Ezekiel 20:38

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבָרוֹתִ֣י מִכֶּ֗ם הַמֹּרְדִ֤ים וְהַפּֽוֹשְׁעִים֙ בִּ֔י מֵאֶ֤רֶץ מְגֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ אוֹצִ֣יא אוֹתָ֔ם וְאֶל־אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יָב֑וֹא וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

ûḇārôṯî mikkem hammōrəḏîm wəhappôšəʿîm bî mēʾereṣ məḡûrêhem ʾôṣîʾ ʾôṯām wəʾel-ʾaḏmaṯ yiśrāʾēl lōʾ yāḇôʾ wîḏaʿtem kî-ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ûḇārôṯî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will purge/separate
• *mikkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - from you
• *hammōrəḏîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the rebels/those who rebel
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: conjunction + definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - and the transgressors
• *bî*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me
• *mēʾereṣ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - from land of
• *məḡûrêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their sojournings
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will bring out
• *ʾôṯām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *wəʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and to/into
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: noun, feminine singular construct - soil/land of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yāḇôʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will enter/come
• *wîḏaʿtem*: conjunction + qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
• *kî*: conjunction - that
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name

Word Meanings

• *ûḇārôṯî*: and I will purge/and I will separate/and I will clear away
• *hammōrəḏîm*: the rebels/those who are rebellious/those who revolt
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: and the transgressors/and those who sin/and those who transgress
• *məḡûrêhem*: their sojournings/their dwelling places/their habitations
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: I will bring out/I will lead out/I will extract
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: soil of/land of/ground of
• *yāḇôʾ*: he will enter/he will come/they will come [subject may be collective]

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 13:9 : 9 And my hand will be against the prophets who see visions without substance and who make false use of secret arts: they will not be in the secret of my people, and they will not be recorded in the list of the children of Israel, and they will not come into the land of Israel; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
• Ps 95:11 : 11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
• Amos 9:9-9 : 9 For see, I will give orders, and I will have Israel moved about among all the nations, as grain is moved about by the shaking of the tray, but not the smallest seed will be dropped on the earth. 10 All those sinners among my people will be put to the sword who say, Evil will not overtake us or come face to face with us.
• Zech 13:8-9 : 8 And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. 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.
• Mal 3:3 : 3 He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.
• Mal 4:1-3 : 1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch. 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food. 3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
• Matt 25:32-33 : 32 And before him all the nations will come together; and they will be parted one from another, as the sheep are parted from the goats by the keeper. 33 And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.
• Ezek 6:7 : 7 And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
• Ezek 11:21 : 21 But as for those whose heart goes after their hated and disgusting things, I will send on their heads the punishment of their ways, says the Lord.
• Ezek 15:7 : 7 And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.
• Ezek 23:49 : 49 And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
• Ezek 34:17-22 : 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.
• Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation: 28 For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short. 29 And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.
• Heb 4:3 : 3 For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
• Heb 4:6 : 6 So that as it is clear that some have to go in, and that the first hearers of the good news were not able to go in because they went against God's orders,
• Jude 1:5 : 5 Now it is my purpose to put you in mind, though you once had knowledge of all these things, of how the Lord, having taken a people safely out of Egypt, later sent destruction on those who had no faith;
• Matt 3:9-9 : 9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham. 10 And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
• Num 14:28-30 : 28 Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you: 29 Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me, 30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)