Ezekiel 12:25

because I, the LORD, will speak whatever word I speak, and it will be fulfilled without delay. For in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak a message and bring it to pass, declares the Lord GOD.’”

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — Yahweh speaks through Ezekiel to the "rebellious house" of Israel, closing a prophetic unit (v. 24) in which false visions and flattering divinations are declared finished.

The words — אֲדַבֵּר ('adaber, "I will speak") appears twice, bracketing the object דָּבָר (davar, "word"); the construction is not "I will speak a word" generically but "the word that I speak" — a specific, identified utterance whose fulfillment is guaranteed.

The thread — The same logic runs through Isaiah 14:24 ("as I have planned, so will it be"), Isaiah 55:11 (the word will not return empty), and Habakkuk 1:5, which shares the "in your days" formula almost verbatim.

Why it lands — The verse collapses the distance between proclamation and execution: there is no interval in which the word can fail. The reader is named inside the "rebellious house," so the urgency is not future but present.

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The Hebrew words

King James Version

For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.

Cross-references

Isaiah 14:24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
Isaiah 55:11 so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
Habakkuk 1:5 “Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.’”
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Ezekiel 12:1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Ezekiel 6:10 And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.
Jeremiah 16:9 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Lamentations 2:17 The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.