Ezekiel 20:38

World English Bible (2000)

and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and those who disobey against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

📖 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 shall be against the prophets who see false visions, and who divine lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
• Ps 95:11 : 11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."
• Amos 9:9-9 : 9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth. 10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil won't overtake nor meet us.'
• Zech 13:8-9 : 8 It shall happen that in all the land," says Yahweh, "two parts in it will be cut off and die; but the third will be left in it. 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• Mal 3:3 : 3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.
• Mal 4:1-3 : 1 "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall. 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.
• Matt 25:32-33 : 32 Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
• Jer 44:14 : 14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
• Ezek 6:7 : 7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
• Ezek 11:21 : 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 15:7 : 7 I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
• Ezek 23:49 : 49 They shall recompense your lewdness on you, and you shall bear the sins of your idols; and you shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 34:17-22 : 17 As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats. 18 Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet? 19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet. 20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. 21 Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad; 22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.
• Rom 9:27-29 : 27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved; 28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth." 29 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."
• 1 Cor 10:5 : 5 However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
• Heb 4:3 : 3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, "As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest;" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
• Heb 4:6 : 6 Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,
• Jude 1:5 : 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.
• Matt 3:9-9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
• Matt 3:12 : 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire."
• Num 14:28-30 : 28 Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me, 30 surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.