Ezekiel 14:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְ֠מַען לֹֽא־יִתְע֨וּ ע֤וֹד בֵּֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מֵאַֽחֲרַ֔י וְלֹֽא־יִטַּמְּא֥וּ ע֖וֹד בְּכָל־פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֑ם וְהָ֥יוּ לִ֣י לְעָ֗ם וַֽאֲנִי֙ אֶהְיֶ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לֵֽאלֹהִ֔ים נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃ פ

Transliteration

So-that not-yiṯʿû again bêṯ-yiśrāʾēl from-after-me and-not-yiṭṭamməʾû again with-all-pišʿêhem and-wə-hāyû to-me for-ʿām and-I ʾehyeh to-them for-ʾĕlōhîm nəʾum ʾăḏōnāy YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *yiṯʿû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will go astray/wander
• *bêṯ*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *yiṭṭamməʾû*: hitpael imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will defile themselves
• *pišʿêhem*: masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their transgressions
• *wə-hāyû*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will be
• *ʿām*: masculine singular - people
• *ʾehyeh*: qal imperfect, 1st common singular - I will be
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural - God
• *nəʾum*: masculine singular construct - declaration of
• *ʾăḏōnāy*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - my Lord
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• פ: paragraph marker

Word Meanings

• *yiṯʿû*: go astray/wander/stray
• *yiṭṭamməʾû*: defile themselves/make themselves unclean/pollute themselves
• *pišʿêhem*: their transgressions/their rebellions/their offenses
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 37:23 : 23 And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
• Ezek 48:11 : 11 For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
• Ezek 11:18-20 : 18 And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it. 19 And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh: 20 So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.
• Ezek 44:10 : 10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;
• Ezek 34:10-31 : 10 This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them. 11 For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep. 12 As the keeper goes looking for his flock when he is among his wandering sheep, so I will go looking for my sheep, and will get them safely out of all the places where they have been sent wandering in the day of clouds and black night. 13 And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country. 14 I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord. 16 I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right. 17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats. 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet? 19 And as for my sheep, their food is the grass which has been stamped on by your feet, and their drink the water which has been made dirty by your feet. 20 For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep. 21 Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction; 22 I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper. 24 And I the Lord will be their God and my servant David their ruler; I the Lord have said it. 25 And I will make with them an agreement of peace, and will put an end to evil beasts through all the land: and they will be living safely in the waste land, sleeping in the woods. 26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants. 28 And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them. 29 And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations. 30 And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord. 31 And you are my sheep, the sheep of my grass-lands, and I am your God, says the Lord.
• Ezek 36:25-29 : 25 And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean. 26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you: I will take away the heart of stone from your flesh, and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them. 28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God. 29 And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
• 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.
• Deut 19:20 : 20 And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.
• Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
• Isa 9:16 : 16 For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.
• Jer 11:4 : 4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:
• Jer 23:15 : 15 So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
• Jer 50:6 : 6 My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.