And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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4 additional translations▾
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4 additional translationsAnd they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, and I took them away when I saw [it].
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)