Ezekiel 6:8-10
Legacy Standard Bible
8 “However, I will leave a (A)remnant, for you will have those who (B)escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the lands. 9 Then those of you who escape will (C)remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have (D)been broken over their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will (E)loathe themselves to their own faces for the evils which they have done, for all their abominations. 10 Then they will know that I am Yahweh; I have not said in vain that I would do this calamitous evil against them.”’
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 6:8-10
New English Translation
8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.[a] 9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize[b] how I was crushed by their unfaithful[c] heart that turned from me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves[d] because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices. 10 They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.[e]
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Ezekiel 6:8 tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”
- Ezekiel 6:9 tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”
- Ezekiel 6:9 tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.
- Ezekiel 6:9 tn Heb adds “in their faces.”
- Ezekiel 6:10 tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).
Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org For Permission to Quote Information visit https://www.LSBible.org.
NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.