Ezekiel 12:25

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י ׀ אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֗ה אֲדַבֵּר֙ אֵת֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲדַבֵּ֤ר דָּבָר֙ וְיֵ֣עָשֶׂ֔ה לֹ֥א תִמָּשֵׁ֖ךְ ע֑וֹד כִּ֣י בִֽימֵיכֶ֞ם בֵּ֣ית הַמֶּ֗רִי אֲדַבֵּ֤ר דָּבָר֙ וַעֲשִׂיתִ֔יו נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃

Transliteration

For I YHWH ʾădabbēr ʾēṯ what ʾădabbēr dāḇār and-yēʿāśeh not timmāšēḵ again for in-yəmêḵem bêṯ hammerî ʾădabbēr dāḇār and-ʿăśîṯîw nəʾūm ʾădōnāy YHWH

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾădabbēr*: piel imperfect, 1st common singular - I will speak
• *dāḇār*: common noun, masculine singular - word/thing
• *yēʿāśeh*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be done
• *timmāšēḵ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it will be prolonged/delayed
• *yəmêḵem*: common noun, masculine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your days
• *bêṯ* *hammerî*: construct chain with definite article - house of the rebellion
• *ʿăśîṯîw*: qal perfect, 1st common singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - I will do it
• *nəʾūm*: passive participle - declaration of

Word Meanings

• *dāḇār*: word/speech/thing/matter

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:11 : 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
• Ezek 12:28 : 28 Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
• Isa 14:24 : 24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
• Hab 1:5 : 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
• Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
• Lam 2:17 : 17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
• Ezek 6:10 : 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
• Ezek 12:1-2 : 1 The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
• Num 14:28-34 : 28 Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were mbered of you, according to your whole mber, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, 30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of n. 31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. 34 After the mber of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
• Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
• Mark 13:30-31 : 30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done. 31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
• Luke 21:13 : 13 And it shall turn to you for a testimony.
• Luke 21:33 : 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
• Dan 9:12 : 12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.