Ezekiel 24:26-27

24:26 On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news. 1  24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; 2  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 33:21-22

The Fall of Jerusalem

33:21 In the twelfth year of our exile, in the tenth month, on the fifth of the month, 3  a refugee came to me from Jerusalem 4  saying, “The city has been defeated!” 5  33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me 6  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord 7  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived 8  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. 9 

1 tn Heb “to make the ears hear.”

2 tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

3 tn January 19, 585 b.c.

4 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

5 tn Heb “smitten.”

4 tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

5 tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

7 sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).