Ezekiel 21:26

Judgment

²⁴ Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.

²⁵ And you, O profane and wicked prince of Israel, the day has come for your final punishment.’

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.

²⁷ A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’

²⁸ Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
KJV: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
WEB: the Lord GOD says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.
ASV: thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
DARBY: thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Remove the mitre and take off the crown; what is shall be no [more]. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
BLB: thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Turn aside the turban and lift off the crown; this [will] no longer [be] the same! The low make high, and the high make low.

ÅB: Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Ta huen bort og løft kronen av! Det som nå er, skal ikke være mere; det lave skal opphøyes, og det høye skal fornedres.
OTB: dette sier den suverene Herren: Fjern turbanen og ta av kronen. Det skal ikke være som det var: den lave skal opphøyes og den opphøyede skal bringes lavt.
B1930: Så sier Herren, Israels Gud: Ta huen bort og løft kronen av! Det som nu er, skal ikke være mere; det lave skal ophøies, og det høie skal fornedres.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 17:24
Then all the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring the tall tree down and make the low tree tall. I dry up the green tree and make the withered tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I have done it.’”
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Psalms 75:7
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
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Jeremiah 13:18
Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
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Jeremiah 52:31–34
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
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Jeremiah 52:9–11
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on Zedekiah.
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Ezekiel 16:12
I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
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Luke 1:52
He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
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2 Kings 25:6
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
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