Ezekiel 5:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in thee, and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter into all the winds.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵ֗ן אָב֞וֹת יֹאכְל֤וּ בָנִים֙ בְּתוֹכֵ֔ךְ וּבָנִ֖ים יֹאכְל֣וּ אֲבוֹתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֤יתִי בָךְ֙ שְׁפָטִ֔ים וְזֵרִיתִ֥י אֶת־כָּל־שְׁאֵרִיתֵ֖ךְ לְכָל־רֽוּחַ׃

Transliteration

lākēn ʾābôt yōʾkəlû bānîm bətôkēk û-bānîm yōʾkəlû ʾăbôtām wə-ʿāśîtî bāk šəpāṭîm wə-zērîtî ʾet-kol-šəʾērîtēk lə-kol-rûaḥ

Grammar Details

• *lākēn*: adverb - therefore
• *ʾābôt*: masculine plural noun - fathers
• *yōʾkəlû*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they will eat
• *bānîm*: masculine plural noun - sons
• *bətôkēk*: preposition + noun + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - in your midst
• û-*bānîm*: conjunction + masculine plural noun - and sons
• *ʾăbôtām*: masculine plural noun + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their fathers
• wə-*ʿāśîtî*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will execute
• *bāk*: preposition + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - in you
• *šəpāṭîm*: masculine plural noun - judgments
• wə-*zērîtî*: conjunction + piel perfect 1st person singular - and I will scatter
• *ʾet-kol-šəʾērîtēk*: direct object marker + construct noun + feminine singular noun + 2nd person feminine singular suffix - all your remnant
• *lə-kol-rûaḥ*: preposition + construct noun + feminine singular noun - to every wind

Word Meanings

• *šəpāṭîm*: judgments/punishments
• *zērîtî*: scatter/winnow/disperse
• *šəʾērîtēk*: your remnant/remainder/surviving portion
• *rûaḥ*: wind/direction/spirit

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:64 : 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, [even] wood and stone.
• Ezek 12:14 : 14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that [are] about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
• Zech 2:6 : 6 ¶ Ho, ho, [come forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD.
• Ezek 36:19 : 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
• Lev 26:29 : 29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
• Ps 44:11 : 11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
• Jer 19:9 : 9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
• Ezek 5:2 : 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a third part, [and] smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
• Ezek 5:12 : 12 A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
• Ezek 6:8 : 8 ¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have [some] that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
• Lam 2:20 : 20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
• Lam 4:10 : 10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
• Lev 26:33 : 33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
• Amos 9:9 : 9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
• Zech 7:14 : 14 But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
• Jer 9:16 : 16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
• Ezek 22:15 : 15 And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.
• Ezek 20:23 : 23 I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
• Luke 21:24 : 24 ‹And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.›
• Deut 4:27 : 27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
• Deut 28:53-57 : 53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 54 [So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all [things] secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
• Deut 32:26 : 26 ¶ I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
• 2 Kgs 6:29 : 29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
• Neh 1:8 : 8 Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, [If] ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
• Jer 44:12 : 12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [even] be consumed by the sword [and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel [is] a scattered sheep; the lions have driven [him] away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
• Isa 9:20 : 20 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
• Isa 49:26 : 26 And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.