| Verse | Translation | Text |
| Eze 12:23 | Strong Concordance | Tell [0559] them therefore, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; I will make this proverb [04912] to cease [07673], and they shall no more use it as a proverb [04911] in Israel [03478]; but say [01696] unto them, The days [03117] are at hand [07126], and the effect [01697] of every vision [02377]. |
| King James | Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. |
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| effect--literally, "the word," namely, fulfilled; that is, the effective fulfilment of whatever the prophets have spoken is at hand. |