Ezekiel 18:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, O house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָכֵן֩ אִ֨ישׁ כִּדְרָכָ֜יו אֶשְׁפֹּ֤ט אֶתְכֶם֙ בֵּ֣ית יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה שׁ֤וּבוּ וְהָשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ מִכָּל־פִּשְׁעֵיכֶ֔ם וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֥ה לָכֶ֛ם לְמִכְשׁ֖וֹל עָוֺֽן׃

Transliteration

lākēn ʾîš ki- dərākāyw ʾešpōṭ ʾetkem bêt yiśrāʾēl nəʾum ʾădōnāy YHWH šûbû wə- hāšîbû mi- kol-pišʿêkem wə- lōʾ-yihyeh lākem lə- mikšôl ʿāwōn

Grammar Details

• *lākēn*: adverb - therefore
• *ʾîš*: masculine singular noun - man
• *ki-*: preposition - according to
• *dərākāyw*: feminine plural noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his ways
• *ʾešpōṭ*: Qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will judge
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker with 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
• *bêt*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *nəʾum*: construct state, masculine singular - declaration of
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - Lord
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *šûbû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - return
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *hāšîbû*: Hiphil imperative masculine plural - cause to return
• *mi-*: preposition - from
• *kol*: construct state, masculine singular - all of
• *pišʿêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your transgressions
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yihyeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it will be
• *lākem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - to you
• *lə-*: preposition - for
• *mikšôl*: masculine singular construct - stumbling block of
• *ʿāwōn*: masculine singular noun - iniquity

Word Meanings

• *ʾîš* *ki-* *dərākāyw*: each according to his ways/each by his own conduct
• *nəʾum*: declaration/oracle/utterance
• *šûbû*: return/repent/turn back
• *hāšîbû*: turn away/repent/bring back
• *pišʿêkem*: your transgressions/your rebellions/your crimes
• *mikšôl* *ʿāwōn*: stumbling block of iniquity/obstacle of guilt/cause of sin

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 18:21 : 21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.
• Hos 12:6 : 6 But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.
• Joel 2:12-13 : 12 An Appeal for Repentance“Yet even now,” the LORD says,“return to me with all your heart– with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13 Tear your hearts, not just your garments!” Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and boundless in loyal love– often relenting from calamitous punishment.
• Ezek 33:20 : 20 Yet you say,‘The behavior of the Lord is not right.’ House of Israel, I will judge each of you according to his behavior.”
• Ezek 14:6 : 6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.
• Ezek 7:3 : 3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge you according to your behavior, I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.
• Luke 13:3 : 3 No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well!
• Luke 13:5 : 5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed!
• Eccl 12:14 : 14 For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Say to them,‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
• Matt 3:2 : 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”
• Matt 3:8 : 8 Therefore produce fruit that proves your repentance,
• Matt 16:27 : 27 For the Son of Man will come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
• Matt 25:32 : 32 All the nations will be assembled before him, and he will separate people one from another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
• Ezek 34:20 : 20 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
• Dan 9:13 : 13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.
• Mal 3:18 : 18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.
• Ezek 33:9 : 9 But if you warn the wicked man to change his behavior, and he refuses to change, he will die for his iniquity, but you have saved your own life.
• Eccl 3:17 : 17 I thought to myself,“God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.
• Ezek 7:8-9 : 8 Soon now I will pour out my rage on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices. 9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who is striking you.
• Ezek 7:27 : 27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the LORD!”
• 2 Cor 5:10-11 : 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil. 11 The Message of Reconciliation Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we try to persuade people, but we are well known to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.
• Gal 6:4-5 : 4 Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each one will carry his own load.
• Jas 1:15 : 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
• 1 Pet 1:17 : 17 And if you address as Father the one who impartially judges according to each one’s work, live out the time of your temporary residence here in reverence.
• Rev 2:5 : 5 Therefore, remember from what high state you have fallen and repent! Do the deeds you did at the first; if not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place– that is, if you do not repent.
• Rev 2:16 : 16 Therefore, repent! If not, I will come against you quickly and make war against those people with the sword of my mouth.
• Rev 2:21-23 : 21 I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality. 22 Look! I am throwing her onto a bed of violent illness, and those who commit adultery with her into terrible suffering, unless they repent of her deeds. 23 Furthermore, I will strike her followers with a deadly disease, and then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will repay each one of you what your deeds deserve.
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then books were opened, and another book was opened– the book of life. So the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds.
• Rev 22:12 : 12 (Look! I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!
• Acts 26:20 : 20 but I declared to those in Damascus first, and then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds consistent with repentance.