Ezekiel 33:26

Easy-to-Read Version

You depend on your own sword. Each of you does terrible things. Each of you commits sexual sins with his neighbor's wife, so you cannot have the land!'

Parallel Translations

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?’

Hebrew Names Version
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

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

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?

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?"'

New Century Version
You depend on your sword and do terrible things which I hate. Each of you has sexual relations with his neighbor's wife. So should you have 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?"'

World English Bible
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye leane vpon your swordes: ye worke abomination, and yee defile euery one his neighbours wife: should ye then possesse the land?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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?"'

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?'

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!

Complete Jewish Bible
You depend on your swords, you commit disgusting practices, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife — and you still expect to possess the land?'

Darby Translation
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?

George Lamsa Translation
You rely on your swords, you commit abomination, and you defile every one his neighbors wife; and do you expect to inherit the land?

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

Lexham English Bible
You rely on your sword, you do a detestable thing, and each man defiles the wife of his neighbor, and yet you want to take possession of the land?"'

Literal Translation
You stand on your sword, and you each do abominations, defiling his neighbor's wife. And shall you possess the land?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye leane vpon youre sweardes, ye worke abhominacions, euery one defyleth his neghbours wife: and shal ye then possesse the londe?

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?

Bible in Basic English
You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?

King James Version (1611)
Yee stand vpon your sword; yee worke abomination, and ye defile euery one his neighbours wife, and shall ye possesse the land?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye leane vpon your swordes, ye worke abhominations, euery one defileth his neighbours wyfe: and shall ye then possesse the lande?

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?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye stoden in youre swerdis, ye diden youre abhomynaciouns, and ech man defoulide the wijf of his neiybore; and schulen ye welde the lond bi eritage?

Update Bible Version
You stand on your sword, you do disgusting things, and you defile every one 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?

New English Translation
You rely on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor's wife. Will you 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 Living Translation
Murderers! Idolaters! Adulterers! Should the land belong to you?'

New Life Bible
You trust in your sword, and keep on sinning. Each of you does sex sins with his neighbor's wife. Should the land belong to you?"'

New Revised Standard
You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye men have taken your stand by your sword. Ye women have wrought abomination, And every man - with the wife of his neighbour, have ye defiled yourselves; And the land, shall ye inherit?

Douay-Rheims Bible
You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbours wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Revised Standard Version
You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall 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!

Contextual Overview

²¹ On the fifth day of the tenth month in the twelfth year of exile, a person who had escaped from the battle in Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been taken!" ²² The evening before that person came to me, the power of the Lord came on me. The Lord opened my mouth. So when that person came, I could speak again. ²³ Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said, ²⁴ "Son of man, there are Israelites who live in the ruined cities in Israel. They are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, and God gave him all this land. Now, we are many people, so surely this land belongs to us! It is our land!' ²⁵ "You must tell them that this is what the Lord God says: ‘You eat meat with the blood still in it. You look to your idols for help. You murder people, so why should I give you this land? ²⁶ You depend on your own sword. Each of you does terrible things. Each of you commits sexual sins with his neighbor's wife, so you cannot have the land!' ²⁷ "‘You must tell them that this is what the Lord God says: "By my life, I promise that the people living in the ruined cities will be killed with a sword! If any people are out in the country, I will let animals kill and eat them. If people are hiding in the fortresses and the caves, they will die from disease. ²⁸ I will make the land empty and a waste. That country will lose all the things it was proud of. The mountains of Israel will become empty. No one will pass through that place. ²⁹ The people have done many terrible things, so I will make that place an empty wasteland. Then they will know that I am the Lord ."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stand: Genesis 27:40, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2, Zephaniah 3:3

work: Ezekiel 18:12, Leviticus 18:26-30, Leviticus 20:13, 1 Kings 11:5-7, 1 Peter 4:3, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 21:27

and ye: Ezekiel 18:6, Ezekiel 18:11, Ezekiel 18:15, Ezekiel 22:9-11, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 5:9

and shall: Leviticus 18:25, Leviticus 18:28, Leviticus 20:22, Deuteronomy 4:25, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 29:18-23, Joshua 23:15, Joshua 23:16, 1 Samuel 2:30, Psalms 50:16-20, Psalms 94:20, Psalms 94:21

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 33:8 - so that they Jeremiah 7:9 - steal Ezekiel 7:13 - neither Ezekiel 34:3 - ye kill

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 26 Ye stand upon your sword,.... You trust in it, and think to support yourselves by it, and secure your possession and right of it by that means. So the Targum,

"you stand in your strength:''

ye work abomination; that which is abominable to God, and not fit to be named among men; Jarchi interprets it of sodomy: the word is in the feminine gender, and may be rendered, "ye women work abomination"; referring to that unnatural lust the apostle speaks of, Romans 1:26 so Ben Melech:

and ye defile everyone his neighbour's wife; were guilty of adultery; and which was so common, that scarce any were free from it, and therefore is charged upon the whole body of them:

and shall ye possess the land? such vile creatures as these, guilty of the abominations for which the land formerly spewed out its ancient inhabitants, the Canaanites? and the present possessors might expect the same, as being very unworthy inheritors of it, whatever high thoughts they might have of themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The exhortation to repentance. Ezekiel first addresses the remnant that still linger in their ancient home, and warns them against presumptuous hopes resting on false grounds Ezekiel 33:23-29; then he turns his eyes to those near him, and points out that their apparent attention to his words was illusory.

Ezekiel 33:24

Those wastes - The places in the holy land devastated by the conqueror.

Abraham - The argument is, Abraham was but one man, and he had the promise of the land, though he did not at once possess it; much more shall we, the descendants of Abraham, being many, retain this promise and possess the land, though for a time we are depressed and subject. Compare Matthew 3:9; John 8:33, John 8:39.

Ezekiel 33:25

To eat flesh with the blood was forbidden (see the marginal references). It seems to have been connected with the idolatries of Canaan. The prohibition was, on account of its connection with idolatry, continued in the enactment of the Council of Jerusalem Acts 15:29.

Ezekiel 33:26

Ye stand upon your sword - Ye put your trust in your swords.

Ezekiel 33:30-33

God warns the prophet against being misled by the compliance of the people.

Ezekiel 33:30

Against thee - Rather, about “thee.” “by the walls” Rather, within “the walls.”

Ezekiel 33:31

As the people cometh - literally, as in the margin, i. e., in crowds. Render it: they shall come “unto thee” like the coming of a people,” and” shall “sit before thee as My people” etc., i. e., they assume the attitude of God’s people listening to His prophet. Compare Ezekiel 14:1; Ezekiel 20:1.

Ezekiel 33:33

And when this - But when this.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 33:26. Ye stand upon your sword — Ye live by plunder, rapine, and murder. Ye are every way impure; and shall ye possess the land? No.