Ezekiel 21:32

32 'You will be 1fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will 2not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.' "

Ezekiel 21:32 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:32

Thou shalt be for fuel for the fire
Easily consumed, as briers and thorns cast into a furnace; such are wicked men to the fire of God's wrath: thy blood shall be in the midst of the land;
such large numbers shall be slain everywhere, that the land shall flow with the blood of them; who shall lie unburied, and rot, and putrefy upon the ground: thou shalt be no more remembered;
but lie in everlasting oblivion, as they do to this day; the name of an Ammonite being nowhere mentioned and heard of: for I the Lord have spoken it;
who never alters the thing that is gone out of his lips; and sooner shall heaven and earth pass away than one word of his. The Targum is,

``for I the Lord have decreed by my word;''
and his counsel shall stand, and every purpose and resolution of his shall be accomplished.

Ezekiel 21:32 In-Context

30 'Return it to its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
31 'I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
32 'You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD , have spoken.' "

Cross References 2

  • 1. Ezekiel 20:47, 48; Malachi 4:1
  • 2. Ezekiel 25:10

Footnotes 1

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