Ezekiel 21:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And known have all flesh that I, Jehovah, Have brought out My sword from its scabbard, It doth not turn back any more.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֹמַ֕ר אֲהָ֖הּ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הֵ֚מָּה אֹמְרִ֣ים לִ֔י הֲלֹ֛א מְמַשֵּׁ֥ל מְשָׁלִ֖ים הֽוּא׃ פ

Transliteration

And-ʾōmar ʾăhāh ʾăḏōnāy YHWH they ʾōmərîm to-me hălōʾ məmaššēl məšālîm he. [p]

Grammar Details

• *ʾōmar*: qal imperfect 1st singular with waw consecutive - and I said
• *ʾăhāh*: interjection - ah/alas
• *ʾăḏōnāy*: plural noun with 1st person suffix as divine title - my Lord
• *ʾōmərîm*: qal participle masculine plural - saying/those who say
• *hălōʾ*: interrogative particle with negative - is not
• *məmaššēl*: piel participle masculine singular - one who speaks
• *məšālîm*: masculine plural - parables/proverbs
• *p*: paragraph marker in the Hebrew text

Word Meanings

• *ʾăhāh*: ah/alas/woe
• *məmaššēl*: speaker of/composer of/one who utters
• *məšālîm*: parables/proverbs/allegories/riddles

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 21:30 : 30 Turn `it' back unto its scabbard, In the place where thou wast produced, In the land of thy birth I do judge thee.
• Nah 1:9 : 9 What do we devise against Jehovah? An end He is making, arise not twice doth distress.
• 1 Sam 3:12 : 12 In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;
• Jer 23:20 : 20 The anger of Jehovah doth not turn back Till His doing, and till His establishing, The thoughts of His heart, In the latter end of the days ye attend to it With understanding.
• Ezek 20:48 : 48 And seen have all flesh, that I, Jehovah, have kindled it -- it is not quenched.'
• Num 14:21-23 : 21 and yet, I live -- and it is filled -- the whole earth -- `with' the honour of Jehovah; 22 for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice -- 23 they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;
• Deut 29:24-28 : 24 yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger? 25 `And they have said, Because that they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah, God of their fathers, which He made with them in His bringing them out of the land of Egypt, 26 and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them -- gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them; 27 and the anger of Jehovah burneth against that land, to bring in on it all the reviling that is written in this book, 28 and Jehovah doth pluck them from off their ground in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath, and doth cast them unto another land, as `at' this day.
• 1 Kgs 9:7-9 : 7 then I have cut off Israel from the face of the ground that I have given to them, and the house that I have hallowed for My name I send away from My presence, and Israel hath been for a simile and for a byword among all the peoples; 8 as to this house, `that' is high, every one passing by it is astonished, and hath hissed, and they have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house? 9 and they have said, Because that they have forsaken Jehovah their God, who brought out their fathers from the land of Egypt, and they lay hold on other gods, and bow themselves to them, and serve them; therefore hath Jehovah brought in upon them all this evil.'
• Isa 45:23 : 23 By Myself I have sworn, Gone out from my mouth in righteousness hath a word, And it turneth not back, That to Me, bow doth every knee, every tongue swear.
• Isa 55:11 : 11 So is My word that goeth out of My mouth, It turneth not back unto Me empty, But hath done that which I desired, And prosperously effected that `for' which I sent it.