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Ezekiel 5

Ezek. 5:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Wherefore, as I live
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
; Surely, because thou hast defiled
tame' (Hebrew #2930)
to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)
KJV usage: defile (self), pollute (self), be (make, make self, pronounce) unclean, X utterly.
Pronounce: taw-may'
Origin: a primitive root
my sanctuary
miqdash (Hebrew #4720)
from 6942; a consecrated thing or place, especially, a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum
KJV usage: chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary.
Pronounce: mik-dawsh'
Origin: or miqqdash (Exod. 15:17) {mik-ked-awsh'}
n with all thyo detestable things
shiqquwts (Hebrew #8251)
from 8262; disgusting, i.e. filthy; especially idolatrous or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable filth (idol, -ation), detestable (thing).
Pronounce: shik-koots'
Origin: or shiqquts {shik-koots'}
, and with all thine abominations
tow`ebah (Hebrew #8441)
feminine active participle of 8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol
KJV usage: abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
Pronounce: to-ay-baw'
Origin: or tonebah {to-ay-baw'}
, therefore will I also diminish
gara` (Hebrew #1639)
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
KJV usage: abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
Pronounce: gaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
p thee; neither shall mine eye
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
spare
chuwc (Hebrew #2347)
properly, to cover, i.e. (figuratively) to compassionate
KJV usage: pity, regard, spare.
Pronounce: khoos
Origin: a primitive root
, neither will I have any pity
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
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as I live.
Num. 14:28‑35• 28Say unto them, As surely as I live, saith Jehovah, if I do not do unto you as ye have spoken in mine ears!
29In this wilderness shall your carcases fall; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number from twenty years old and upwards, who have murmured against me,
30shall in no wise come into the land, concerning which I have lifted up my hand to make you dwell in it; save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
31But your little ones, of whom ye said they should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land that ye have despised.
32And as to you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
33And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
34After the number of the days in which ye have searched out the land, forty days, each day for a year shall ye bear your iniquities forty years, and ye shall know mine estrangement from you.
35I Jehovah have spoken; I will surely do it unto all this evil assembly which have gathered together against me! in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
(Num. 14:28‑35)
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Psa. 95:11• 11So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest. (Psa. 95:11)
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Amos 8:7• 7Jehovah hath sworn by the glory of Jacob, Certainly I will never forget any of their works. (Amos 8:7)
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Heb. 6:13• 13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself, (Heb. 6:13)
thou hast.
Ezek. 8:5‑6,16• 5And he said unto me, Son of man, lift up now thine eyes toward the north. And I lifted up mine eyes toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar, this image of jealousy in the entry.
6And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, to cause me to go far off from my sanctuary? And yet again thou shalt see great abominations.
16And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house, and behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
(Ezek. 8:5‑6,16)
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Ezek. 23:28• 28For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will give thee over into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy soul is alienated. (Ezek. 23:28)
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Ezek. 44:7• 7in that ye have brought strangers, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when ye offered my bread, the fat and the blood; and they have broken my covenant besides all your abominations. (Ezek. 44:7)
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2 Kings 21:4,7• 4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
7And he set the graven image of the Asherah that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;
(2 Kings 21:4,7)
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2 Kings 23:12• 12And the king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, and he shattered them, removing them from thence, and cast the powder of them into the torrent of Kidron. (2 Kings 23:12)
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2 Chron. 33:4,7• 4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
7And he set the graven image of the idol that he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;
(2 Chron. 33:4,7)
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2 Chron. 36:14• 14All the chiefs of the priests also, and the people, increased their transgressions, according to all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 36:14)
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Jer. 7:9‑11• 9What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not …
10then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered,--in order to do all these abominations!
11Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.
(Jer. 7:9‑11)
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Jer. 32:34• 34And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it; (Jer. 32:34)
detestable.
will I.
neither shall.
Ezek. 7:4,9• 4And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity; but I will bring thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.
(Ezek. 7:4,9)
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Ezek. 8:18• 18And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. (Ezek. 8:18)
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Ezek. 9:5,10• 5And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have pity.
10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense their way upon their head.
(Ezek. 9:5,10)
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Ezek. 24:14• 14I Jehovah have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, nor will I repent. According to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 24:14)
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Deut. 29:20• 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens; (Deut. 29:20)
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Lam. 2:21• 21The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, thou hast not spared. (Lam. 2:21)
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Zech. 11:6• 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand. (Zech. 11:6)
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Mal. 3:17• 17And they shall be unto me a peculiar treasure, saith Jehovah of hosts, in the day that I prepare; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (Mal. 3:17)
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Rom. 8:32• 32He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things? (Rom. 8:32)
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Rom. 11:21• 21if God indeed has not spared the natural branches; lest it might be he spare not thee either. (Rom. 11:21)
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2 Peter 2:4‑5• 4For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;
5and spared not the old world, but preserved Noe, the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, having brought in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(2 Peter 2:4‑5)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verilye because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any pity.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "if ... not." A strong form of solemn declaration. see Num. 14.23.