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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)But you will never again devour your people or rob them of their children, says the Sovereign Lord.

Context of Ezekiel 36:14

12I will cause people, my people Israel, to live on you. They will possess you, and you will be their inheritance; you will never again deprive them of their children. 13“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because some say to you, “You devour people and deprive your nation of its children,” therefore you will no longer devour people or make your nation childless, declares the Sovereign Lord. 15No longer will I make you hear the taunts of the nations, and no longer will you suffer the scorn of the peoples or cause your nation to fall, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ” 16Again the 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, the land where your ancestors lived. They and their children and their children’s children will live there forever, and David my servant will be their prince forever.
• Isaiah 60:21Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land forever. They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.
• Amos 9:15I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to 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
• 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