Ezekiel 16:59

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you as you have done, since you despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה וְעָשִׂ֥יתִי אוֹתָ֖ךְ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֑ית אֲשֶׁר־בָּזִ֥ית אָלָ֖ה לְהָפֵ֥ר בְּרִֽית׃

Transliteration

For kî thus kōh ʾāmar ʾădōnāy YHWH: and wĕʿāśîtî ʾôtāk according to what kaʾăšer ʿāśît, who ʾăšer-bāzît ʾālāh to break lĕhāpēr bĕrît.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *kōh*: adverb - thus/so
• *ʾāmar*: perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he said
• *ʾădōnāy*: noun, masculine plural construct + 1st singular suffix - my Lord
• *YHWH*: proper noun - YHWH/the LORD
• *wĕʿāśîtî*: conjunction + perfect, 1st singular - and I will do
• *ʾôtāk*: direct object marker + 2nd feminine singular suffix - you
• *kaʾăšer*: conjunction - according to what
• *ʿāśît*: perfect, 2nd feminine singular - you did
• *ʾăšer-bāzît*: relative pronoun + perfect, 2nd feminine singular - who despised
• *ʾālāh*: noun, feminine singular - oath
• *lĕhāpēr*: preposition + infinitive construct, Hiphil - to break
• *bĕrît*: noun, feminine singular - covenant

Word Meanings

• *ʾădōnāy*: my Lord/Master (divine title)
• *wĕʿāśîtî*: I will do/act/deal with
• *ʿāśît*: you did/acted/performed
• *bāzît*: you despised/disdained/held in contempt
• *ʾālāh*: oath/curse/imprecation
• *lĕhāpēr*: to break/violate/nullify
• *bĕrît*: covenant/agreement/treaty

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thus saith{H559} the Lord{H136} Jehovah:{H3069} I will also deal{H6213} with thee as thou hast done,{H6213} who hast despised{H959} the oath{H423} in breaking{H6565} the covenant.{H1285}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the Lord{H136} GOD{H3069}; I will even deal{H6213}{(H8804)} with thee as thou hast done{H6213}{(H8804)}, which hast despised{H959}{(H8804)} the oath{H423} in breaking{H6565}{(H8687)} the covenant{H1285}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For thus saieth the LORDE God: I shulde (by right) deale with the, as thou hast done. Thou hast despysed the ooth, and broken the couenaunte.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For thus saith the Lord God, I might euen deale with thee, as thou hast done: when thou didest despise the othe, in breaking the couenant.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For thus saith the Lorde God, I might by right deale with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the othe in breaking the couenaunt:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
• Ezek 17:19 : 19 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will bring upon his own head.
• Matt 7:1-2 : 1 Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. 2 For with the standard you use to judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does what is evil, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.
• Exod 24:1-8 : 1 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders, and worship from a distance." 2 Only Moses is to approach the LORD; the others must not come near, and the people must not go up with him. 3 Moses came and told the people all the LORD's words and laws. The people responded with one voice, saying, "We will do everything the LORD has said." 4 Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning, he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up twelve pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel. 5 Then he sent young men of the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD. 6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar. 7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They said, "We will do everything the LORD has said; we will obey." 8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."
• Deut 29:10-15 : 10 Your children, your wives, and the resident foreigner who lives among your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water. 11 You are entering into the covenant of the LORD your God and His oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today. 12 He is confirming you today as His people, and He will be your God, just as He promised you and swore to your ancestors—Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 13 It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant and this oath. 14 But also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God and with those who are not here with us today. 15 For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations you encountered on the way.
• Deut 29:25 : 25 They turned to other gods and worshiped and bowed down to them, gods they did not know and gods the LORD had not given to them.'
• 2 Chr 34:31-32 : 31 The king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD to follow the LORD, to keep His commandments, decrees, and statutes with all his heart and all his soul, and to carry out the words of the covenant written in this book. 32 He had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin pledge themselves to it. So the inhabitants of Jerusalem acted according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors.
• Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.
• Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness will discipline you; your backslidings will rebuke you. Consider and see how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of me,” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
• Jer 22:9 : 9 And the answer will be: 'Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods.'
• Jer 31:32 : 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them, declares the LORD.
• Ezek 7:4 : 4 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you for your conduct and your detestable practices among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'
• Ezek 7:8-9 : 8 'I am about to pour out my wrath upon you and exhaust my anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and bring upon you all your detestable practices.' 9 'I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will repay you according to your conduct and the detestable practices among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes you.'
• Ezek 14:4 : 4 Therefore, speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Any man from the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and then comes to the prophet—I, the LORD, will answer him myself in keeping with the multitude of his idols.'
• Ezek 17:13-16 : 13 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under an oath. Then he carried away the leaders of the land. 14 This kingdom was made humble so that it would not exalt itself, and so that by keeping its covenant, it might stand firm. 15 But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to obtain horses and a great army. Will he prosper? Will he escape if he does such things? Can a person break a covenant and still escape? 16 As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, in the place where the king who made him king resides—whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke—there in Babylon he will die.