33:21 我們被擄之後十二年十月初五日，有人從耶路撒冷逃到我這裡，說：「城已攻破。」
33:22 逃來的人未到前一日的晚上，耶和華的靈（原文是手）降在我身上，開我的口。到第二日早晨，那人來到我這裡，我口就開了，不再緘默。
33:23 耶和華的話臨到我說：
33:24 「人子啊，住在以色列荒廢之地的人說：『亞伯拉罕獨自一人能得這地為業，我們人數眾多，這地更是給我們為業的。』
33:25 所以你要對他們說，主耶和華如此說：你們吃帶血的物，仰望偶像，並且殺人流血，你們還能得這地為業嗎？
33:26 你們倚仗自己的刀劍行可憎的事，人人玷污鄰舍的妻，你們還能得這地為業嗎？
33:27 你要對他們這樣說，主耶和華如此說：我指著我的永生起誓，在荒場中的，必倒在刀下；在田野間的，必交給野獸吞吃；在保障和洞裡的，必遭瘟疫而死。
33:28 我必使這地荒涼，令人驚駭；她因勢力而有的驕傲也必止息。以色列的山都必荒涼，無人經過。
33:29 我因他們所行一切可憎的事使地荒涼，令人驚駭。那時，他們就知道我是耶和華。」
In the twelfth year of our exile, in the
tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to
me and said, “The city has been struck down.”
Now the hand of the Lord had been upon me the evening before the
fugitive came; and he had opened my mouth by the time the man came to me in the
morning, so my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.
The
word of the Lord came to me: “Son of
man, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying,
Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land; but we are many;
the land is surely given us to possess.’
Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord God: You eat flesh with the blood
and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the
land? You rely on the sword, you commit
abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then
possess the land? Say this to them, Thus
says the Lord God: As I live, surely those who are in the waste places shall
fall by the sword, and whoever is in the open field I will give to the beasts
to be devoured, and those who are in strongholds and in caves shall die by
pestilence. And I will make the land a desolation
and a waste, and her proud might shall come to an end, and the mountains of
Israel shall be so desolate that none will pass through. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when
I have made the land a desolation and a waste because of all their abominations
that they have committed.
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以西結於妻子死後處於一種「啞口」的狀態。在這裡上帝使以西結重新開口說話，正如他所描述：「耶和華的靈（原文是手）降在我身上，開我的口。到第二日早晨，那人來到我這裡，我口就開了，不再緘默。」
以西結一開口就給留在猶大地區以色列人的預言：他們一定不能繼承以色列地。因為他們延續以前拜偶像的習慣，為了逃命不顧猶太人潔淨的禮儀，仗著自己手中的武器迫害那些更無助的人。
上帝多次提醒以色列人可以進入迦南地並非因為以色列人夠好、夠正義，而是因為迦南地原住民的罪惡。因此這些剩餘的人想要繼承迦南地，也要看看自己的行為是否離開迦南地原住民的罪惡。
今日我們成為基督徒，一樣要靠上帝所賜的聖靈來離棄罪惡，行在上帝為我們預備公義的路上，才能與我們所領受的救恩相稱，得上帝喜悅來榮耀主名！才可以承受上帝國。
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