Ezekiel 4:7
Good News Translation
"Fix your eyes on the siege of Jerusalem. Shake your fist at the city and prophesy against it.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and with your arm bared you shall prophesy against it.

Contemporary English Version
The brick stands for Jerusalem, so attack it! Stare at it and shout angry warnings.

New American Bible
Turning your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with bared arm you shall prophesy against it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.

set

Ezekiel 4:3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face resolutely against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a sign to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them.

and thine

Isaiah 52:10 The Lord hath prepared his holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Context
A Sign of Jerusalem's Siege
6And when thou hast accomplished this, thou shalt sleep again upon thy right side, and thou shalt take upon thee the iniquity of the house of Juda forty days: a day for a year, yea, a day for a year I have appointed to thee. 7And thou shalt turn thy face to the siege of Jerusalem and thy arm shall be stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy against it.8Behold I have encompassed thee with bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself from one side to the other, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:

Daniel 11:17
And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright conditions with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him.

Ezekiel 4:6
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