Ezekiel 7:23

(Make the chain, ¹  because the land is full of murder ²  and the city is full of violence.)

biblegateway Eze 7:23

"Prepare chains, because the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of violence.

biblegateway Eze 7:23

‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

biblegateway Eze 7:23

"Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.

biblegateway Eze 7:23

A bloody massacre, as crime and violence fill the city.

SABDAweb Eze 7:23

Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

bibleoremus Eze 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

biblegateway Eze 7:23

‘Make a chain, For the land is filled with crimes of blood, And the city is full of violence.

biblegateway Eze 7:23

(Make the chain, ¹  because the land is full of murder ²  and the city is full of violence.)

¹ tc The Hebrew word “the chain” occurs only here in the OT. The reading of the LXX (“and they will make carnage”) seems to imply a Hebrew text of ַהבַּתּוֹק (habbattoq, “disorder, slaughter”) instead of הָרַתּוֹק (haratoq, “the chain”). The LXX is also translating the verb as a third person plural future and taking this as the end of the preceding verse. As M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:154) notes, this may refer to a chain for a train of exiles but “the context does not speak of exile but of the city’s fall. The versions guess desperately and we can do little better.”

² tn Heb “judgment for blood,” i.e., indictment or accountability for bloodshed. The word for “judgment” does not appear in the similar phrase in 9:9.