Ezekiel 20:19

Geneva Bible (1560)

I am the Lord your God: walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements and doe them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם בְּחֻקּוֹתַ֖י לֵ֑כוּ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י שִׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשׂ֥וּ אוֹתָֽם

Transliteration

ʾănî YHWH your ʾĕlōhêkem, in my ḥuqqôtay lēkû and my mišpāṭay šimrû and ʿăśû them

Grammar Details

• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
• *bə-ḥuqqôtay*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - in my statutes
• *lēkû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - walk!
• *wə-ʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *mišpāṭay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my judgments
• *šimrû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - keep/observe!
• *wa-ʿăśû*: conjunction + Qal imperative masculine plural - and do!
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them

Word Meanings

• *YHWH*: Yahweh, the LORD (divine name)
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: your God, your deity
• *ḥuqqôtay*: my statutes, my decrees, my prescribed laws
• *lēkû*: walk, follow, live according to
• *mišpāṭay*: my judgments, ordinances, legal decisions
• *šimrû*: keep, observe, guard
• *ʿăśû*: do, perform, fulfill

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:2-3 : 2 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me.
• Deut 4:1 : 1 Nowe therefore hearken, O Israel, vnto the ordinances and to the lawes which I teache you to doe, that ye may liue and goe in, and possesse the lande, which the Lorde God of your fathers giueth you.
• Deut 5:1 : 1 Then Moses called all Israiel, and saide vnto them, Heare, O Israel, the ordinances and the lawes which I propose to you this day, that yee may learne them, and take heede to obserue them.
• Deut 5:6-7 : 6 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought thee out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face.
• Deut 5:32-6:8 : 32 Take heede therefore, that ye doe as the Lord your God hath commaunded you: turne not aside to the right hand nor to the left, 33 But walke in all the wayes which the Lord your God hath commaunded you, that ye may liue, and that it may goe well with you: and that ye may prolong your dayes in the land which ye shall possesse. 1 These now are the commandements, ordinances, and lawes, which the Lorde your God commanded me to teach you, that ye might doe them in the land whither ye go to possesse it: 2 That thou mightest feare the Lorde thy God, and keepe all his ordinances, and his commandements which I commaund thee, thou, and thy sonne, and thy sonnes sonne all the dayes of thy life, euen that thy dayes may be prolonged. 3 Heare therefore, O Israel, and take heede to doe it, that it may go well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily in the land that floweth with milke and hony, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee. 4 Heare, O Israel, The Lord our God is Lord onely, 5 And thou shalt loue the Lorde thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soule, and with all thy might. 6 And these wordes which I commaund thee this day, shalbe in thine heart. 7 And thou shalt rehearse them continually vnto thy children, and shalt talke of them when thou tariest in thine house, and as thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest downe, and when thou risest vp: 8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe vpon thine hand, and they shalbe as frontlets betweene thine eyes.
• Deut 7:4-6 : 4 For they wil cause thy sonne to turne away from me, and to serue other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord waxe hote against you and destroy thee suddenly. 5 But thus ye shal deale with them, Ye shal ouerthrowe their altars, and breake downe their pillars, and ye shall cut downe their groues, and burne their grauen images with fire. 6 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lord thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a precious people vnto himselfe, aboue all people that are vpon the earth.
• Deut 8:1 : 1 Ye shall keepe all the commandements which I command thee this day, for to doe them: that ye may liue, and be multiplied, and goe in, and possesse the land which the Lord sware vnto your fathers.
• Deut 10:1-9 : 1 In the same time the Lord said vnto me, Hewe thee two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and come vp vnto me into the Mount, and make thee an Arke of wood, 2 And I will write vpon the Tables ye wordes that were vpon the first Tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the Arke. 3 And I made an Arke of Shittim wood, and hewed two Tables of stone like vnto the first, and went vp into the Mountaine, and the two Tables in mine hand. 4 Then he wrote vpon the Tables according to the first writing (the tenne commandements, which the Lord spake vnto you in the Mount out of the middes of the fire, in the day of the assemblie) and the Lord gaue them vnto me. 5 And I departed, and came downe from the Mount, and put the Tables in the Arke which I had made: and there they be, as the Lorde commanded me. 6 And ye children of Israel tooke their iourney from Beeroth of the children of Iaakan to Mosera, where Aaron dyed, and was buried, and Eleazar his sonne became Priest in his steade. 7 From thence they departed vnto Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Iotbath a land of running waters. 8 The same time ye Lord separated the tribe of Leui to beare the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, and to stand before ye Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name vnto this day. 9 Wherefore Leui hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren: for the Lord is his inheritance, as the Lord thy God hath promised him. 10 And I taried in the mount, as at ye first time, fourtie dayes and fourtie nightes, and the Lorde heard me at that time also, and the Lorde would not destroy thee. 11 But the Lord said vnto me, Arise, goe forth in the iourney before the people, that they may goe in and possesse the land, which I sware vnto their fathers to giue vnto them. 12 And nowe, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare the Lord thy God, to walke in all his wayes, & to loue him, and to serue the Lord thy God, with all thine heart, and with all thy soule?
• Deut 11:1 : 1 Therefore thou shalt loue the Lord thy God, and shalt keepe that, which he commandeth to be kept: that is, his ordinances, and his lawes, and his commandements alway.
• Deut 12:1 : 1 These are the ordinances and the lawes, which ye shall obserue and doe in the lande (which the Lord God of thy fathers giueth thee to possesse it) as long as yee liue vpon the earth.
• Neh 9:13-14 : 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and spakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgements, and true lawes, ordinances and good commandements, 14 And declaredst vnto them thine holy Sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, and ordinances, and lawes, by the hande of Moses thy seruant:
• Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The Lawe of the Lord is perfite, conuerting the soule: the testimonie of the Lord is sure, and giueth wisedome vnto the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lorde are right and reioyce the heart: the commandement of the Lord is pure, and giueth light vnto the eyes. 9 The feare of the Lorde is cleane, and indureth for euer: the iudgements of the Lorde are trueth: they are righteous altogether, 10 And more to be desired then golde, yea, then much fine golde: sweeter also then honie and the honie combe. 11 Moreouer by them is thy seruant made circumspect, and in keeping of them there is great reward.
• Ps 81:9-9 : 9 Let there bee no strange god in thee, neither worship thou any strange god. 10 For I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide and I will fill it.
• Ps 105:45 : 45 That they might keepe his statutes, and obserue his Lawes. Prayse ye the Lord.
• Jer 3:22-23 : 22 O yee disobedient children, returne and I wil heale your rebellions. Behold, we come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God. 23 Truly the hope of the hilles is but vaine, nor the multitude of mountaines: but in the Lorde our God is the health of Israel.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 That they may walke in my statutes, and keepe my iudgements, and execute them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirite within you, and cause you to walke in my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements and do them.
• Ezek 37:24 : 24 And Dauid my seruant shalbe king ouer them, and they all shall haue one shepheard: they shall also walke in my iudgements, and obserue my statutes, and doe them.
• Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For that grace of God, that bringeth saluation vnto all men, hath appeared, 12 And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world, 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and appearing of that glorie of that mightie God, and of our Sauiour Iesus Christ, 14 Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.