“Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their abominations which they have committed.”’”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezekiel 33 contains 33 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.