Ezekiel 12:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁰ The inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

²¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ²² Mortal, what is this proverb of yours about the land of Israel, which says, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision comes to nothing’?