Ezekiel 14:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

That the house of Israel may no longer go astray from me, nor be polluted anymore with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then the house of Israel will no longer stray from me or defile themselves with all their transgressions. They will be my people, and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  that ye house of Israel be led nomore fro me thorow erroure, and be nomore defyled in their wickednesse: but that they maye be my people, and I their God, saieth the LORDE God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from mee, neither bee polluted any more with all their transgressions, but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, sayth the Lorde God.

• 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.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  so that the house of Israel do not wander any more from after Me, nor are defiled any more with all their transgressions, and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 37:23 : 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezek 48:11 : 11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; who have kept my charge, and did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
• Ezek 11:18-20 : 18 And they shall come there, and they shall take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. 19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh and will give them a heart of flesh: 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezek 44:10 : 10 And the Levites who went far away from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall bear their iniquity.
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord GOD:
• Ezek 34:10-31 : 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; nor shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be food for them. 11 For thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search for my sheep, and seek them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a rich pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. 15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord GOD. 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment. 17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the goats. 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet? 19 And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD to them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you have pushed with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad; 22 Therefore I will save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep. 23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd. 24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken it. 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26 And I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those who used them. 28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid. 29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, nor bear the shame of the nations any more. 30 Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord GOD. 31 And you my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord GOD.
• Ezek 36:25-29 : 25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. 26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them. 28 And you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Ezek 39:22 : 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day forward.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them as gold is tested; they shall call on my name, and I will hear them; I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
• 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.
• Deut 13:11 : 11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this among you.
• Deut 19:20 : 20 And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.
• Ps 119:67 : 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I keep Your word.
• Isa 9:16 : 16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, and those who are led by them are destroyed.
• Jer 11:4 : 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all that I command you; so shall you be my people, and I will be your God:
• Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law within them, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Jer 50:6 : 6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.