Ezekiel 13:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against your bands with which you hunt lives; I will tear them from your arms and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.

Cross References

Ezekiel 13:18

and say: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

Ezekiel 13:21

I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands; they shall no longer be prey in your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord.