Ezekiel 20:38

American Standard Version (1901)

and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבָרוֹתִ֣י מִכֶּ֗ם הַמֹּרְדִ֤ים וְהַפּֽוֹשְׁעִים֙ בִּ֔י מֵאֶ֤רֶץ מְגֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ אוֹצִ֣יא אוֹתָ֔ם וְאֶל־אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יָב֑וֹא וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

ûḇārôṯî mikkem hammōrəḏîm wəhappôšəʿîm bî mēʾereṣ məḡûrêhem ʾôṣîʾ ʾôṯām wəʾel-ʾaḏmaṯ yiśrāʾēl lōʾ yāḇôʾ wîḏaʿtem kî-ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ûḇārôṯî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will purge/separate
• *mikkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - from you
• *hammōrəḏîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the rebels/those who rebel
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: conjunction + definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - and the transgressors
• *bî*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me
• *mēʾereṣ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - from land of
• *məḡûrêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their sojournings
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will bring out
• *ʾôṯām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *wəʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and to/into
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: noun, feminine singular construct - soil/land of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yāḇôʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will enter/come
• *wîḏaʿtem*: conjunction + qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
• *kî*: conjunction - that
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name

Word Meanings

• *ûḇārôṯî*: and I will purge/and I will separate/and I will clear away
• *hammōrəḏîm*: the rebels/those who are rebellious/those who revolt
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: and the transgressors/and those who sin/and those who transgress
• *məḡûrêhem*: their sojournings/their dwelling places/their habitations
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: I will bring out/I will lead out/I will extract
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: soil of/land of/ground of
• *yāḇôʾ*: he will enter/he will come/they will come [subject may be collective]

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 13:9 : 9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
• Ps 95:11 : 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
• Amos 9:9-9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.
• Zech 13:8-9 : 8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• Mal 3:3 : 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah offerings in righteousness.
• Mal 4:1-3 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• Matt 25:32-33 : 32 and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; 33 and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
• Ezek 6:7 : 7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
• Ezek 11:21 : 21 But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Ezek 15:7 : 7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 23:49 : 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
• Ezek 34:17-22 : 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats. 18 Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet? 19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad; 22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
• Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved: 28 for the Lord will execute [his] word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short. 29 And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• Heb 4:3 : 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said, As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
• Heb 4:6 : 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
• Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
• Matt 3:9-9 : 9 and think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. 10 And even now the axe lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
• Num 14:28-30 : 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.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {{Higgaion. Selah