Ezekiel 39:21

¹⁹ At the sacrifice I am preparing, you will eat fat until you are gorged and drink blood until you are drunk.

²⁰ And at My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and warriors of every kind,’ declares the Lord GOD.

I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.

²² From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.

²³ And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

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: I will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
KJV: And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
WEB: “I will set my glory among the nations. Then all the nations will see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid on them.
ASV: And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
DARBY: And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have executed, and my hand which I have laid upon them.
BLB: And I will give forth My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see My judgment that I have made, and My hand that I have set upon them.

ÅB: Og jeg vil åpenbare min herlighet iblant folkene, og alle folkene skal se den dom som jeg har holdt, og min hånd som jeg har lagt på dem.
OTB: Jeg vil vise min herlighet blant folkene, og alle folkene skal se den dommen jeg fullbyrder og den hånd jeg legger på dem.
B1930: Og jeg vil åpenbare min herlighet iblandt folkene, og alle folkene skal se den dom som jeg har holdt, og min hånd som jeg har lagt på dem.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 38:23
I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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Isaiah 37:20
And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
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Ezekiel 36:23
I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
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Ezekiel 38:16
You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the latter days, O Gog, that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I show Myself holy in you before their eyes.
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Exodus 9:16
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
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Exodus 7:4
Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay My hand on Egypt, and by mighty acts of judgment I will bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 14:4
And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
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1 Samuel 6:9
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
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