Ezekiel 12:25

American Standard Version (1901)

For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י ׀ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֲדַבֵּר֙ אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲדַבֵּ֤ר דָּבָר֙ וְיֵ֣עָשֶׂ֔ה לֹ֥א תִמָּשֵׁ֖ךְ ע֑וֹד כִּ֣י בִֽימֵיכֶ֞ם בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֗רִי אֲדַבֵּ֤ר דָּבָר֙ וַעֲשִׂיתִ֔יו נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

Transliteration

For I YHWH ʾădabbēr ʾēṯ what ʾădabbēr dāḇār and-yēʿāśeh not timmāšēḵ again for in-yəmêḵem bêṯ hammerî ʾădabbēr dāḇār and-ʿăśîṯîw nəʾūm ʾădōnāy YHWH

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾădabbēr*: piel imperfect, 1st common singular - I will speak
• *dāḇār*: common noun, masculine singular - word/thing
• *yēʿāśeh*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be done
• *timmāšēḵ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it will be prolonged/delayed
• *yəmêḵem*: common noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your days
• *bêṯ* *hammerî*: construct chain with definite article - house of the rebellion
• *ʿăśîṯîw*: qal perfect, 1st common singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - I will do it
• *nəʾūm*: passive participle - declaration of

Word Meanings

• *dāḇār*: word/speech/thing/matter

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:11 : 11 so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
• Ezek 12:28 : 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: There shall none of my words be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Isa 14:24 : 24 Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Hab 1:5 : 5 Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
• Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
• Lam 2:17 : 17 Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; He hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
• Ezek 6:10 : 10 And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
• Ezek 12:1-2 : 1 The word of Jehovah also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
• Num 14:28-34 : 28 Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me, 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
• Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• Mark 13:30-31 : 30 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, until all these things be accomplished. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
• Luke 21:13 : 13 It shall turn out unto you for a testimony.
• Luke 21:33 : 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
• Dan 9:12 : 12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.