Ezekiel 21:32
New International Version
You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more; for I the LORD have spoken.’”

New Living Translation
You will be fuel for the fire, and your blood will be spilled in your own land. You will be utterly wiped out, your memory lost to history, for I, the LORD, have spoken!”

English Standard Version
You shall be fuel for the fire. Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall be no more remembered, for I the LORD have spoken.”

Berean Standard Bible
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’ ”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
You shall be fuel for the fire; Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall not be remembered, For I the LORD have spoken.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
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.’”

NASB 1995
‘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.’”

NASB 1977
‘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.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.’”

Amplified Bible
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.’”

Christian Standard Bible
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will be spilled within the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’ ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will be spilled in the land. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

American Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
You will be burned and will die in your own land. Then you will be forgotten forever. I, the LORD, have spoken.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You will be fuel for the fire. You will die in the land. You will no longer be remembered. I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

Good News Translation
You will be destroyed by fire. Your blood will be shed in your own country, and no one will remember you any more.'" The LORD has spoken.

International Standard Version
You'll be fuel for the conflagration. Your blood will be spilled throughout the land. You won't be remembered anymore, now that I, the LORD, have spoken."

Majority Standard Bible
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”

NET Bible
You will become fuel for the fire--your blood will stain the middle of the land; you will no longer be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.'"

New Heart English Bible
You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it."'"

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You are fuel for the fire, "" Your blood is in the midst of the land, "" You are not remembered, "" For I, YHWH, have spoken!”

Young's Literal Translation
To the fire thou art for fuel, Thy blood is in the midst of the land, Thou art not remembered, For I, Jehovah, have spoken!'

Smith's Literal Translation
Thou shalt be to the fire for consuming; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt not be remembered: for I Jehovah spake.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy blood shall be in the midst of the land, thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord have spoken it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
You will be food for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land; you will be delivered to oblivion. For I, the Lord, have spoken.”

New American Bible
You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall flow throughout the land; You shall not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall be fuel for the fire, your blood shall enter the earth; you shall be remembered no more, for I the LORD have spoken.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
You shall be fuel for the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered; for I the LORD have spoken it.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And you shall be fuel for fire, and your blood shall be within the land, and you shall not be remembered, because I, LORD JEHOVAH, have spoken”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
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.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt be fuel for fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of thy land; there shall be no remembrance at all of thee: for I the Lord have spoken it.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD's Sword of Judgment
31I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction. 32You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”

Cross References
Isaiah 34:5-6
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. / The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat—with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Jeremiah 50:35-38
A sword is against the Chaldeans, declares the LORD, against those who live in Babylon, and against her officials and wise men. / A sword is against her false prophets, and they will become fools. A sword is against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. / A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered. ...

Isaiah 66:16
For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

Jeremiah 25:31-33
The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD. / This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.” / Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.

Isaiah 13:15-18
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword. / Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished. / Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. ...

Jeremiah 49:37
So I will shatter Elam before their foes, before those who seek their lives. I will bring disaster upon them, even My fierce anger,” declares the LORD. “I will send out the sword after them until I finish them off.

Isaiah 10:16-19
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. / And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles. / The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man. ...

Jeremiah 51:20-23
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin. / With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver. / With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden. ...

Isaiah 30:30-33
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones. / For Assyria will be shattered at the voice of the LORD; He will strike them with His scepter. / And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished. ...

Jeremiah 46:10
For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

Revelation 19:15
And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

Revelation 14:19-20
So the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes of the earth, and he threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. / And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

Revelation 19:21
And the rest were killed with the sword that proceeded from the mouth of the One seated on the horse. And all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.

2 Thessalonians 1:7-9
and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels / in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. / They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

Revelation 6:8
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the middle of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.

for fuel

Ezekiel 20:47,48
And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein…

Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Matthew 3:10,12
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire…

thy blood

Ezekiel 21:30
Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Isaiah 34:3-7
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood…

Ezekiel 25:10
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

for I

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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You will be fuel for the fire
This phrase signifies complete destruction and judgment. In the Hebrew context, "fuel for the fire" (literally "food for the fire") indicates something that is utterly consumed. Fire in the Bible often symbolizes God's judgment and purification (e.g., Malachi 3:2-3). Here, it underscores the totality of the impending judgment on the people. The imagery of fire consuming fuel is vivid, suggesting that the people will be entirely devoured by the consequences of their actions, leaving nothing behind. This serves as a sobering reminder of the seriousness of turning away from God and the inevitable judgment that follows.

Your blood will stain your own land
The phrase "your blood will stain your own land" speaks to the personal and national consequences of sin. In ancient Israel, the land was seen as a divine gift, a sacred inheritance from God. Bloodshed defiled the land, as seen in Numbers 35:33, which states that blood pollutes the land. This imagery conveys the idea that the violence and sin of the people have repercussions that affect not only individuals but also the community and the land itself. The land, once a place of blessing, becomes a witness to the people's rebellion and the resulting divine judgment.

You will not be remembered
To "not be remembered" in the biblical sense is to be erased from history, to have one's legacy and name forgotten. In the Hebrew culture, remembrance was tied to honor and legacy. Being forgotten was a fate worse than death, as it meant a complete severance from the community and from God's covenant promises. This phrase highlights the severity of the judgment: the people will not only face physical destruction but also a loss of identity and legacy. It serves as a warning about the ultimate consequence of persistent disobedience and rejection of God.

for I, the LORD, have spoken
This declaration underscores the authority and finality of God's word. When God speaks, His words are not just statements but decrees that will come to pass. The phrase "I, the LORD, have spoken" is a powerful affirmation of God's sovereignty and the certainty of His judgments. It reminds the reader that God's pronouncements are not to be taken lightly, as they are backed by His omnipotent will. This serves as both a warning and a call to repentance, emphasizing that God's words are true and will be fulfilled, urging the audience to heed His warnings and turn back to Him.

(32) Shalt be no more remembered.--Ammon should be utterly destroyed, as fuel in the fire; the life-blood of the nation should be poured out, and her name vanish. For her there should be no future, like that promised to Israel in Ezekiel 21:27.

Verse 32. - For Ammon there is no hope of a restoration like that which Ezekiel speaks of as possible for Jerusalem, and even for Sodom and Samaria. Its doom is written in the words, it shall be no more remembered (comp. Ezekiel 25:7).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You will be
תִּֽהְיֶה֙ (tih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

fuel
לְאָכְלָ֔ה (lə·’āḵ·lāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 402: Food, eating

for the fire.
לָאֵ֤שׁ (lā·’êš)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 784: A fire

Your blood
דָּמֵ֥ךְ (dā·mêḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

will stain
יִהְיֶ֖ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

your own
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

land.
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

You will not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

be remembered,
תִזָּכֵ֔רִי (ṯiz·zā·ḵê·rî)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

for
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I,
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

the LORD,
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

have spoken.’”
דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ (dib·bar·tî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue


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