Ezekiel 20:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I `am' Jehovah your God, in My statutes walk, And My judgments observe, and do them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲנִי֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֔ם בְּחֻקּוֹתַ֖י לֵ֑כוּ וְאֶת־מִשְׁפָּטַ֥י שִׁמְר֖וּ וַעֲשׂ֥וּ אוֹתָֽם

Transliteration

ʾănî YHWH your ʾĕlōhêkem, in my ḥuqqôtay lēkû and my mišpāṭay šimrû and ʿăśû them

Grammar Details

• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your God
• *bə-ḥuqqôtay*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - in my statutes
• *lēkû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - walk!
• *wə-ʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *mišpāṭay*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my judgments
• *šimrû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - keep/observe!
• *wa-ʿăśû*: conjunction + Qal imperative masculine plural - and do!
• *ʾôtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them

Word Meanings

• *YHWH*: Yahweh, the LORD (divine name)
• *ʾĕlōhêkem*: your God, your deity
• *ḥuqqôtay*: my statutes, my decrees, my prescribed laws
• *lēkû*: walk, follow, live according to
• *mišpāṭay*: my judgments, ordinances, legal decisions
• *šimrû*: keep, observe, guard
• *ʿăśû*: do, perform, fulfill

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:2-3 : 2 I `am' Jehovah thy God, who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants. 3 `Thou hast no other Gods before Me.
• Deut 4:1 : 1 `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.
• Deut 5:1 : 1 And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Hear, Israel, the statutes and the judgments which I am speaking in your ears to-day, and ye have learned them, and have observed to do them.
• Deut 5:6-7 : 6 `I Jehovah `am' thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants. 7 `Thou hast no other gods in My presence.
• Deut 5:32-6:8 : 32 `And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left; 33 in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and `it is' well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess. 1 `And this `is' the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, 2 so that thou dost fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all His statutes and His commands, which I am commanding thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all days of thy life, and so that thy days are prolonged. 3 `And thou hast heard, O Israel, and observed to do, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest multiply exceedingly, as Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath spoken to thee, `in' the land flowing with milk and honey. 4 `Hear, O Israel, Jehovah our God `is' one Jehovah; 5 and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might, 6 and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, 7 and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, 8 and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes,
• Deut 7:4-6 : 4 for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily. 5 `But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn with fire; 6 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground.
• Deut 8:1 : 1 `All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;
• Deut 10:1-9 : 1 `At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood, 2 and I write on the tables the words which were on the first tables, which thou hast broken, and thou hast placed them in the ark; 3 and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand. 4 `And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me, 5 and I turn and come down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made, and they are there, as Jehovah commanded me. 6 `And the sons of Israel have journeyed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan to Mosera, there Aaron died, and he is buried there, and Eleazar his son doth act as priest in his stead; 7 thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water. 8 `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day, 9 therefore there hath not been to Levi a portion and inheritance with his brethren; Jehovah Himself `is' his inheritance, as Jehovah thy God hath spoken to him. 10 `And I -- I have stood in the mount, as the former days, forty days and forty nights, and Jehovah hearkeneth unto me also at that time; Jehovah hath not willed to destroy thee. 11 `And Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go to journey before the people, and they go in and possess the land which I have sworn to their fathers to give to them. 12 `And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
• Deut 11:1 : 1 `And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;
• Deut 12:1 : 1 `These `are' the statutes and the judgments which ye observe to do in the land which Jehovah, God of thy fathers, hath given to thee to possess it, all the days that ye are living on the ground:
• Neh 9:13-14 : 13 `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands. 14 And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;
• Ps 19:7-9 : 7 The law of Jehovah `is' perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah `are' stedfast, Making wise the simple, 8 The precepts of Jehovah `are' upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah `is' pure, enlightening the eyes, 9 The fear of Jehovah `is' clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah `are' true, They have been righteous -- together. 10 They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb. 11 Also -- Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them `is' a great reward.'
• Ps 81:9-9 : 9 There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god. 10 I `am' Jehovah thy God, Who bringeth thee up out of the land of Egypt. Enlarge thy mouth, and I fill it.
• Ps 105:45 : 45 That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!
• Jer 3:22-23 : 22 Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art' Jehovah our God. 23 Surely in vain from the heights, The multitude of mountains -- Surely in Jehovah our God `is' the salvation of Israel.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.
• Ezek 37:24 : 24 And My servant David `is' king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.
• Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, 12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, 13 waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;