Ezekiel 21:24

24 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.

Ezekiel 21:24 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:24

Therefore thus saith the Lord God
Because of their vain confidence, added to their perjury and perfidy: because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered;
their old sins, by committing new ones, both against the Lord, and against the king of Babylon: in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings
your sins do appear;
both in their religious and civil actions; in the worship of God, and in their covenants and agreements with men; their sins were exposed and manifest to all, not only to God, who was provoked thereby, but to men, to the nations round about; particularly to Nebuchadnezzar, who was enraged by them: because, I say, that they are come to remembrance;
both before the Lord, and the king of Babylon: ye shall be taken with the hand;
as easily as a bird is, when in the snare. The Targum is,

``ye shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon;''

which is no doubt the sense of the passage.

Ezekiel 21:24 In-Context

22 Into his right hand comes the lot for Jerusalem, to open the mouth with a cry, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.

23 But to them it will seem like a false divination; they have sworn solemn oaths; but he brings their guilt to remembrance, that they may be captured.

24 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have made your guilt to be remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your sins appear--because you have come to remembrance, you shall be taken in them.

25 And you, O unhallowed wicked one, prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of your final punishment,

26 thus says the Lord GOD: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.