Ezekiel 33 · Verse 26

Ezekiel 33:26

Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:26, King James Version

Ezekiel 33:26 in other translations

BSBYou have relied on your swords, you have committed detestable acts, and each of you has defiled his neighbor’s wife. Should you then possess the land?’
WEBYou stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?”’
ASVYe stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?
YLTYe have stood on your sword, Ye have done abomination, Each the wife of his neighbour ye have defiled, And the land ye possess!
DARBYYe stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour's wife; and shall ye possess the land?
BBEYou put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?
WebsterYe stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?

What does Ezekiel 33:26 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
26. Ye stand upon your sword--Your dependence is, not on right and equity, but on force and arms. every one--Scarcely anyone refrains from adultery.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 26 Ye stand upon your sword - Ye live by plunder, rapine, and murder. Ye are every way impure; and shall ye possess the land? No.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 33:21-29

Those are unteachable indeed, who do not learn their dependence upon God, when all creature-comforts fail. Many claim an interest in the peculiar blessings to true believers, while their conduct proves them enemies of God. They call this groundless presumption strong faith, when God's testimony declares them entitled to his threatenings, and nothing else.

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Ezekiel 33:26 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עֲמַדְתֶּ֤ם'a.mad.Temyou have stoodH5975
עַֽל\־'al-onH5921
חַרְבְּכֶם֙char.be.Khemsword yourH2719
עֲשִׂיתֶ֣ן'a.si.Tenyou have doneH6213
תּוֹעֵבָ֔הto.'e.VahabominationH8441
וְאִ֛ישׁve.'Ishand everyoneH376
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
אֵ֥שֶׁת'E.shet[the] wife ofH802
רֵעֵ֖הוּre.'E.huneighbor hisH7453
טִמֵּאתֶ֑םti.me.Temyou have defiledH2930
וְהָאָ֖רֶץve.ha.'A.retzand the landH776
תִּירָֽשׁוּ\׃\ \סti.Ra.shuwill you possess?H3423

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 33:26

  • Micah 2:1-2

    Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Genesis 27:40

    And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

  • Zephaniah 3:3

    Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

  • Ezekiel 18:11-12

    And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour’s wife, Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

  • 1 Peter 4:3

    For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

  • Revelation 21:27

    And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

  • Leviticus 20:22

    Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.

  • Deuteronomy 4:25-26

    When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

  • 1 Kings 11:5-7

    For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father. Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

  • Joshua 23:15-16

    Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you. When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

  • Psalms 94:20-21

    Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Ezekiel 22:9-11

    In thee are men that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon the mountains: in the midst of thee they commit lewdness. In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution. And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
stand.
Ge 27:40; Mic 2:1,2; Zep 3:3
work.
18:12; Le 18:26-30; 20:13; 1Ki 11:5-7; 1Pe 4:3; Re 21:8,27
and ye.
18:6,11,15; 22:9-11; Jer 5:8,9
and shall.
Le 18:25,28; 20:22; De 4:25,26; 29:18-23; Jos 23:15,16; 1Sa 2:30
Ps 50:16-20; 94:20,21

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Context

  • Ezekiel 33:25

    Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

  • Ezekiel 33:26

    Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?

  • Ezekiel 33:27

    Say thou thus unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; As I live, surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by the sword, and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured, and they that be in the forts and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

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Ezekiel 33:26 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Estuvisteis sobre vuestras espadas, hicisteis abominación, y contaminasteis cada cual la mujer de su prójimo: ¿y habréis de poseer la tierra?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous vous roidissez sur votre épée, vous commettez des abominations, et vous rendez impure, chacun de vous, la femme de son prochain: et vous hériteriez le pays?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ihr steifet euch auf euer Schwert, verübet Greuel und verunreiniget einer des anderen Weib, und ihr solltet das Land besitzen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
stetistis in gladiis vestris, fecistis abominationes, et unusquisque uxorem proximi sui polluit: et terram hæreditate possidebitis?