Ezekiel 7:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

As for the beauty of his ornaments, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein; therefore, have I set it far from them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּצְבִ֤י עֶדְיוֹ֙ לְגָא֣וֹן שָׂמָ֔הוּ וְצַלְמֵ֧י תוֹעֲבֹתָ֛ם שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶ֖ם עָ֣שׂוּ ב֑וֹ עַל־כֵּ֛ן נְתַתִּ֥יו לָהֶ֖ם לְנִדָּֽה׃

Transliteration

û-ṣəḇî ʿeḏyô lə-ḡāʾôn śāmāhû wə-ṣalmê tôʿăḇōṯām šiqqûṣêhem ʿāśû ḇô ʿal-kēn nəṯattîw lāhem lə-niddāh

Grammar Details

• *û-ṣəḇî*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular construct - and beauty/splendor of
• *ʿeḏyô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his ornament/adornment
• *lə-ḡāʾôn*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - for pride/majesty
• *śāmāhû*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - they set it
• *wə-ṣalmê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and images of
• *tôʿăḇōṯām*: noun, feminine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their abominations
• *šiqqûṣêhem*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their detestable things
• *ʿāśû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they made
• *ḇô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - with it
• *ʿal*-*kēn*: preposition + adverb - therefore
• *nəṯattîw*: qal perfect, 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - I have given it
• *lāhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them
• *lə-niddāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for impurity/filth

Word Meanings

• *ṣəḇî*: beauty/splendor/glory
• *ʿeḏyô*: ornament/adornment/jewelry
• *ḡāʾôn*: pride/majesty/arrogance/excellency
• *śāmāhû*: set/place/establish it
• *ṣalmê*: images/idols/statues
• *tôʿăḇōṯām*: their abominations/detestable things
• *šiqqûṣêhem*: their detestable things/idols/abominations
• *niddāh*: impurity/filth/menstrual impurity

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They took pride in the beauty of their jewelry and made it into images of their detestable idols. Therefore, I will make it a thing of uncleanness for them.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  As for the beauty{H6643} of his ornament,{H5716} he set{H7760} it in majesty;{H1347} but they made{H6213} the images{H6754} of their abominations{H8441} [and] their detestable things{H8251} therein: therefore have I made{H5414} it unto them as an unclean{H5079} thing.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  As for the beauty{H6643} of his ornament{H5716}, he set{H7760}{(H8804)} it in majesty{H1347}: but they made{H6213}{(H8804)} the images{H6754} of their abominations{H8441} and of their detestable things{H8251} therein: therefore have I set{H5414}{(H8804)} it far{H5079} from them.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  because they made therof, not only costly Ieweles for their pompe and pryde, but also abhominable ymages and Idols. For this cause will I make them to be abhorred.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  He had also set the beautie of his ornament in maiestie: but they made images of their abominations, and of their idoles therein: therefore haue I set it farre from them.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  He had also set the beautie of his ornament in maiestie: but they made images of their abhominations and fylthinesses in it, therfore haue I set it farre from them.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations `and' their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  As for their beautiful ornament, they had put it on high, and had made the images of their disgusting and hated things in it: for this cause I have made it an unclean thing to them.

• World English Bible (2000)

  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
• Jer 7:30 : 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
• Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
• Ezek 8:7-9 : 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall all around.
• Ezek 8:15-16 : 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
• Ezek 9:7 : 7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.
• Jer 7:14 : 14 Therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
• Lam 1:10 : 10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you commanded that they should not enter into your congregation.
• Lam 2:1 : 1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger, and cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!
• Lam 2:7 : 7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
• Ezek 5:11 : 11 Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have any pity.
• Ezek 7:22 : 22 I will also turn my face from them, and they shall pollute my secret place; for the robbers shall enter into it and defile it.
• 2 Kgs 21:4 : 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'
• 2 Kgs 21:7 : 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'
• 2 Kgs 23:11-12 : 11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the officer, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
• 1 Chr 29:1-2 : 1 Furthermore, King David said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is still young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God. 2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the bronze for things of bronze, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistening stones, and of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.
• 2 Chr 2:9 : 9 To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.
• 2 Chr 3:1-9 : 1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2 And he began to build on the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. 3 Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits according to the first measure was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits. 4 And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was one hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold. 5 And the greater house he paneled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains. 6 And he adorned the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim. 7 He also overlaid the house, the beams, the posts, the walls, and the doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls. 8 And he made the most holy house, the length of which was according to the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents. 9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold. 10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: one wing of one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was also five cubits, joining to the wing of the other cherub. 13 The wings of these cherubim spread out twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward. 14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and worked cherubim on it. 15 Also, he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. 16 And he made chains, like in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. 17 And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
• 2 Chr 33:4-7 : 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.
• Ezra 3:12 : 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of the fathers' houses, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy,
• Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
• Ps 50:2 : 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
• Ps 87:2-3 : 2 The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.
• Hag 2:3 : 3 Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes as nothing compared to it?