Ezekiel 20:17 “Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them…”

Ezekiel 20:17

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

World English Bible

Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

American Standard Version

Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Geneva Bible 1599

Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroye them, neither would I consume them in the wildernes.

Darby Translation

But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Young's Literal Translation

And Mine eye hath pity on them — against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.

Bible in Basic English

But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.

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Cross references

“mine”

Ezekiel 8:18 Ezekiel 9:10 1 Samuel 24:10 Nehemiah 9:19 Psalm 78:37 Psalm 78:38

Ezekiel 8:18 · BSB

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10 · BSB

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

1 Samuel 24:10 · BSB

Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the LORD’s…

Nehemiah 9:19 · BSB

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

Psalm 78:37 · BSB

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Psalm 78:38 · BSB

And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

“neither”

Ezekiel 11:13 Jeremiah 4:27 Jeremiah 5:18 Ezekiel 7:2 Nahum 1:8 Nahum 1:9

Ezekiel 11:13 · BSB

Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”

Jeremiah 4:27 · BSB

For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.

Jeremiah 5:18 · BSB

“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.

Ezekiel 7:2 · BSB

“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Nahum 1:8 · BSB

But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness.

Nahum 1:9 · BSB

Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

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