Ezekiel 35:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַ֗עַן הֱי֤וֹת לְךָ֙ אֵיבַ֣ת עוֹלָ֔ם וַתַּגֵּ֥ר אֶת־בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַל־יְדֵי־חָ֑רֶב בְּעֵ֣ת אֵידָ֔ם בְּעֵ֖ת עֲוֺ֥ן קֵֽץ׃

Transliteration

Yaʿan hĕyôt to you ʾêḇat ʿôlām, and wattaḡḡēr ʾet-bənê-Yiśrāʾēl upon-yədê-ḥāreḇ at ʿēt ʾêdām, at ʿēt ʿăwōn qēṣ.

Grammar Details

• *Yaʿan*: conjunction - because
• *hĕyôt*: qal infinitive construct - being/having
• *ʾêḇat*: noun feminine singular construct - enmity of
• *ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - eternity/long duration
• *wattaḡḡēr*: waw-consecutive + hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you delivered/poured out
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *bənê*: noun masculine plural construct - sons of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *yədê*: noun feminine dual construct - hands of/power of
• *ḥāreḇ*: noun feminine singular - sword
• *ʿēt*: noun common singular construct - time of
• *ʾêdām*: noun masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their calamity
• *ʿăwōn*: noun masculine singular construct - iniquity of
• *qēṣ*: noun masculine singular - end

Word Meanings

• *Yaʿan*: because/since
• *hĕyôt*: being/having/there being
• *ʾêḇat*: enmity/hostility
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/ancient/perpetual
• *wattaḡḡēr*: you poured out/delivered over/scattered
• *yədê*: hands of/power of/by means of
• *ʿēt*: time/season
• *ʾêdām*: their calamity/distress/disaster
• *ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment
• *qēṣ*: end/final punishment

Referenced Verses

• Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O Jehovah, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who said, Rase it, rase it, Even to the foundation thereof.
• Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
• Ezek 21:25 : 25 And thou, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
• Ezek 21:29 : 29 while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
• Ezek 25:12 : 12 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
• Ezek 25:15 : 15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;
• Ezek 35:12 : 12 And thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, have heard all thy revilings which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Obad 1:10-16 : 10 For the violence done to thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever. 11 In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them. 12 But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress. 13 Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. 14 And stand thou not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up those of his that remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head. 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
• Gen 27:41-42 : 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. 42 And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, [purposing] to kill thee.