Ezekiel 12:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Therefore, son of man, pack your belongings as if for exile and go into exile in their sight—by day, in their sight—so that they may see. Move from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Therefore, son of man, prepare your belongings for departure, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Therfore (O thou sonne of man) make thy gere redy to flit, and go forth by fayre daye light, yt they maye se. Yee eue in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place: yf peraduenture they wil considre, yt they be an vnobedient housholde.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Therefore thou sonne of man, prepare thy stuffe to goe into captiuitie, and goe foorth by day in their sight: and thou shalt passe from thy place to another place in their sight, if it be possible that they may consider it: for they are a rebellious house.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Therfore (O thou sonne of man) prepare thee instrumentes to flit with, & remoue on the day time that they may see, yea euen in their sight shalt thou go from thy place to another place, yf peraduenture they wyll consider that they be a rebellious house.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they [be] a rebellious house.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Therefore, you son of man, prepare you stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And thou, son of man, make to thee vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and thou hast removed from thy place unto another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for a rebellious house they `are'.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Therefore, you son of man, prepare your stuff for moving, and move by day in their sight; and you shall move from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, although they are a rebellious house.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 36:3 : 3 Perhaps the house of Judah will hear about all the disaster I intend to bring upon them, so that each one may turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.
  • Jer 26:3 : 3 Perhaps they will listen and turn, each one, from their evil ways. Then I will relent concerning the disaster that I plan to bring on them because of the evil they have done.
  • 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 Gently instruct those who oppose you, in the hope that God might grant them repentance, leading them to a knowledge of the truth.
  • Luke 20:13 : 13 Then the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.'
  • Jer 36:7 : 7 Perhaps they will bring their plea before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way, for great are the anger and wrath that the LORD has pronounced against this people.
  • Ezek 4:1-9 : 1 Now, you, son of man, take a brick and set it before you; then inscribe on it the city of Jerusalem. 2 Build siege works against it, construct a ramp, set up camps around it, and place battering rams against it all around. 3 Then take an iron plate and place it as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Set your face against it, besiege it, and let it be under siege. This will be a sign for the house of Israel. 4 Lie on your left side and put the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it. You will bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on that side. 5 I assign you the years of their iniquity as the number of days—three hundred ninety days—during which you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. 6 When you have completed these, lie down again, this time on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah for forty days, a day for each year. I have assigned you this period. 7 Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it. 8 I will tie you up with ropes so that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have completed the days of your siege. 9 Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it. 10 The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day. 11 You are to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin, at set times each day. 12 Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight. 13 The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.' 14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.' 15 He said to me, 'Look, I have given you cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may use it to bake your bread.' 16 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.' 17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'
  • Ezek 12:10-12 : 10 Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in the city.’ 11 Say, ‘I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.’ 12 The prince who is among them will shoulder his belongings and leave in the darkness. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.
  • Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them, 'As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from their ways and live. Turn back! Turn back from your evil ways! Why should you die, house of Israel?'
  • Luke 13:8-9 : 8 'Sir,' the gardener replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it.' 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! But if not, then cut it down.'
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh, that their hearts would always fear Me and keep all My commands, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end.
  • Ps 81:13 : 13 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their hearts to follow their own counsels.
  • Jer 13:1-9 : 1 Thus the LORD said to me, "Go and buy a linen waistband, and put it around your waist, but do not put it in water." 2 So I bought the waistband as the LORD had instructed, and I put it around my waist. 3 Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time, saying, 4 "Take the waistband you bought and are wearing, arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock." 5 So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, just as the LORD commanded me. 6 After many days, the LORD said to me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and retrieve the waistband from the place where I hid it." 7 So I went to the Euphrates, dug it out, and took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it. But behold, the waistband was ruined and no longer useful for anything. 8 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 9 "This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. 10 These evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who follow the stubbornness of their hearts, and who follow other gods to serve and worship them, will become like this waistband—useless for anything. 11 For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me,' declares the LORD, 'to be my people, my renown, my praise, and my glory. But they would not listen.'
  • Jer 18:2-9 : 2 “Rise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear My words.” 3 So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was working at the wheel. 4 But the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, so he remade it into another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 “Can I not do with you, O house of Israel, as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. 7 At any moment I might speak concerning a nation or a kingdom, to uproot it, tear it down, or destroy it. 8 But if that nation I have warned repents of its evil, then I will relent concerning the disaster I had planned to bring upon it. 9 And at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or kingdom, to build it up or to plant it. 10 But if it does evil in My sight by not listening to My voice, then I will relent concerning the good I had promised to bless it with. 11 And now, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am shaping disaster against you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each one from his evil way, and reform your ways and deeds.’ 12 But they will say, ‘It’s no use. We will continue to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart.’
  • Jer 19:1-9 : 1 This is what the LORD said: Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and of the priests with you. 2 Go out to the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate, and there proclaim the words I tell you. 3 Say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring disaster on this place that will make the ears of anyone who hears of it tingle. 4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. 5 They have built high places to Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind. 6 So beware! The days are coming,’ declares the LORD, ‘when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 In this place, I will ruin the plans of Judah and Jerusalem. I will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and at the hands of those who seek their lives. I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. 8 I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. 9 I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another's flesh because of the siege and distress that their enemies and those who seek their lives will impose on them. 10 Then you are to break the jar in the presence of those who are with you. 11 And say to them, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s jar that cannot be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury.’ 12 This is what I will do to this place and to its inhabitants, declares the LORD: I will make this city like Topheth. 13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods. 14 Jeremiah then returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD’s temple and said to all the people: 15 This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I am about to bring upon this city and all its surrounding towns all the disaster I pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks and refused to listen to My words.
  • Jer 25:4-7 : 4 The LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ears to hear. 5 They said, 'Turn now, each of you, from your evil way and from your evil actions. Dwell in the land that the LORD gave to you and your ancestors forever and ever. 6 Do not follow other gods to serve them or worship them. Do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; then I will not bring disaster upon you.' 7 But you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, and you have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own harm.
  • Jer 27:2 : 2 This is what the LORD instructed me: "Make for yourself chains and yokes, and place them on your neck.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ezek 12:4-12
    9 verses
    88%

    4Bring out your belongings as if for exile during the day, in their sight. Then, in the evening, leave in their sight, as if you were departing into exile.

    5In their sight, dig through the wall and carry your belongings through it.

    6Carry your things on your shoulder in their sight, at dusk. Cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.

    7So I did as I was commanded. By day, I brought out my belongings as if for exile. In the evening, I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought them out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.

    8Then in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    9Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

    10Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: This oracle concerns the prince in Jerusalem and all the house of Israel who are in the city.’

    11Say, ‘I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.’

    12The prince who is among them will shoulder his belongings and leave in the darkness. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land.

  • Ezek 12:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    2Son of man, you are living among a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 3:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9I have made your forehead like the hardest stone, harder than flint. Do not fear them or be dismayed by their faces, even though they are a rebellious house.

    10And he said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all the words I speak to you and listen closely with your ears."

    11Go to the exiles, to your people, and speak to them. Say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says,' whether they listen or refuse to listen.

  • Ezek 3:25-27
    3 verses
    75%

    25And you, son of man, behold, they will bind you with ropes, so you cannot go out among the people.

    26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.

    27But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth, and you will say to them, 'This is what the Lord GOD says.' Whoever will listen, let them listen, and whoever will refuse, let them refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

  • Ezek 43:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Son of man, explain the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins. Let them measure the plan.

    11If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple—its layout, its exits and entrances, its entire form, all its statutes, all its designs, and all its instructions. Write it down in their sight, so they may observe all its design and all its statutes and carry them out.

  • Ezek 3:4
    75%

    4Then he said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them."

  • Ezek 12:27
    74%

    27Son of man, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision he sees is for many days from now; he prophesies about times far off.’

  • Ezek 11:4
    74%

    4Therefore prophesy against them; prophesy, son of man!

  • Ezek 40:4
    74%

    4The man said to me, 'Son of man, look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for this is why you have been brought here. Declare everything you see to the house of Israel.'

  • Ezek 2:5-8
    4 verses
    74%

    5Whether they listen or refuse to listen—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

    6You, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not fear though briars, thorns, or scorpions are around you. Do not be afraid of their words or terrified by their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

    7You shall speak my words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.

    8But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like this rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.

  • Ezek 8:6
    73%

    6And He said to me, 'Son of man, do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see even greater abominations.'

  • Ezek 2:3
    73%

    3He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day.

  • Ezek 8:12
    73%

    12Then He said to me, 'Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each in the chamber of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has abandoned the land.’'

  • Ezek 24:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25As for you, son of man, on the day I take from them their stronghold—their joy and glory, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their souls, as well as their sons and daughters—

    26On that day, a fugitive will come to you to report the news to your ears.

  • Ezek 3:17
    72%

    17"Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them warning from Me.

  • Ezek 33:30
    72%

    30As for you, son of man, the people of your nation are talking about you near the walls and at the doorways of their houses. They are saying to one another, each to their brother, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'

  • Ezek 21:6
    72%

    6Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 24:16
    72%

    16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

  • Ezek 21:2
    71%

    2Son of man, turn your face toward the south, and speak against the south. Prophesy against the forest of the southern land,

  • Ezek 33:7
    71%

    7Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. So hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.

  • Ezek 8:17
    71%

    17And He said to me, 'Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a trivial thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence and continually anger Me. Behold, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

  • Ezek 11:18
    71%

    18When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.

  • Ezek 11:15
    71%

    15'Son of man, your brothers, your brothers—those close to you by kinship, and the entire house of Israel—are the ones to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, "Keep away from the Lord; this land has been given to us as a possession."

  • Ezek 17:2
    71%

    2Son of man, pose a riddle and tell a parable to the house of Israel.

  • Ezek 37:11
    71%

    11Then He said to me, 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, and we are cut off.”'

  • Ezek 12:17
    70%

    17The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 4:1
    70%

    1Now, you, son of man, take a brick and set it before you; then inscribe on it the city of Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 13:17
    70%

    17As for you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who prophesy out of their own imagination. Prophesy against them.

  • Ezek 33:2
    70%

    2Son of man, speak to the people of your nation and say to them, 'When I bring a sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one man from among them and make him their watchman,'

  • Ezek 4:7
    70%

    7Direct your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

  • Ezek 24:3
    70%

    3Speak a parable to the rebellious house and say to them, 'This is what the Lord God says: Put the pot on, put it on, and pour water into it.

  • Ezek 17:12
    70%

    12Say to the rebellious house, ‘Do you not understand what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.