Ezekiel 30:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֤י יְאֹרִים֙ חָֽרָבָ֔ה וּמָכַרְתִּ֥י אֶת־הָאָ֖רֶץ בְּיַד־רָעִ֑ים וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִ֞י אֶ֤רֶץ וּמְלֹאָהּ֙ בְּיַד־זָרִ֔ים אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה דִּבַּֽרְתִּי׃ ס

Transliteration

wə-nātattî yəʾōrîm ḥārāḇāh û-māḵartî ʾet-hā-ʾāreṣ bə-yaḏ-rāʿîm wa-hăšimmōtî ʾereṣ û-məlōʾāh bə-yaḏ-zārîm ʾănî YHWH dibbartî

Grammar Details

*wə-nātattî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will make
*yəʾōrîm*: noun, masculine plural - rivers/Nile channels
*ḥārāḇāh*: adjective, feminine singular - dry
*û-māḵartî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will sell
*ʾet*-*hā-ʾāreṣ*: direct object marker + definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land
*bə-yaḏ*-*rāʿîm*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct + adjective, masculine plural - into the hand of evil ones
*wa-hăšimmōtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st singular - and I will make desolate
*ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine singular - land
*û-məlōʾāh*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular with 3rd feminine singular suffix - and its fullness
*bə-yaḏ*-*zārîm*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct + adjective, masculine plural - by the hand of strangers
*ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
*YHWH*: divine name
*dibbartî*: piel perfect, 1st singular - I have spoken

Word Meanings

*yəʾōrîm*: rivers/Nile channels/streams
*rāʿîm*: evil ones/wicked/harmful
*zārîm*: strangers/foreigners/aliens

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Referenced Verses

Ezek 29:3 : 3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Ezek 29:9-9 : 9 And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. Because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it; 10 therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even unto the border of Ethiopia.
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.
Nah 1:4 : 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
1 Cor 10:26 : 26 for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
Rev 16:12 : 12 And the sixth {G32} poured out his bowl upon the great river, the [river] Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might by made ready for the kings that [come] from the {G2246} sunrising.
Judg 2:14 : 14 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Isa 19:4-9 : 4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry. 6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried up; the reeds and flags shall wither away. 7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more. 8 And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. 9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be confounded. 10 And the pillars [of Egypt] shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire [shall be] grieved in soul.
Isa 44:27 : 27 that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Jer 50:38 : 38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.
Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
Ezek 28:10 : 10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Jehovah.

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