Ezekiel 14:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

That the house of Israel be led no more from me through errour, and be no more defiled in all their transgressions: but that they may be my people, and I their God, saith the Lorde God.

📖 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 They shall also defile them selues no more with their idoles and abhominations, and al their wicked doynges: I wil saue them out of all their dwelling places wherin they haue sinned, and will so cleanse them, that they shalbe my people, and I wilbe their God.
• Ezek 48:11 : 11 This sanctified portion shalbe the priestes that are of the children of Sadoc, which haue kept my charge, which went not astray in the errour of the children of Israel like as the Leuites went astray.
• Ezek 11:18-20 : 18 And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all their idols, and all their abhominations from thence. 19 And I wyll geue them one heart, and I wyll put a newe spirite within their bowels: that stony heart wyll I take out of their body, and geue them a fleshlye heart, 20 That they may walke in my commaundementes, and kepe mine ordinaunces and do them, that they may be my people, and I their God.
• Ezek 44:10 : 10 But the Leuites that went backe from me when Israel went astraye, which strayed from me after their idols, shal beare their iniquitie:
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priestes, the Leuites, the sonnes of Sadoc that kept the charge of my sanctuarie when the children of Israel straied from me, shal come to me to do me seruice, to stand before me, and to offer me the fat and the blood, saith the Lorde God.
• Ezek 34:10-31 : 10 Thus saith the Lorde God: beholde, I wyll vpon the shepheardes, and require my sheepe from their handes, and make them ceasse from feeding of the sheepe, yea the shepheardes shall feede them selues no more: for I wyll deliuer my sheepe out of their mouthes, so that they shall not deuour them after this. 11 For thus saith the Lorde God: behold, I euen I wyll loke to my sheepe my selfe, and seeke them out. 12 Lyke as a shephearde when he hath ben among the flocke, seeketh after the sheepe that are scattered abroade: euen so wyll I seeke after my sheepe, and deliuer them out of all places where they haue ben scattered, in the cloudie and darke day. 13 I wyll bring them out from the people, and gather them together out of the landes, I wyl bring them into their owne lande, and feede them vpon the mountaines of Israel, by the riuers and in all the places of the countrey. 14 I wyll feede them in right good pastures, and vpon the hie mountaines of Israel shall their foldes be: there shall they lye in a good folde, and in a fat pasture shall they feede, euen vpon the mountaines of Israel. 15 I wyll feede my sheepe and bring them to their rest, saith the Lorde God. 16 Such as be lost, wyll I seeke: such as are driuen away, wyll I bring againe: such as be broken, wyl I binde vp: such as be weake, wyll I make strong: such as be fat and strong, those wyll I roote out, and feede them with iudgement. 17 And as for you O my sheepe, saith the Lorde God, I wyll iudge betweene cattaile & cattaile, betweene the rammes and the goates. 18 Seemeth it a smal thing to you to haue eaten vp the good pasture, and to treade downe the residue of your pasture with your feete also? to drinke the deepe waters, and to trouble the rest also with your feete? 19 Thus my sheepe must be faine to eate the thing that ye haue troden downe with your feete, and to drinke it that ye with your feete haue defiled. 20 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God vnto them: Beholde I euen I wyll iudge betweene the fat cattaile and the leane cattaile, 21 Forsomuch as with side and shoulder ye haue shoued, and with your hornes haue pushed all the weake, till ye haue scattered them abroade. 22 I wyll saue my sheepe, so that they shal no more be spoyled, yea I wil iudge betweene cattaile and cattaile. 23 I wyll set vp ouer them a shepheard, and he shall feede them, euen my seruaunt Dauid, he shall feede them, & he shalbe their shepheard. 24 And I the Lorde wyll be their God, and my seruaunt Dauid shalbe their prince: euen I the Lorde haue spoken it. 25 Moreouer I wyll make a couenaunt of peace with them, & cause euil beastes to ceasse out of the lande: so that they may dwell safely in the wildernesse, and sleepe in the woods. 26 And I wyll set them as a blessing euen rounde about my hill, and I wyll cause raine to come downe in due season, and there shalbe raine of blessing. 27 And the tree of the fielde shal yeelde her fruite, and the earth shall geue her encrease: they shalbe safe in their lande, and shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I haue broke the bondes of their yoke, and deliuered them out of the handes of those that serued them selues of them. 28 They shall no more be spoyled of the heathen, nor deuoured with the beastes of the lande: but safely shall they dwel, and no man shall fray them. 29 And I wil raise vp for them a plant of renowme, and they shalbe no more clungd with hunger in the lande, neither beare the reproche of the heathen any more. 30 Thus shall they vnderstand that I the Lorde their God am with them, and that they, euen the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lorde God: 31 And ye my sheepe, the sheepe of my pasture, are men: and I am your God, saith the Lorde God.
• Ezek 36:25-29 : 25 Then wyll I sprinckle cleane water vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: yea from all your vncleannes and from all your idols shall I cleanse you. 26 A newe heart also wyll I geue you, and a newe spirite wyll I put into you: as for that stony heart I wyll take it out of your fleshe, and geue you a fleshy heart. 27 I wyll geue my spirite among you, and cause you to walke in my comaundementes, and ye shall kepe my iudgementes and do them. 28 And so ye shall dwell in the lande that I gaue to your fathers: & ye shalbe my people, and I wil be your God. 29 I wyll deliuer you from all your vncleannes, I wyl call for the corne, and wyll encrease it, and lay no famine vpon you.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 My tabernacle shalbe with them: yea I wilbe their God, and they shalbe my people.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 And the house of Israel shall knowe that I am the Lorde their God, from that day, and so forwarde.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And the same third part wyl I bring through the fire, & wyl cleanse them as the siluer is cleansed, yea and trye them lyke as golde is tryed: then shal they call vpon my name and I wyll heare them, I wyll say it is my people, and they shall say, Lorde my God.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes, saith the Lord, geuyng my lawes into their mynde, and in their heart I wyl write them, and I wyll be to them a God, and they shalbe to me a people.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
• 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye, and are gone astray, folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse:
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all thynges, and I wyl be his God, and he shalbe my sonne.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee.
• Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel shall heare and feare, and shall do no more any suche wickednesse, as this is among you.
• Deut 19:20 : 20 And other shall heare, and feare, and shall hencefoorth commit no more any such wickednesse among you.
• Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I felt affliction I swarued out of the way: but nowe I kepe thy word.
• Isa 9:16 : 16 For the guides of this people are deceauers, and those that be gouerned are vtterly lost.
• Jer 11:4 : 4 Whiche I commaunded vnto your fathers, what time as I brought them out of Egypt from the iron furnace, saying: Be obedient vnto my voyce, and do according to all that I commaunde you, so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
• Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith the Lorde of hoastes concerning these prophetes: Beholde, I wyll feede them with wormewood, and make them drinke the water of gall: For from the prophetes of Hierusalem is hypocrisie come into all the lande.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shalbe the couenaunt that I wyll make with the house of Israel after those dayes saith the Lorde: I wyll plant my lawe in the inwarde partes of them, and write it in their heartes, and wyll be their God, and they shalbe my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they shalbe my people, and I wyll be their God.
• Jer 50:6 : 6 My people haue ben a lost flocke, my sheepheardes haue deceaued them, and haue made them go astray vpon the hylles, they haue gone from the mountayne to the litle hyl, and forgotten their folde.