Ezekiel 39:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיָדְע֣וּ הַ֠גּוֹיִם כִּ֣י בַעֲוֺנָ֞ם גָּל֣וּ בֵֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל עַ֚ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר מָֽעֲלוּ־בִ֔י וָאַסְתִּ֥ר פָּנַ֖י מֵהֶ֑ם וָֽאֶתְּנֵם֙ בְּיַ֣ד צָרֵיהֶ֔ם וַיִּפְּל֥וּ בַחֶ֖רֶב כֻּלָּֽם

Transliteration

And they shall yādəʿû the haggôyim that for their baʿăwōnām gālû bêt-Yiśrāʾēl, because they māʿălû-bî, and I ʾastîr my pānay from them, and I ʾettənēm into yad of their ṣārêhem, and they all yippəlû by the ḥereb

Grammar Details

• *yādəʿû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they will know
• *haggôyim*: noun, masculine plural with definite article - the nations
• *baʿăwōnām*: preposition + noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - for their iniquity
• *gālû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they went into exile
• *bêt*: noun, masculine singular construct - house of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *māʿălû*: qal perfect, 3rd plural - they acted unfaithfully
• *bî*: preposition with 1st singular suffix - against me
• *ʾastîr*: hiphil imperfect, 1st singular - I hid
• *pānay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st singular suffix - my face
• *ʾettənēm*: qal imperfect, 1st singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - I gave them
• *yad*: noun, feminine singular construct - hand of
• *ṣārêhem*: qal participle, masculine plural with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their adversaries
• *yippəlû*: qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they fell
• *ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the sword

Word Meanings

• *baʿăwōnām*: for their iniquity/guilt/punishment
• *māʿălû*: acted unfaithfully/treacherously/committed trespass
• *ṣārêhem*: their adversaries/enemies/foes

Referenced Verses

• Isa 1:15 : 15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
• Isa 59:2 : 2 But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.
• Jer 22:8-9 : 8 “‘People from other nations will pass by this city. They will ask one another,“Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?” 9 The answer will come back,“It is because they broke their covenant with the LORD their God and worshiped and served other gods.”
• Lev 26:25 : 25 I will bring on you an avenging sword, a covenant vengeance. Although you will gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you and you will be given into enemy hands.
• Ezek 39:29 : 29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
• Deut 31:17-18 : 17 At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’ 18 But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.
• Deut 32:20 : 20 He said,“I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.
• Deut 32:30 : 30 How can one man chase a thousand of them, and two pursue ten thousand; unless their Rock had delivered them up, and the LORD had handed them over?
• Judg 2:14 : 14 The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.
• Judg 3:8 : 8 The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Armon-Haraim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.
• 2 Chr 7:21-22 : 21 As for this temple, which was once majestic, everyone who passes by it will be shocked and say,‘Why did the LORD do this to this land and this temple?’ 22 Others will then answer,‘Because they abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors, who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.’”
• Ps 10:1 : 1 Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?
• Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
• Ps 106:41 : 41 He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
• Jer 33:5 : 5 ‘The defenders of the city will go out and fight with the Babylonians. But they will only fill those houses and buildings with the dead bodies of the people that I will kill in my anger and my wrath. That will happen because I have decided to turn my back on this city on account of the wicked things they have done.
• Jer 40:2-3 : 2 The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him,“The LORD your God threatened this place with this disaster. 3 Now he has brought it about. The LORD has done just as he threatened to do. This disaster has happened because you people sinned against the LORD and did not obey him.
• Lam 1:8 : 8 ח(Khet) Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame.
• Lam 2:15-17 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?” 16 פ(Pe) All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said,“We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” 17 ע(Ayin) The LORD has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.
• Ezek 36:18-23 : 18 So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 19 I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them. 20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’ 21 I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went. 22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went. 23 I will magnify my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
• Ezek 36:36 : 36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken– and I will do it!’
• Isa 64:7 : 7 No one invokes your name, or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
• Isa 8:17 : 17 I will wait patiently for the LORD, who has rejected the family of Jacob; I will wait for him.
• Isa 42:24 : 24 Who handed Jacob over to the robber? Who handed Israel over to the looters? Was it not the LORD, against whom we sinned? They refused to follow his commands; they disobeyed his law.