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 cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their territory. You will never again rob them of their children. 13“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The other nations taunt you, saying, ‘Israel is a land that devours its own people and robs them of their children!’ But you will never again devour your people or rob them of their children, says the Sovereign Lord. 15I will not let you hear those other nations insult you, and you will no longer be mocked by them. You will not be a land that causes its nation to fall, says the Sovereign Lord.” 16Then this further message came to me from the Lord:

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 my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren after them will live there forever, generation after generation. And my servant David will be their prince forever.
• Isaiah 60:21All your people will be righteous. They will possess their land forever, for I will plant them there with my own hands in order to bring myself glory.
• Amos 9:15I will firmly plant them there in their own land. 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
• 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