Ezekiel 12:5
What does Ezekiel 12:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 12:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Before their eyes dig for thee through the wall, and thou hast brought forth by it.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
Context
v.4And thou shalt bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and thou shalt go forth thyself at even in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
v.5This passage
v.6In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 25:4
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
- Jeremiah 39:2
in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
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