God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 36:13
13“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: People say that you devour your people and take the children away from your nation.
Ezekiel 36:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Thus says the Lord God: Because they say to you, 'You devour people, and you bereave your nation of children,'
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they say to you, ‘You devour men and bereave your nation of children,’
Context of Ezekiel 36:13
11I will increase the number of people and animals that live on you. They will grow and become many. I will let people live on you as in the past, and I will make you better off than ever before. Then you will know that I am the Lord. 12I will bring people, my people Israel, to you. They will take possession of you, and you will be their inheritance. You will no longer take their children away from them. “ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: People say that you devour your people and take the children away from your nation. 14So you will no longer devour your people or take the children away from your nation, declares the Almighty Lord. 15I will no longer let you hear the insults from the nations. You will no longer suffer the disgrace of the people. You will never again take the children away from your own nation, declares the Almighty Lord.’ ”
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כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֔ה יַ֚עַן אֹמְרִ֣ים לָכֶ֔ם אֹכֶ֥לֶת אָדָ֖ם אָ֑תְּ וּמְשַׁכֶּ֥לֶת גּוֹיַ֖יִךְ הָיִֽית׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:13
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13The judgments which God sent upon the land, had so destroyed the inhabitants that men deemed it a fatal land, which brought destruction to all that should occupy it (compare 2 Kings 17:25).Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-13God intended the land to provide plenty for his people and their children. Instead, it took their children and consumed its own people. This happened because Israel did not follow the covenant, leading to the Lord's judgment with disastrous effects for them and their children (see Ezekiel 5:17). Now that the people were changing, they would receive the covenant blessing of a fruitful land.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1313. Thou land devourest up men--alluding to the words of the spies (Nu 13:32). The land personified is represented as doing that which was done in it. Like an unnatural mother it devoured, that is, it was the grave of its people; of the Canaanites, its former possessors, through mutual wars, and finally by the sword of Israel; and now, of the Jews, through internal and external ills; for example, wars, famine (to which Eze 36:30, "reproach of famine among…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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