²⁰The word of the Lord came to me: ²¹“Son of man, set your face against^a Sidon;^b prophesy against her ²²and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“ ‘I am against you, Sidon,

and among you I will display my glory.^c

You will know that I am the Lord,

when I inflict punishment^d on you

and within you am proved to be holy.^e

²³I will send a plague upon you

and make blood flow in your streets.

The slain will fall within you,

with the sword against you on every side.

Then you will know that I am the Lord.^f

²⁴“ ‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.^g Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

²⁵“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather^h the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,ⁱ I will be proved holy^j through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.^k ²⁶They will live there in safety^l and will build houses and plant^m vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishmentⁿ on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.^o’ ”

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Cross references

aSee Eze 13:17
bSee Ge 10:15; See Jer 25:22
c Eze 39:13
d Eze 30:19
eSee Lev 10:3
fSee Eze 5:17; 38:22
gSee Isa 5:6; See Eze 2:6
h Ps 106:47; Jer 32:37
iSee Isa 11:12
jSee Eze 20:41
k Jer 12:15; 23:8; See Eze 11:17; 34:27; 37:25
lSee Lev 25:18; See 1 Ki 4:25; See Jer 17:25
mSee Dt 20:6
nSee Ps 149:9
oSee Isa 65:21; See Jer 32:15; Eze 38:8; 39:26–27; Hos 2:15; 11:11; Am 9:14–15