Ezekiel 21:26

the Lord Yahweh says this to you: Remove the turban and take off the crown! Things will no longer be the same! Exalt the lowly and humble the exalted! 1

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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.

In Context

25As for you, profane and wicked ruler of Israel, whose day of punishment has come, and whose time of committing iniquity has ended, 1

27A ruin! A ruin! I will make it a ruin! It will not be restored until the one comes who is assigned to execute judgment.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:7Yahweh makes some people poor and some rich. 1 He humbles, but he also lifts up. 1

2 Kings 25:27It happened later in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Awel-Marduk king of Babylon released Jehoiachin king of Judah from prison. This happened in the year that Awel-Marduk began to reign.

Psalms 113:7He raises up the poor out of the dirt 1 and lifts up the needy from the ash heap, 1

Jeremiah 13:18“Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Come down from your thrones, 1 for your splendid crowns have fallen from your heads.' 1

Jeremiah 52:9They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he passed sentence on him.

Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head; 1 woe to us, for we have sinned! 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 21:19-28

Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 592.) 18 The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, 19 Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city. 20 Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced. 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination:… Read the whole commentary →

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