Ezekiel 18:31

World English Bible (2000)

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַשְׁלִ֣יכוּ מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֗ם אֶת־כָּל־פִשְׁעֵיכֶם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֣ם בָּ֔ם וַעֲשׂ֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם לֵ֥ב חָדָ֖שׁ וְר֣וּחַ חֲדָשָׁ֑ה וְלָ֥מָּה תָמֻ֖תוּ בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

hašlîkû mē- ʿălêkem ʾet-kol-pišʿêkem ʾăšer pəšaʿtem bām wa- ʿăśû lākem lēb ḥādāš wə- rûaḥ ḥădāšāh wə- lāmmāh tāmûtû bêt yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *hašlîkû*: Hiphil imperative masculine plural - cast away
• *mē-*: preposition - from
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - upon you
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *kol*: construct state, masculine singular - all of
• *pišʿêkem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine plural suffix - your transgressions
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which, that
• *pəšaʿtem*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine plural - you have transgressed
• *bām*: preposition with 3rd masculine plural suffix - with them
• *wa-*: conjunction - and
• *ʿăśû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - make
• *lākem*: preposition with 2nd masculine plural suffix - for yourselves
• *lēb*: masculine singular noun - heart
• *ḥādāš*: adjective masculine singular - new
• *wə-*: conjunction - and
• *rûaḥ*: feminine singular noun - spirit
• *ḥădāšāh*: adjective feminine singular - new
• *lāmmāh*: interrogative - why
• *tāmûtû*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will die
• *bêt*: masculine singular construct - house of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *hašlîkû*: cast away/throw off/discard
• *pišʿêkem*: your transgressions/your rebellions/your crimes
• *pəšaʿtem*: you have transgressed/you have rebelled/you have offended
• *lēb* *ḥādāš*: new heart/renewed mind/transformed inner being
• *rûaḥ* *ḥădāšāh*: new spirit/renewed attitude/transformed disposition

Referenced Verses

• Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
• Ezek 11:19 : 19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
• Isa 1:16-17 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. 17 Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow."
• Ezek 33:11 : 11 Tell them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, house of Israel?
• Ezek 36:26 : 26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• Ezek 20:7 : 7 I said to them, Cast away every man the abominations of his eyes, and don't defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
• Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
• Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Jer 21:8 : 8 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
• Jer 27:15 : 15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Ps 34:14 : 14 Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
• Prov 8:36 : 36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."
• Isa 30:22 : 22 You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"
• Matt 12:33 : 33 "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
• Matt 23:26 : 26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
• Acts 3:19 : 19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
• Acts 13:46 : 46 Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• Eph 4:22-32 : 22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another. 26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 neither give place to the devil. 28 Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need. 29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
• Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; 8 but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. 9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,
• Jas 1:21 : 21 Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
• Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
• 1 Pet 2:1 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries. 4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:
• Deut 30:15 : 15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;