Ezekiel 20:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהֵבֵאתִ֣י אֶתְכֶ֔ם אֶל־מִדְבַּ֖ר הָֽעַמִּ֑ים וְנִשְׁפַּטְתִּ֤י אִתְּכֶם֙ שָׁ֔ם פָּנִ֖ים אֶל־פָּנִֽים׃

Transliteration

wəhēḇēʾṯî ʾeṯḵem ʾel-miḏbar hāʿammîm wənišpaṭtî ʾittəḵem šām pānîm ʾel-pānîm

Grammar Details

• *wəhēḇēʾṯî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st singular - and I will bring
• *ʾeṯḵem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
• *ʾel*: preposition - to
• *miḏbar*: noun, masculine singular construct - wilderness/desert of
• *hāʿammîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the peoples
• *wənišpaṭtî*: conjunction + niphal perfect, 1st singular - and I will enter into judgment
• *ʾittəḵem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - with you
• *šām*: adverb - there
• *pānîm*: noun, masculine plural - face

Word Meanings

• *wəhēḇēʾṯî*: and I will bring/and I will lead/and I will cause to enter
• *miḏbar*: wilderness/desert/uninhabited place
• *hāʿammîm*: the peoples/the nations/populations
• *wənišpaṭtî*: and I will enter into judgment/and I will contend/and I will execute judgment
• *pānîm* *ʾel*-*pānîm*: face to face/directly/in person [idiom for direct confrontation]

Referenced Verses

• Hos 2:14 : 14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
• Ezek 17:20 : 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.
• Ezek 19:13 : 13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
• Ezek 20:36 : 36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
• 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.
• Jer 2:9 : 9 Wherefore I will yet contend with you, saith Jehovah, and with your children's children will I contend.
• Ezek 38:8 : 8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
• Ezek 38:22 : 22 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.
• Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Mic 4:10 : 10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and shalt dwell in the field, and shalt come even unto Babylon: there shalt thou be rescued; there will Jehovah redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.
• Mic 6:1-2 : 1 Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. 2 Hear, O ye mountains, Jehovah's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
• Mic 7:13-15 : 13 Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings. 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15 As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.
• Rev 12:14 : 14 And there were given to the woman the two wings of the great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness unto her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.