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Ezekiel 21:32
You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses a pronoun "you" immediately after declaring He will pour out His anger and hand the target over to brutal men skilled in destruction.
The words — תִּהְיֶה (tih.Yeh) = you will become and אָכְלָה ('okh.Lah) = fuel. The text states the target will become fuel for the fire and their blood will remain in the midst of the land.
The thread — The motif of fire as divine judgment and blood staining the land appears in Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 25:10, and Malachi 4:1. These passages trace a consistent pattern where God's fury consumes the proud and leaves the accused in ruin.
Why it lands — The verse demands acknowledgment that the speaker’s declaration guarantees the target’s complete destruction and permanent erasure from memory.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the Lord have spoken it.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 25:10 I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
- Malachi 4:1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Ezekiel 20:47 Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Isaiah 34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
- Ezekiel 21:30 Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Matthew 3:10 The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.