Ezekiel 36:14

Ezekiel 36:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.
• New International Version (NIV)therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord.
• English Standard Version (ESV)therefore you shall no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Lord God.
• New King James Version (NKJV)therefore you shall devour men no more, nor bereave your nation anymore,” says the Lord God.

Context of Ezekiel 36:14

12I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children. 13“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,” therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the sovereign Lord. 15I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.’” 16The word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 36:14 word by word

לָכֵ֗ן אָדָם֙ לֹא־תֹ֣אכְלִי ע֔וֹד וְגוֹיַ֖יִךְ לֹ֣א תְשַׁכְּלִי ע֑וֹד נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore thou shalt devourאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• menאָדָם'âdâm · manH120
• no more, neither bereaveכָּשַׁלkâshal · to stumbleH3782
• no more, neither bereaveשָׁכֹלshâkôl · be bereavedH7921
• thy nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• any more, saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136
• Godיְהֹוִהyehôvih · YHWH/GodH3069

Cross-references for Ezekiel 36:14

• Ezekiel 37:25They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.
• Isaiah 60:21All of your people will be godly; they will possess the land permanently. I will plant them like a shoot; they will be the product of my labor, through whom I reveal my splendor.
• Amos 9:15I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 36:14

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Bereave - Or, as in the margin: i. e., the land shall not prove the ruin of its inhabitants by tempting them (as of old time) to the sin of idolatry.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-15The destruction of Edom (chapter 35) would prepare the way for the restoration of the mountains of Israel, reversing the devastation threatened in chapter 6.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. bereave--so the Keri, or Hebrew Margin reads, to correspond to "bereave" in Eze 36:13; but "cause to fall" or "stumble," in the Hebrew text or Chetib, being the more difficult reading, is the one least likely to come from a corrector; also, it forms a good transition to the next subject, namely, the moral cause of the people's calamities, namely, their falls, or stumblings through sin. The latter ceasing, the former also cease. So the same expression…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 36:14

• Israel, Prophecies Concerning

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Call
• Ezekiel, Book of
• Sanctify
• Settle
• Shame
• Uncleanness
• Bereave; Bereaver; Bereft
• Ezekiel

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