Ezekiel 14:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will give you comfort when you see their ways and their doings: and you will be certain that not for nothing have I done all the things I have done in it, says the Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנִחֲמ֣וּ אֶתְכֶ֔ם כִּֽי־תִרְא֥וּ אֶת־דַּרְכָּ֖ם וְאֶת־עֲלִֽילוֹתָ֑ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֗ם כִּי֩ לֹ֨א חִנָּ֤ם עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙ אֵ֣ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי בָ֔הּ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהֹוִֽה׃ פ

Transliteration

And-wə-niḥămû you when-kî-ṯirʾû ʾeṯ-darkām and-ʾeṯ-ʿălîlôṯām and-wîḏaʿtem that not ḥinnām ʿāśîṯî ʾēṯ all-that-ʿāśîṯî in-it nəʾum ʾăḏōnāy YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *wə-niḥămû*: waw consecutive + piel perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will comfort
• *kî*: conjunction - when/that/for
• *ṯirʾû*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you will see
• *darkām*: masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their way
• *ʿălîlôṯām*: feminine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their deeds
• *wîḏaʿtem*: waw consecutive + qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
• *ḥinnām*: adverb - without cause/for nothing
• *ʿāśîṯî*: qal perfect, 1st common singular - I have done
• *ʾēṯ*: direct object marker
• *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

• *niḥămû*: will comfort/will console/will give relief
• *ṯirʾû*: will see/will observe/will perceive
• *darkām*: their way/their conduct/their behavior
• *ʿălîlôṯām*: their deeds/their actions/their practices
• *ḥinnām*: without cause/for nothing/in vain
• *ʿāśîṯî*: have done/have performed/have carried out

Referenced Verses

• Jer 22:8-9 : 8 And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town? 9 And they will say, Because they gave up the agreement of the Lord their God, and became worshippers and servants of other gods.
• Ezek 8:6-9 : 6 And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things. 7 And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall. 8 And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here. 10 So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall. 11 And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume. 12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land. 13 Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do. 14 Then he took me to the door of the way into the Lord's house looking to the north; and there women were seated weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these. 16 And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east. 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose. 18 For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.
• Ezek 9:8-9 : 8 Now while they were doing so, and I was untouched, I went down on my face, and crying out, I said, Ah, Lord! will you give all the rest of Israel to destruction in letting loose your wrath on Jerusalem? 9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
• Dan 9:7 : 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.
• Dan 9:14 : 14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;
• Rev 15:4 : 4 What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.
• Rev 16:6 : 6 For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.
• Gen 18:22-33 : 22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord. 23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners? 24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men? 25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right? 26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them. 27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: 28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five. 29 And again he said to him, By chance there may be forty there. And he said, I will not do it if there are forty. 30 And he said, Let not the Lord be angry with me if I say, What if there are thirty there? And he said, I will not do it if there are thirty. 31 And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty. 32 And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten. 33 And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.
• Deut 8:2 : 2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
• Neh 9:33 : 33 But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:
• Prov 26:2 : 2 As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.
• Jer 7:17-28 : 17 Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath. 19 Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame? 20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out. 21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food. 22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts: 23 But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you. 24 But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward. 25 From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them: 26 But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers. 27 And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer. 28 And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.