Ezekiel 20:38

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I will eliminate from among you the rebels and those who revolt against me. I will bring them out from the land where they have been residing, but they will not come to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּבָרוֹתִ֣י מִכֶּ֗ם הַמֹּרְדִ֤ים וְהַפּֽוֹשְׁעִים֙ בִּ֔י מֵאֶ֤רֶץ מְגֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ אוֹצִ֣יא אוֹתָ֔ם וְאֶל־אַדְמַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יָב֑וֹא וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

ûḇārôṯî mikkem hammōrəḏîm wəhappôšəʿîm bî mēʾereṣ məḡûrêhem ʾôṣîʾ ʾôṯām wəʾel-ʾaḏmaṯ yiśrāʾēl lōʾ yāḇôʾ wîḏaʿtem kî-ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ûḇārôṯî*: conjunction + qal perfect, 1st singular - and I will purge/separate
• *mikkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - from you
• *hammōrəḏîm*: definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - the rebels/those who rebel
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: conjunction + definite article + qal participle, masculine plural - and the transgressors
• *bî*: preposition + 1st singular suffix - against me
• *mēʾereṣ*: preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - from land of
• *məḡûrêhem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their sojournings
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I will bring out
• *ʾôṯām*: direct object marker + 3rd masculine plural suffix - them
• *wəʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and to/into
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: noun, feminine singular construct - soil/land of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yāḇôʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will enter/come
• *wîḏaʿtem*: conjunction + qal perfect, 2nd masculine plural - and you will know
• *kî*: conjunction - that
• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st singular - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name

Word Meanings

• *ûḇārôṯî*: and I will purge/and I will separate/and I will clear away
• *hammōrəḏîm*: the rebels/those who are rebellious/those who revolt
• *wəhappôšəʿîm*: and the transgressors/and those who sin/and those who transgress
• *məḡûrêhem*: their sojournings/their dwelling places/their habitations
• *ʾôṣîʾ*: I will bring out/I will lead out/I will extract
• *ʾaḏmaṯ*: soil of/land of/ground of
• *yāḇôʾ*: he will enter/he will come/they will come [subject may be collective]

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 13:9 : 9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council of my people, nor be written in the registry of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
• Ps 95:11 : 11 So I made a vow in my anger,‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”
• Amos 9:9-9 : 9 “For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground. 10 All the sinners among my people will die by the sword– the ones who say,‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’
• Zech 13:8-9 : 8 It will happen in all the land, says the LORD, that two-thirds of the people in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it. 9 Then I will bring the remaining third into the fire; I will refine them like silver is refined and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name and I will answer; I will say,‘These are my people,’ and they will say,‘The LORD is my God.’”
• Mal 3:3 : 3 He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the LORD a proper offering.
• Mal 4:1-3 : 1 (3:19)“For indeed the day is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.“It will not leave them even a root or branch. 2 But for you who respect my name, the sun of vindication will rise with healing wings, and you will skip about like calves released from the stall. 3 You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
• Matt 25:32-33 : 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. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 None of the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah. Though they long to return and live there, none of them shall return except a few fugitives.’”
• Ezek 6:7 : 7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 11:21 : 21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the Sovereign LORD.”
• Ezek 15:7 : 7 I will set my face against them– although they have escaped from the fire, the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the LORD, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 23:49 : 49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.”
• Ezek 34:17-22 : 17 “‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats. 18 Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must trample the rest of your pastures with your feet? When you drink clean water, must you muddy the rest of the water by trampling it with your feet? 19 As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet! 20 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, 22 I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
• Rom 9:27-29 : 27 And Isaiah cries out on behalf of Israel,“Though the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved, 28 for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth completely and quickly.” 29 Just as Isaiah predicted,“If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, and we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
• Heb 4:3 : 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.
• Heb 4:6 : 6 Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience.
• Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to remind you(even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.
• Matt 3:9-9 : 9 and don’t think you can say to yourselves,‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these stones! 10 Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”
• Num 14:28-30 : 28 Say to them,‘As I live, says the LORD, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing. 29 Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me. 30 You will by no means enter into the land where I swore to settle you. The only exceptions are Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 The LORD revealed himself; he accomplished justice; the wicked were ensnared by their own actions.(Higgaion. Selah)