Ezekiel 38:22

American Standard Version (1901)

And with pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִשְׁפַּטְתִּ֥י אִתּ֖וֹ בְּדֶ֣בֶר וּבְדָ֑ם וְגֶ֣שֶׁם שׁוֹטֵף֩ וְאַבְנֵ֨י אֶלְגָּבִ֜ישׁ אֵ֣שׁ וְגָפְרִ֗ית אַמְטִ֤יר עָלָיו֙ וְעַל־אֲגַפָּ֔יו וְעַל־עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִתּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

wə-nišpaṭtî with-him with-deḇer û-ḇəḏām, and-ḡešem šôṭēp̄ wə-ʾaḇnê ʾelgāḇîš ʾēš wə-ḡop̄rîṯ ʾamṭîr upon-him and-upon-ʾăḡappāyw and-upon-ʿammîm rabbîm that with-him

Grammar Details

• *wə-nišpaṭtî*: niphal perfect, 1st person singular with conjunction - and I will enter into judgment
• *ʾittô*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - with him
• *bə-deḇer*: preposition with common noun, masculine singular - with pestilence
• *û-ḇəḏām*: conjunction with preposition and common noun, masculine singular - and with blood
• *wə-ḡešem*: conjunction with common noun, masculine singular - and rain
• *šôṭēp̄*: qal participle, masculine singular - flooding/overflowing
• *wə-ʾaḇnê*: conjunction with common noun, feminine plural construct - and stones of
• *ʾelgāḇîš*: common noun, masculine singular - hail
• *ʾēš*: common noun, feminine singular - fire
• *wə-ḡop̄rîṯ*: conjunction with common noun, feminine singular - and brimstone/sulfur
• *ʾamṭîr*: hiphil imperfect, 1st person singular - I will rain down
• *ʿālāyw*: preposition with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - upon him
• *wə-ʿal-ʾăḡappāyw*: conjunction with preposition and common noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and upon his bands/hordes
• *wə-ʿal-ʿammîm*: conjunction with preposition and common noun, masculine plural - and upon peoples
• *rabbîm*: adjective, masculine plural - many
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - that/who

Word Meanings

• *nišpaṭtî*: enter into judgment/contend/execute judgment
• *ʾaḇnê ʾelgāḇîš*: hailstones/stones of ice/great hailstones
• *ḡop̄rîṯ*: brimstone/sulfur

Referenced Verses

• Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
• Ps 18:12-14 : 12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire. 13 Jehovah also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered his voice, Hailstones and coals of fire. 14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
• Isa 66:16 : 16 For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
• Jer 25:31 : 31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah.
• Ezek 13:11 : 11 say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
• Rev 16:21 : 21 And great hail, [every stone] about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding great.
• Zech 14:12-15 : 12 And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor. 14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance. 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.
• Ezek 5:17 : 17 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
• Isa 29:6 : 6 She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
• Isa 30:30-33 : 30 And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones. 31 For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite [him] . 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with [the sound of] tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing [of his arm] will he fight with them. 33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
• Ps 77:16-18 : 16 The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled. 17 The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad. 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.
• Gen 19:24 : 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
• Exod 9:22-25 : 22 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
• Josh 10:11 : 11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
• Matt 7:27 : 27 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.