Ezekiel 21:32
in Ezekiel 21You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
KJV
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it.
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This verse in Ezekiel 21
Commentary
6 notes on this verseWhen we speak to people about their souls we should study plainness, and express ourselves as we may be the best understood. Christ expounded his parables to his disciples, Mark iv. The prophet is here more plainly directed against whom to level the arrow of this prophecy.
This site's exposition
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath
on Ezekiel 21:30-32
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath answers its own question, the sword will not be sheathed until it has done its full work, and the Lord promises to judge Ammon in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity rather than allow the nation any refuge abroad. Deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy names the Babylonians a second time under a different description, an army skilled precisely at the destruction Ammon is about to receive. Thou shalt be no more remembered closes the oracle the way the chapter opened it, a sword drawn that does not return, now finished against the second of its two appointed targets.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 28 and following) And you, son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God to the sons of Ammon and to their disgrace. And you shall say: Sword, sword, draw yourself out for slaughter: hone yourself to kill and to shine. Although they seem vain to you and their divinations are lies, so that you may be given over to the necks of the wicked wounded, whose appointed day has come in the time of iniquity. Return to your sheath, in the place where you were created: in the land of your birth I will judge you.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Note, Wicked men make themselves fuel to the fire of God's wrath; they are consumed by it, and it is inflamed by them. It shall be effected by the sword of war; to them he must cry, as before to Israel, because they had triumphed in Israel's overthrow: The sword, the sword is drawn (
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou shalt be no more remembered - The empire of the Chaldeans was destroyed, and the power transferred to the Persians; the Persian empire was destroyed, and given to the Greeks; the Grecian empire was destroyed, and given to the Mohammedans; and the destruction of the Mohammedans is at no great distance.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לָאֵ֤שׁ | laesh | for the fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| תִּֽהְיֶה֙ | tihyeh | you will become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לְאָכְלָ֔ה | leokhlah | <into> fuel | H402 → | 18 times |
| דָּמֵ֥ךְ | damekh | blood your | H1818 → | 360 times |
| יִהְיֶ֖ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בְּת֣וֹךְ | betokh | in [the] midst of | H8432 → | 418 times |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תִזָּכֵ֔רִי | tizakheri | you will be remembered | H2142 → | 230 times |
| כִּ֛י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ פ | dibarti | I have spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
לָאֵ֤שׁfor the fire
laeshH784 →378 times
תִּֽהְיֶה֙you will become
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
לְאָכְלָ֔ה<into> fuel
leokhlahH402 →18 times
דָּמֵ֥ךְblood your
damekhH1818 →360 times
יִהְיֶ֖הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
בְּת֣וֹךְin [the] midst of
betokhH8432 →418 times
הָאָ֑רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תִזָּכֵ֔רִיyou will be remembered
tizakheriH2142 →230 times
כִּ֛יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ פI have spoken
dibartiH1696 →1141 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
it leads to
- Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- 1 Peter 1:25
but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
- Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Isaiah 55:11
so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Matthew 5:18
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
- Isaiah 40:8
Through
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:29
Moreover, the Glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind, for He is not a man, that He should change His mind.”
- James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Malachi 3:6
“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- 1 Samuel 15:29
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.