Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?
A refugee brought the news a year and five months after Jerusalem burned, though the prophet had surely heard it sooner through steady commerce between Babylon and the ruins. Yet this eyewitness account was different: a man who escaped the flames himself could speak with particularity and real feeling of what he had seen, fulfilling the sign God gave that one would come to make him hear it with his own ears.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 33:21-29
Say thou thus unto them, thus saith the Lord God,.... Send or write unto them in the name of the Lord, after this manner, as I live, which is the form of an oath; the Lord swears by himself his life, because he could swear by no greater, and for the confirmation of what follows: surely they that are in the wastes shall fall by...
eat with the blood--in opposition to the law (Lev 19:26; compare Gen 9:4). They did so as an idolatrous rite.