Ezekiel 33:22
20 Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
21 In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”
Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.
23 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
24 “Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.
- KJV
- Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
- WEB
- Now the LORD’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
- ASV
- Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
- DARBY
- Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth against his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
- BLB
- And the hand of YHWH had been upon me in the evening, before the coming of the escapee, and He had opened my mouth until [his] coming to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was not mute any longer.
- ÅB
- Og Herrens hånd var kommet over meg om kvelden, før flyktningene kom, og han åpnet min munn, innen de kom til meg om morgenen; min munn ble åpnet, og jeg var ikke lenger målløs.
- OTB
- Nå hadde Herrens hånd vært over meg om kvelden før mannen kom, og han åpnet min munn før mannen kom til meg om morgenen. Så min munn ble åpnet, og jeg var ikke lenger taus.
- B1930
- Og Herrens hånd var kommet over mig om aftenen, før flyktningene kom, og han oplot min munn, innen de kom til mig om morgenen; min munn blev oplatt, og jeg var ikke lenger målløs.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 1:3
the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:26–27
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
Read in contextEzekiel 24:26–27
on that day a fugitive will come and tell you the news.
Read in contextEzekiel 37:1
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
Read in contextLuke 1:64
Immediately Zechariah’s mouth was opened and his tongue was released, and he began to speak, praising God.
Read in contextEzekiel 3:22
And there the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He said to me, “Get up, go out to the plain, and there I will speak with you.”
Read in contextEzekiel 40:1
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
Read in context