◄ Ezekiel 12:5 ►
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Good News Translation
While they are watching, break a hole through the wall of your house and take your pack out through it.

New Revised Standard Version
Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry the baggage through it.

Contemporary English Version
Dig through the wall of your house and crawl out, carrying the bag with you. Make sure everyone is watching.

New American Bible
While they watch, dig a hole through the wall and go out through it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.

Dig thou [heb] Dig for thee.

2 Kings 25:4 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness.

Jeremiah 39:2-4 And in the eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened. . . .

Context
Signs of the Coming Captivity
…4And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling. 5Dig thee a way through the wall before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth through it.6In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men's shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of Israel.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 12:4
And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture as the furniture of one that is removing by day in their sight: and thou shalt go forth in the evening in their presence, as one goeth forth that removeth his dwelling.

Ezekiel 12:6
In their sight thou shalt be carried out upon men's shoulders, thou shalt be carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover thy face, and shalt not see the ground: for I have set thee for a sign of things to come to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 12:4
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