Ezekiel 37:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְלֹ֧א יִֽטַמְּא֣וּ ע֗וֹד בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙ וּבְשִׁקּ֣וּצֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְכֹ֖ל פִּשְׁעֵיהֶ֑ם וְהוֹשַׁעְתִּ֣י אֹתָ֗ם מִכֹּ֤ל מוֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיהֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָטְא֣וּ בָהֶ֔ם וְטִהַרְתִּ֤י אוֹתָם֙ וְהָיוּ־לִ֣י לְעָ֔ם וַאֲנִ֕י אֶהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

Transliteration

And not wᵊlōʾ yiṭammᵊʾû again ʿôd with bᵊgillûlêhem and with ûbᵊšiqqûṣêhem and with all ûbᵊkōl pišʿêhem and wᵊhôšaʿtî them ʾōtām from all mikkōl môšᵊbōtêhem which ʾăšer ḥāṭᵊʾû in them bāhem and wᵊṭihartî them ʾôtām and they will be wᵊhāyû-lî for me for a people lᵊʿām and I waʾănî I will be ʾehyeh to them lāhem for God lēʾlōhîm

Grammar Details

• *wᵊlōʾ*: conjunction with particle of negation - and not
• *yiṭammᵊʾû*: verb, hitpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will defile themselves
• *ʿôd*: adverb - again/still/yet
• *bᵊgillûlêhem*: preposition with noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - with their idols
• *ûbᵊšiqqûṣêhem*: conjunction with preposition and noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and with their detestable things
• *ûbᵊkōl*: conjunction with preposition and noun, masculine singular construct - and with all of
• *pišʿêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their transgressions
• *wᵊhôšaʿtî*: verb, hiphil perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will save
• *ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *mikkōl*: preposition with noun, masculine singular construct - from all of
• *môšᵊbōtêhem*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their dwelling places
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which
• *ḥāṭᵊʾû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they sinned
• *bāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - in them
• *wᵊṭihartî*: verb, piel perfect with waw-consecutive, 1st person singular - and I will cleanse
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
• *wᵊhāyû-lî*: verb, qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person masculine plural with preposition and 1st person singular suffix - and they will be to me
• *lᵊʿām*: preposition with noun, masculine singular - for a people
• *waʾănî*: conjunction with pronoun, 1st person singular - and I
• *ʾehyeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will be
• *lāhem*: preposition with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - for God

Word Meanings

• *gillûlîm*: idols/idol blocks/dung pellets
• *šiqqûṣîm*: detestable things/abominations
• *pešaʿ*: transgression/rebellion/sin
• *môšāb*: dwelling place/habitation/seat

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, their vile images, or any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the places where they have sinned, and I will purify them. They will be My people, and I will be their God.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  neither shall they defile{H2930} themselves any more with their idols,{H1544} nor with their detestable things,{H8251} nor with any of their transgressions;{H6588} but I will save{H3467} them out of all their dwelling-places,{H4186} wherein they have sinned,{H2398} and will cleanse{H2891} them: so shall they be my people,{H5971} and I will be their God.{H430}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Neither shall they defile{H2930}{(H8691)} themselves any more with their idols{H1544}, nor with their detestable things{H8251}, nor with any of their transgressions{H6588}: but I will save{H3467}{(H8689)} them out of all their dwellingplaces{H4186}, wherein they have sinned{H2398}{(H8804)}, and will cleanse{H2891}{(H8765)} them: so shall they be my people{H5971}, and I will be their God{H430}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  they shal also defyle the selues nomore with their abhominacions, Idols and all their wickeddoinges. I wil helpe the out of all their dwellinge places, wherin they haue synned: & will so clense them, that they shalbe my people, and I their God.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Neither shall they bee polluted any more with their idoles, nor with their abominatios, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will saue them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they haue sinned, and will clense them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  They shall also defile them selues no more with their idoles and abhominations, and al their wicked doynges: I wil saue them out of all their dwelling places wherin they haue sinned, and will so cleanse them, that they shalbe my people, and I wilbe their God.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Nor are they defiled any more with their idols, And with their abominations, And with any of their transgressions, And I have saved them out of all their dwellings, In which they have sinned, And I have cleansed them, And they have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to them for God.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 36:28-29 : 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 36:31 : 31 Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
• 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.
• Ezek 43:7-8 : 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no longer defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry or by the corpses of their kings on their high places. 8 By setting their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only a wall between me and them, they have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed; therefore I have consumed them in my anger.
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
• Hos 14:8 : 8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do anymore with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green cypress tree. From me your fruit is found.
• Mic 7:14 : 14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, who dwell solitarily in the woodland, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Zech 13:1-2 : 1 In that day, there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for impurities. 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no longer be remembered; and also, I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to depart out of the land.
• 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.
• Zech 14:21 : 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
• Eph 5:26-27 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Heb 9:13-14 : 13 For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Rev 21:3-4 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things have passed away.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 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. 8 And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Lev 20:7-8 : 7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy: for I am the LORD your God. 8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Ps 68:35 : 35 O God, you are awesome out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he who gives strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.
• Isa 2:18 : 18 And the idols He shall utterly abolish.
• Jer 31:1 : 1 At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
• 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 32:38-39 : 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and their children after them:
• Ezek 20:43 : 43 And there you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.
• Ezek 36:24-25 : 24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. 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.