Ezekiel 3:19

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn't turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּה֙ כִּֽי־הִזְהַ֣רְתָּ רָשָׁ֔ע וְלֹא־שָׁב֙ מֵֽרִשְׁע֔וֹ וּמִדַּרְכּ֖וֹ הָרְשָׁעָ֑ה ה֚וּא בַּעֲוֺנ֣וֹ יָמ֔וּת וְאַתָּ֖ה אֶֽת־נַפְשְׁךָ֥ הִצַּֽלְתָּ׃

Transliteration

And you weʾattāh when kî-hizhartā rāšāʿ and not welōʾ-šāḇ from his mērišʿô and from his ûmiddarkô hārešāʿāh, he hûʾ in his baʿăwōnô shall die yāmûṯ, and you weʾattāh ʾeṯ-your nap̄šeḵā have delivered hiṣṣaltā.

Grammar Details

• *weʾattāh*: conjunction + 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - and you
• *kî*: conjunction - when/if
• *hizhartā*: Hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you warned
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular noun - wicked one
• *welōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *šāḇ*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he returned/repented
• *mērišʿô*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - from his wickedness
• *ûmiddarkô*: conjunction + preposition + feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - and from his way
• *hārešāʿāh*: definite article + adjective, feminine singular - the wicked
• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *baʿăwōnô*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his iniquity
• *yāmûṯ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he shall die
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *nap̄šeḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your soul
• *hiṣṣaltā*: Hiphil perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you have delivered

Word Meanings

• *kî*: when/if/because
• *hizhartā*: you warned/cautioned/admonished
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked one/evildoer/criminal
• *šāḇ*: he returned/repented/turned back
• *rešaʿ*: wickedness/evil/wrongdoing
• *dereḵ*: way/path/journey
• *hārešāʿāh*: the wicked/evil/criminal
• *ʿāwōn*: iniquity/guilt/punishment
• *nep̄eš*: soul/life/self
• *hiṣṣaltā*: you have delivered/saved/rescued

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 14:14 : 14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
• Ezek 14:20 : 20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
• Ezek 33:9 : 9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he doesn't turn from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
• Acts 18:5-6 : 5 But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 6 When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
• Acts 20:26 : 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,
• 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
• Heb 2:1-3 : 1 Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense; 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation-- which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• Heb 10:26-27 : 26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you don't refuse him who speaks. For if they didn't escape when they refused him who warned on the Earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
• 2 Cor 2:15-17 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus, 9 who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Luke 10:10-11 : 10 But into whatever city you enter, and they don't receive you, go out into the streets of it and say, 11 'Even the dust from your city that clings to us, we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the Kingdom of God has come near to you.'
• Acts 13:45-46 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed. 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.
• Ezek 33:5 : 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and didn't take warning; his blood shall be on him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
• 2 Kgs 17:13-23 : 13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn you from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets. 14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn't believe in Yahweh their God. 15 They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them. 16 They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal. 17 They caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. 18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. 19 Also Judah didn't keep the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. 21 For he tore Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a great sin. 22 The children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they didn't depart from them; 23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
• Prov 29:1 : 1 He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Isa 49:4-5 : 4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice [due] to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God. 5 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);
• Jer 42:19-22 : 19 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day. 20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it: 21 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent me to you. 22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire to go to sojourn there.
• Jer 44:4-5 : 4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
• Ezek 3:18 : 18 When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
• Ezek 3:21 : 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.