Ezekiel 35:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַ֗עַן הֱי֤וֹת לְךָ֙ אֵיבַ֣ת עוֹלָ֔ם וַתַּגֵּ֥ר אֶת־בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עַל־יְדֵי־חָ֑רֶב בְּעֵ֣ת אֵידָ֔ם בְּעֵ֖ת עֲוֺ֥ן קֵֽץ׃

Transliteration

Yaʿan hĕyôt to you ʾêḇat ʿôlām, and wattaḡḡēr ʾet-bənê-Yiśrāʾēl upon-yədê-ḥāreḇ at ʿēt ʾêdām, at ʿēt ʿăwōn qēṣ.

Grammar Details

• *Yaʿan*: conjunction - because
• *hĕyôt*: qal infinitive construct - being/having
• *ʾêḇat*: noun feminine singular construct - enmity of
• *ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - eternity/long duration
• *wattaḡḡēr*: waw-consecutive + hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - and you delivered/poured out
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *bənê*: noun masculine plural construct - sons of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *yədê*: noun feminine dual construct - hands of/power of
• *ḥāreḇ*: noun feminine singular - sword
• *ʿēt*: noun common singular construct - time of
• *ʾêdām*: noun masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their calamity
• *ʿăwōn*: noun masculine singular construct - iniquity of
• *qēṣ*: noun masculine singular - end

Word Meanings

• *Yaʿan*: because/since
• *hĕyôt*: being/having/there being
• *ʾêḇat*: enmity/hostility
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/ancient/perpetual
• *wattaḡḡēr*: you poured out/delivered over/scattered
• *yədê*: hands of/power of/by means of
• *ʿēt*: time/season
• *ʾêdām*: their calamity/distress/disaster
• *ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment
• *qēṣ*: end/final punishment

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Because you have harbored eternal hostility and delivered the Israelites to the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For so moch as thou bearest an olde enemyte agaynst the children of Israel, & with a cruel honde hast made them afrayed, what tyme as they were troubled & punyshed for their synne:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Because thou hast had a perpetuall hatred and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sword in the time of their calamitie, when their iniquitie had an ende,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Forsomuch as thou bearest an olde enmitie, and hast put the children of Israel to flight by the force of the sworde, in the time of their calamitie, when their iniquitie had an ende.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed [the blood of] the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time [that their] iniquity [had] an end:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:

• World English Bible (2000)

  Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who said, Tear it down, tear it down, even to its foundation.
• Amos 1:11 : 11 Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity, and his anger tore perpetually, and he kept his wrath forever:
• Ezek 21:25 : 25 And you, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,
• Ezek 21:29 : 29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.
• Ezek 25:12 : 12 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
• Ezek 25:15 : 15 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have acted by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
• Ezek 35:12 : 12 And you shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given to us to consume.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Obad 1:10-16 : 10 For your violence against your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be cut off forever. 11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were as one of them. 12 But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his calamity; nor should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. 13 You should not have entered the gate of My people in the day of their calamity; indeed, you should not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. 14 You should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off those among them who escaped; nor should you have delivered up those among them who remained in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be done to you; your recompense shall return upon your own head. 16 For as you have drunk on My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yes, they shall drink, and swallow, and they shall be as though they had never been.
• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
• Gen 27:41-42 : 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob. 42 And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau, concerning you, comforts himself, planning to kill you.