Ezekiel 7:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּפָֽלְטוּ֙ פְּלִ֣יטֵיהֶ֔ם וְהָי֣וּ אֶל־הֶהָרִ֗ים כְּיוֹנֵ֧י הַגֵּאָי֛וֹת כֻּלָּ֖ם הֹמ֑וֹת אִ֖ישׁ בַּעֲוֺנֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

û-p̱ālṭû pəlîṭêhem wə-hāyû ʾel-he-hārîm kə-yônê ha-gêʾāyôṯ kullām hōmôṯ ʾîš ba-ʿăwōnô

Grammar Details

• *û-p̱ālṭû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will escape
• *pəlîṭêhem*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their fugitives
• *wə-hāyû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they will be
• *ʾel*-*he-hārîm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - to the mountains
• *kə-yônê*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct - like doves of
• *ha-gêʾāyôṯ*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the valleys
• *kullām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - all of them
• *hōmôṯ*: qal participle, feminine plural - moaning/mourning
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - man/each one
• *ba-ʿăwōnô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - in his iniquity

Word Meanings

• *p̱ālṭû*: escape/flee/slip away
• *pəlîṭêhem*: their fugitives/escapees/survivors
• *hārîm*: mountains/hills
• *yônê*: doves/pigeons
• *gêʾāyôṯ*: valleys/ravines
• *hōmôṯ*: moaning/mourning/muttering
• *ʿăwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each because of their iniquity.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And soch as escape and fle from amonge them, shal be vpon the hilles, like as the doues in the felde: euery one shalbe afrayed, because off his owne wickednesse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But they that flee away from them, shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaines, like the doues of the valleis: all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But they that flee away from them shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaynes lyke the doues of the valleys, all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And escaped away have their fugitives, And they have been on the mountains As doves of the valleys, All of them make a noising -- each for his iniquity.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.

• World English Bible (2000)

  But those of those who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan– each one for his iniquity.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
• Isa 59:11 : 11 We all roar like bears, and mourn deeply like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
• Ezra 9:15 : 15 O LORD God of Israel, You are righteous, for we remain yet as escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before You in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before You because of this.
• Isa 37:31 : 31 And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward:
• Prov 5:11-14 : 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
• Isa 1:9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom, and we would have been like Gomorrah.
• Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications I will lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, in which they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bull not accustomed to the yoke: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are the LORD my God. 19 Surely, after I was turned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even humiliated, because I bore the reproach of my youth.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
• Jer 44:28 : 28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
• Jer 50:4-5 : 4 In those days and at that time, says the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go and seek the LORD their God. 5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces toward it, saying, Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Ezek 6:8-9 : 8 Yet I will leave a remnant, that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. 9 And those of you who escape shall remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I am grieved by their adulterous heart, which has departed from me, and by their eyes, which go lusting after their idols; and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• 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.
• Zech 12:10-14 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.