Ezekiel 28:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן הִנְנִ֨י מֵבִ֤יא עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ זָרִ֔ים עָרִיצֵ֖י גּוֹיִ֑ם וְהֵרִ֤יקוּ חַרְבוֹתָם֙ עַל־יְפִ֣י חָכְמָתֶ֔ךָ וְחִלְּל֖וּ יִפְעָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

lāḵēn hinənî mēḇîʾ ʿāleḵā zārîm ʿārîṣê gôyim wə-hērîqû ḥarḇôtām ʿal-yəp̄î ḥoḵmāteḵā wə-ḥillēlû yip̄ʿāteḵā

Grammar Details

• *lāḵēn*: adverb - therefore
• *hinənî*: interjection + 1st person singular suffix - behold me/I am
• *mēḇîʾ*: hiphil participle masculine singular - bringing
• *ʿāleḵā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - against you
• *zārîm*: adjective masculine plural - strangers/foreigners
• *ʿārîṣê*: adjective masculine plural construct - terrible/ruthless ones of
• *gôyim*: noun masculine plural - nations
• *wə-hērîqû*: conjunction + hiphil perfect 3rd common plural - and they will draw out/unsheathe
• *ḥarḇôtām*: noun feminine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their swords
• *ʿal*-*yəp̄î*: preposition + noun masculine singular construct - against the beauty of
• *ḥoḵmāteḵā*: noun feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your wisdom
• *wə-ḥillēlû*: conjunction + piel perfect 3rd common plural - and they will profane/defile
• *yip̄ʿāteḵā*: noun feminine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your splendor

Word Meanings

• *zārîm*: strangers/foreigners/enemies
• *ʿārîṣê*: terrible/ruthless/violent ones of
• *hērîqû*: they will draw/unsheathe/empty
• *yəp̄î*: beauty/splendor/glory
• *ḥillēlû*: they will profane/defile/pollute
• *yip̄ʿāteḵā*: your splendor/brightness/beauty

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 31:12 : 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
• Ezek 32:12 : 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
• Ezek 30:11 : 11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
• Hab 1:6-8 : 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs. 7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yea, their horsemen come from far; they fly as an eagle that hasteth to devour.
• Dan 7:7 : 7 After this I saw in the night - visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
• Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?
• Deut 28:49-50 : 49 Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand; 50 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
• Isa 23:8-9 : 8 Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth? 9 Jehovah of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• Isa 25:3-4 : 3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee. 4 For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
• Ezek 26:7-9 : 7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.