)  In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

 

(Ezekiel 27:33)  When your wares came from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with your abundant wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

 

(Ezekiel 27:34)  Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters; your merchandise and all your crew in your midst have sunk with you.

 

(Ezekiel 27:35)  All the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled at you, and the hair of their kings bristles with horror; their faces are convulsed.

 

(Eze 27:36)  The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.'"

 

In Ezekiel chapter 28 Ezekiel is directed to write prophecies against the prince and king of Tyre and also Sidon and then reminds of the promise to re-gather Israel together so Israel will know that He is the Lord

(Ezekiel 28:1)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 28:2)  "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god--

 

(Ezekiel 28:3)  you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;

 

(Ezekiel 28:4)  by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

 

(Ezekiel 28:5)  by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth--

 

(Ezekiel 28:6)  therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god,

 

(Ezekiel 28:7)  therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

 

(Ezekiel 28:8)  They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.

 

(Ezekiel 28:9)  Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?

 

(Ezekiel 28:10)  You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD."

 

(Ezekiel 28:11)  Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 28:12)  "Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

 

(Ezekiel 28:13)  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

 

(Ezekiel 28:14)  You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.

 

(Ezekiel 28:15)  You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.

 

(Ezekiel 28:16)  In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

 

(Ezekiel 28:17)  Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

 

(Ezekiel 28:18)  By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.

 

(Ezekiel 28:19)  All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever."

 

(Ezekiel 28:20)  The word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 28:21)  "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her

 

(Ezekiel 28:22)  and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her;

 

(Ezekiel 28:23)  for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

 

(Ezekiel 28:24)  "And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 28:25)  "Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

 

(Ezekiel 28:26)  And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God."

 

In Ezekiel chapter 29 Ezekiel is directed to then prophesy against the Pharaoh of Egypt and his land various judgments that are coming their way so they know that He is the Lord and Tyre is also mentioned too.

(Ezekiel 29:1)  In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 29:2)  "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against all Egypt;

 

(Ezekiel 29:3)  speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his streams, that says, 'My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.'

 

(Ezekiel 29:4)  I will put hooks in your jaws, and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales; and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams, with all the fish of your streams that stick to your scales.

 

(Ezekiel 29:5)  And I will cast you out into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your streams; you shall fall on the open field, and not be brought together or gathered. To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I give you as food.

 

(Ezekiel 29:6)  Then all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD. "Because you have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel,

 

(Ezekiel 29:7)  when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders; and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their loins to shake.

 

(Ezekiel 29:8)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and will cut off from you man and beast,

 

(Eze kiel29:9)  and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they will know that I am the LORD. "Because you said, 'The Nile is mine, and I made it,'

 

(Ezekiel 29:10)  therefore, behold, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, as far as the border of Cush.

 

(Ezekiel 29:11)  No foot of man shall pass through it, and no foot of beast shall pass through it; it shall be uninhabited forty years.

 

(Eze 29:12)  And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

 

(Ezekiel 29:13)  "For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered,

 

(Ezekiel 29:14)  and I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin, and there they shall be a lowly kingdom.

 

(Ezekiel 29:15)  It shall be the most lowly of the kingdoms, and never again exalt itself above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will never again rule over the nations.

 

(Ezekiel 29:16)  And it shall never again be the reliance of the house of Israel, recalling their iniquity, when they turn to them for aid. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."

 

(Ezekiel 29:17)  In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

 

(Ezekiel 29:18)  "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

 

(Ezekiel 29:19)  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army.

 

(Ezekiel 29:20)  I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he labored, because they worked for me, declares the Lord GOD.

 

(Ezekiel 29:21)  "On that day I will cause a horn to spring up for the house of Israel, and I will open your lips among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

For the next ten chapters of the book of Ezekiel, chapters 30 through 39 which contain prophecies, a vision, also some of the prophecies are end times related please go to this link

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Ezekiel is a prophet of the Lord during the captivity of Judah in Babylon who was blessed with many visions and a very key mission to the scattered to get them to repent and return to God. He was blessed with these visions and given a powerful message to give to the children of Israel/Judah of God’s love and desire for people to repent of their sins. The message then given by Ezekiel urging people to repent of and turn from their evil ways still rings very true today much, much later than the writing of this prophetic book , for then God will fulfill promises and also send His son Jesus to die for our sins, taking our own death for us, that we deserved to die, and doing it willingly and in love, wanting a love relationship restored and had with both Him and the Father in heaven. There is nothing like a relationship with God, either, nothing can ever be compared to it at all. I am now including a prayer which you can say and invite Jesus in your hearts to begin this wonderful love relationship or even to come back to it if you have drifted away. God is very merciful to those who repent and turn back to Him. Please pray this prayer with me

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

God bless you and yours