Ezekiel 20:47-49

New English Translation

⁴⁷ and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Listen to the Lord’s message! This is what the Sovereign Lord has said: Look here,^[a] I am about to start a fire in you,^[b] and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it. ⁴⁸ And everyone^[c] will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

⁴⁹ Then I said, “O Sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”