Ezekiel 14:5
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
Ezekiel 14:5 in other translations
| BSB | so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’ |
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| WEB | that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’ |
| ASV | that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. |
| YLT | in order to catch the house of Israel by their heart, in that they have become estranged from off me by their idols--all of them. |
| DARBY | that I may take the house of Israel by their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. |
| BBE | So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods. |
| Webster | That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols. |
What does Ezekiel 14:5 mean?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 14:1-11
Threatenings against hypocrites. (Ezek 14:1-11) God's purpose to punish the guilty Jews, but a few should be saved. (Ezek 14:12-23) Verses 1-11 No outward form or reformation can be acceptable to God, so long as any idol possesses the heart; yet how many prefer their own devices and their own righteousness, to the way of salvation! Men's corruptions are idols in their hearts, and are of their own setting up; God…
Ezekiel 14:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ezekiel 14:5
- Isaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
- Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
- Ezekiel 14:9-10
And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
- Jeremiah 2:11-13
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Deuteronomy 32:15-16
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- Hebrews 3:12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
- Colossians 1:21
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
- Romans 8:7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
- Jeremiah 2:5
Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
- Romans 1:30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
- Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
- Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
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Context
- Ezekiel 14:4
Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
- Ezekiel 14:5
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
- Ezekiel 14:6
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
Ezekiel 14:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Para tomar á la casa de Israel en su corazón, que se han apartado de mí todos ellos en sus ídolos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | afin de prendre la maison d’Israël par leur propre cœur, car ils se sont tous séparés de moi par leurs idoles. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | damit ich das Haus Israel an seinem Herzen fasse, weil sie allesamt durch ihre Götzen von mir abgewichen sind. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ut capiatur domus Israël in corde suo, quo recesserunt a me in cunctis idolis suis. |