Ezekiel 12:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be postponed: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, says 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For I am the LORD. I will speak, and whatever word I speak will come to pass. It will no longer be delayed, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and fulfill it, declares the Lord GOD.

• 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.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  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.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For it is I the LORDE, that speake it: and what so euer I ye LORDE speake, it shal be perfourmed, and not be slacke in commynge. Yee euen in youre dayes (O ye frauwarde housholde) will I deuyse somethinge, & bringe it to passe, saieth the LORDE God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For I am the Lorde: I wil speake, and that thing that I shall speake, shall come to passe: it shall be no more prolonged: for in your dayes, O rebellious house, will I saye the thing, and will performe it, sayeth the Lord God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For I the Lorde speake it, and whatsoeuer I shall speake, it shalbe perfourmed, and not be slacke in commyng any more, yea euen in your dayes O rebellious house, wyll I speake the thyng & bryng it to passe, saith the Lorde God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For I `am' Jehovah, I speak, The word that I speak -- it is done, It is not prolonged any more, For, in your days, O rebellious house, I speak a word, and I have done it, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For I, the LORD, will speak. Whatever word I speak will be accomplished. It will not be delayed any longer. Indeed in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and accomplish it, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

Referenced Verses

• Isa 55:11 : 11 so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
• Ezek 12:28 : 28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD; None of my words shall be postponed any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, says the Lord GOD.
• Isa 14:24 : 24 The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so it will come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it will stand:
• Hab 1:5 : 5 Look among the nations and watch—be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you.
• Jer 16:9 : 9 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease from this place before 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 has done what He had planned; He has fulfilled His word that He commanded in the days of old: He has thrown down, and has not pitied: and He has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, He has exalted the strength of your adversaries.
• Ezek 6:10 : 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not spoken in vain that I would do this evil to them.
• Ezek 12:1-2 : 1 The word of the LORD also came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see but do not see; and ears to hear but do not hear: for they are a rebellious house.
• Num 14:28-34 : 28 Say to them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: 29 Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 30 Surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, which you said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. 32 But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you 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 overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
• Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
• Mark 13:30-31 : 30 Truly I say to you, that this generation shall not pass until all these things are 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 has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great calamity: for under the whole heaven, such as has been done upon Jerusalem has not been done.