Ezekiel 33:26
New International Version
You rely on your sword, you do detestable things, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’

New Living Translation
Murderers! Idolaters! Adulterers! Should the land belong to you?’

English Standard Version
You rely on the sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?

Berean Standard Bible
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’

King James Bible
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

New King James Version
You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?” ’

New American Standard Bible
You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?”’

NASB 1995
“You rely on your sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?"’

NASB 1977
“You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’”

Legacy Standard Bible
You stand on account of your sword, you do abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?”’

Amplified Bible
You rely on your sword [as your security]; you commit outrageous and disgraceful acts and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Should you then take possession of the land?”’

Christian Standard Bible
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then receive possession of the land? ’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then receive possession of the land?”

American Standard Version
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

Contemporary English Version
and spread violence throughout the land. Everything you do is wicked; you are even unfaithful in marriage. And you claim the land is yours!

English Revised Version
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You rely on your swords. You do disgusting things. You dishonor your neighbor's wife. Should the land be given to you?'

Good News Translation
You rely on your swords. Your actions are disgusting. Everyone commits adultery. What makes you think that the land is yours?

International Standard Version
You keep trusting in your weapons, you continue to commit loathsome deeds, men keep defiling their neighbors' wives, and you're going to take possession of the land?'

Majority Standard Bible
You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor?s wife. Should you then possess the land??

NET Bible
You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Will you possess the land?'

New Heart English Bible
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?"'

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

World English Bible
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You have stood on your sword, "" You have done abomination, "" You have each defiled the wife of his neighbor, "" Should you then possess the land?

Young's Literal Translation
Ye have stood on your sword, Ye have done abomination, Each the wife of his neighbour ye have defiled, And the land ye possess!

Smith's Literal Translation
Ye stood upon your sword, ye did abomination, and ye defiled each his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbour's wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Catholic Public Domain Version
You stood by your swords, you committed abominations, and each one has defiled his neighbor’s wife. And will you possess the land as an inheritance?

New American Bible
You rely on your swords, you commit abominations, each defiles his neighbor’s wife—yet you would keep possession of the land?

New Revised Standard Version
You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
You rely on your swords, you commit abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife; and do you expect to inherit the land?

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
You live by your swords and you practice abomination, and each man of you defiles the wife of his neighbor, and do you seek to inherit the land?’
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Word of Jerusalem's Fall
25Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? 26You have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’ 27Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.…

Cross References
Leviticus 18:24-30
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. / Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. / But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. ...

Jeremiah 7:9-10
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Isaiah 59:2-8
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear. / For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice. / No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity. ...

Micah 2:1-2
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. / They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.

Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! / Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Amos 2:6-8
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals. / They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name. / They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

Psalm 50:16-21
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? / For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. / When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. ...

Jeremiah 5:26-29
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men. / Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich. / They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. ...

Isaiah 1:15-17
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. / Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! / Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”

Proverbs 1:29-31
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD. / They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. / So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Romans 1:28-32
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. / They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, / slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. ...

James 4:1-4
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? / You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. / And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. ...

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 15:18-20
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. / For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander. / These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”


Treasury of Scripture

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

stand

Genesis 27:40
And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

Micah 2:1,2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand…

Zephaniah 3:3
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

work

Ezekiel 18:12
Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

Leviticus 18:26-30
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: …

Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

and ye

Ezekiel 18:6,11,15
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman, …

Ezekiel 22:9-11
In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness…

Jeremiah 5:8,9
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife…

and shall

Leviticus 18:25,28
And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants…

Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

Deuteronomy 4:25,26
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: …

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Ezekiel 33
1. According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people
7. Ezekiel is admonished of his duty
10. God shows the justice of his ways toward the penitent and toward revolters
17. He maintains his justice
21. Upon the news of the taking of Jerusalem
25. he prophecies the desolation of the land
30. God's judgment upon the mockers of the prophets














You rely on your sword
This phrase highlights the misplaced trust of the Israelites in their own military might and weapons rather than in God. The Hebrew root for "rely" (בָּטַח, batach) conveys a sense of trust or confidence. Historically, Israel often found itself tempted to depend on its own strength or alliances with other nations instead of relying on God. This reliance on the sword symbolizes a broader spiritual issue of self-reliance and pride, which is contrary to the biblical call to trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5-6).

you commit abominations
The term "abominations" (תּוֹעֵבוֹת, to'evot) refers to actions that are detestable or repugnant to God. In the context of Ezekiel, these abominations often included idolatry and moral corruption. The historical context of Ezekiel's ministry was a time when Israel was deeply entrenched in idolatrous practices, which were considered abominable because they violated the covenant relationship with God. This phrase serves as a stark reminder of the spiritual adultery that led to Israel's downfall.

and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife
This phrase addresses the sin of adultery, which was rampant among the Israelites. The Hebrew word for "defiles" (טָמֵא, tame) implies making something unclean or impure. Adultery not only breaks the marital covenant but also defiles the community's moral fabric. In the conservative Christian perspective, this highlights the importance of fidelity and purity in relationships, reflecting the sanctity of marriage as ordained by God (Hebrews 13:4).

Should you then possess the land?
This rhetorical question challenges the Israelites' sense of entitlement to the Promised Land despite their sinful behavior. The land was a gift from God, contingent upon their obedience and faithfulness to His commandments. The historical context reveals that the Israelites' continued disobedience led to their exile, fulfilling the warnings given by the prophets. This question serves as a call to repentance and a reminder that blessings are tied to covenant faithfulness. In a broader spiritual sense, it underscores the principle that God's promises are often conditional upon our obedience and alignment with His will.

(26) Ye stand upon your sword.--Not to engage in war, which cannot here be thought of, but to take part in individual crimes of violence.

Verse 26. - Ye stand upon your sword. The words point to the open assertion of the law that might is right. Men relied on the sword, and on that only, for their support. Assassinations, as in Jeremiah 41, were, so to speak, as the order of the day. Ye work abomination. The noun, Ezekiel's ever-recurring word, indicates both the act of idolatry and the foul orgiastic rites that accompanied it. The verb, curiously enough, has the feminine suffix. Was it used intentionally, either as pointing to the prominence of women in those rites (Jeremiah 44:15), or to the degrading vices which involved the loss of true manhood (2 Kings 23:7)? So some have thought; but I agree with Keil, Smend, and others, in seeing only an error of transcription. Once more, after heaping up his accusations, Ezekiel asks the question, "Shall ye possess the land?" "Are you the seed of Abraham?"

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You have relied
עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם (‘ă·maḏ·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5975: To stand, in various relations

on
עַֽל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

your swords,
חַרְבְּכֶם֙ (ḥar·bə·ḵem)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

you have committed
עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ן (‘ă·śî·ṯen)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

detestable acts,
תּוֹעֵבָ֔ה (tō·w·‘ê·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol

and each
וְאִ֛ישׁ (wə·’îš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of you has defiled
טִמֵּאתֶ֑ם (ṭim·mê·ṯem)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

his neighbor’s
רֵעֵ֖הוּ (rê·‘ê·hū)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7453: Friend, companion, fellow

wife.
אֵ֥שֶׁת (’ê·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

Should you then possess
תִּירָֽשׁוּ׃ (tî·rā·šū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

the land?’
וְהָאָ֖רֶץ (wə·hā·’ā·reṣ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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