Ezekiel 24:21

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am about to profane my sanctuary—the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your soul. Your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.’

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Speak{H559} unto the house{H1004} of Israel,{H3478} Thus saith{H559} the Lord{H136} Jehovah:{H3069} Behold, I will profane{H2490} my sanctuary,{H4720} the pride{H1347} of your power,{H5797} the desire{H4261} of your eyes,{H5869} and that which your soul{H5315} pitieth;{H4263} and your sons{H1121} and your daughters{H1323} whom ye have left{H5800} behind shall fall{H5307} by the sword.{H2719}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Speak{H559}{(H8798)} unto the house{H1004} of Israel{H3478}, Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the Lord{H136} GOD{H3069}; Behold, I will profane{H2490}{(H8764)} my sanctuary{H4720}, the excellency{H1347} of your strength{H5797}, the desire{H4261} of your eyes{H5869}, and that which your soul{H5315} pitieth{H4263}; and your sons{H1121} and your daughters{H1323} whom ye have left{H5800}{(H8804)} shall fall{H5307}{(H8799)} by the sword{H2719}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Tell the house of Israel, thus saieth ye LODDE God: beholde, I wil suspende my Sanctuary: eue the glory of youre power, the pleasure of yor eyes, and the thinge that ye loue: youre sonnes and doughters whom ye haue left, shal fall thorow the swerde.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Speake vnto the house of Israel, Thus sayth the Lord God, Behold, I will pollute my Sanctuarie, euen the pride of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and your hearts desire, and your sonnes, and your daughters whom ye haue left, shall fall by the sworde.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Tell the house of Israel, thus sayth the Lorde God: Beholde, I will pollute my sanctuarie, euen the glorie of your power, the pleasure of your eyes, and your heartes delite: & your sonnes and daughters whom ye haue left, shall fall through the sworde.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Say to the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am polluting My sanctuary, The excellency of your strength, The desire of your eyes, and the pitied of your soul, And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left, by sword they do fall.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary– the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 23:47 : 47 They will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses with fire.
  • Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked from the Lord; this I will seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
  • Jer 7:14 : 14 So I will do to the house that bears my name, in which you trust, and to the place I gave to you and your ancestors, just as I did to Shiloh.
  • Ezek 23:25 : 25 I will direct my jealous fury against you, and they will deal with you in anger. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and daughters, and those who remain will be consumed by fire.
  • Jer 6:11 : 11 But I am full of the wrath of the Lord, and I am weary of holding it in. Pour it out on the children in the streets and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be taken, the old and those advanced in years.
  • Ps 84:1 : 1 For the director of music, according to Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
  • Ezek 24:16 : 16 Son 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.
  • Jer 16:3-4 : 3 For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land: 4 They will die from deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will lie like dung on the ground. They will perish by the sword and famine, and their corpses will be food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.
  • Lam 1:10 : 10 The enemy has laid hands on all her treasures; she saw nations enter her sanctuary—those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
  • Lam 2:6-7 : 6 He has violently done away with his dwelling, as if it were a garden, destroying his appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused Zion to forget its appointed times and Sabbaths. In his fierce anger, he has despised king and priest alike. 7 The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They raised their voices in the house of the LORD as on a day of appointed festival.
  • Ezek 7:20-22 : 20 They took pride in the beauty of their jewelry and made it into images of their detestable idols. Therefore, I will make it a thing of uncleanness for them. 21 I will give it into the hands of foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. 22 I will turn my face away from them, and they will desecrate my treasured place. Violent men will enter it and desecrate it.
  • Ezek 9:7 : 7 Then he said to them, 'Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!' So they went out and struck down people in the city.
  • Dan 11:31 : 31 Forces from him will rise up and desecrate the sanctuary fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
  • Acts 6:13-14 : 13 They presented false witnesses who said, 'This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.' 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs Moses handed down to us.
  • Ps 96:6 : 6 Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
  • Ps 105:4 : 4 Seek the LORD and His strength; seek His presence continually.
  • Ps 132:8 : 8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who abandon the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of wine for Destiny,
  • Jer 9:21 : 21 Speak, this is what the Lord declares: The dead bodies of people will fall like dung on the open field, like bundles left behind by the reaper, with no one to gather them.
  • Ps 74:7 : 7 They set Your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of Your name, bringing it to the ground.
  • Ps 79:1 : 1 A psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • 25 As 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—

  • Ezek 5:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.

    11 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and abominations, I Myself will withdraw. My eye will not spare, and I will show no pity.

    12 One third of you will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you. Another third will fall by the sword around you, and the final third I will scatter to every wind and pursue with a drawn sword.

  • 6 Also, her villages in the countryside will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • 20 So I said to them, 'The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • 17 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

  • Lev 26:29-33
    5 verses
    75%

    29 You will eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

    30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

    31 I will lay your cities in ruins, make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer smell the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

    32 I will bring the land to desolation so that even your enemies who live there will be appalled by it.

    33 I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you. Your land will be desolate and your cities will lie in ruins.

  • 74%

    21 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: How much worse will it be when I send my four dreadful judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—against Jerusalem, to cut off both man and beast from it!

    22 Yet, behold, there will be survivors, some sons and daughters brought out. They will come to you, and you will see their ways and their deeds. You will be comforted concerning the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem, all I have brought upon it.

  • 4 Your altars will be demolished, and your incense altars will be shattered. I will throw down your slain before your idols.

  • 22 Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am about to punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine.’

  • 8 'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

  • 25 I will direct my jealous fury against you, and they will deal with you in anger. They will cut off your nose and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and daughters, and those who remain will be consumed by fire.

  • Lam 2:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 Look, LORD, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their own children, the little ones they have cherished? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

    21 Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.

  • 16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

  • Ezek 6:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7 The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am the LORD.

    8 Yet I will leave a remnant, so that some of you will escape the sword among the nations when you are scattered throughout the lands.

  • 17 They will consume your harvest and your bread, devour your sons and daughters, eat your flocks and herds, and consume your vines and fig trees. With the sword, they will destroy your fortified cities in which you trust.

  • 20 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

  • 73%

    46 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: ‘Bring a great assembly against them and hand them over to terror and plunder.'

    47 They will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses with fire.

  • 72%

    27 Tell them this: 'This is what the Lord GOD says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those who are in the open field I will give to wild animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of plague.'

    28 I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.

  • 72%

    15 The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

    16 Son 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 6:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 This is what the Lord GOD says: Clap your hands, stomp your feet, and cry out, 'Alas!' because of all the wicked abominations of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and plague.

    12 The one who is far away will die by the plague, the one who is near will fall by the sword, and those who survive and are besieged will die of famine. Then I will exhaust My wrath upon them.

  • Ezek 21:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

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

    3 and say to the southern forest, 'Listen to the word of the LORD. This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Behold, I am about to set you ablaze, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree within you. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

  • 25 Your men will fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle.

  • 39 When they slaughtered their children as sacrifices to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on the same day to desecrate it. See, this is what they have done in my house.

  • 21 All his fugitives in all his troops will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered to every direction. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’

  • 7 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: The slain you have put within it—they are the meat, and this city is the pot. But I will bring you out of it.

  • 18 By your many sins and your dishonest trade, you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I brought fire out from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all those watching.

  • 16 even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, they could not save their sons or daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the land would become desolate.

  • 36 This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your lust and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children you gave to them,

  • 71%

    14 Son of man, prophesy and say, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: A sword! A sword, sharpened and also polished—

    15 sharpened to slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Should we rejoice in the scepter of My son, which despises every tree?'

  • 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people while you watch with longing eyes all day, but you will be powerless to act.

  • 7 Then he said to them, 'Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!' So they went out and struck down people in the city.

  • 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • 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.

  • 14 I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hands of their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,

  • 11 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: "An enemy will surround the land, bring down your strength, and plunder your fortresses."