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29 while seeing false visions about you
and reading lying omens about you[a]
to place you[b] on the necks of the profane wicked,[c]
whose day has come,
the time of final punishment.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:29 tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.
  2. Ezekiel 21:29 tn The antecedent for you is the sword mentioned in v. 28.
  3. Ezekiel 21:29 sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked Ammonites, despite their efforts to prevent it.

29 Despite false visions concerning you
    and lying divinations(A) about you,
it will be laid on the necks
    of the wicked who are to be slain,
whose day has come,
    whose time of punishment has reached its climax.(B)

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