Ezekiel 15 · Verse 8

Ezekiel 15:8

And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 15:8, King James Version

Ezekiel 15:8 in other translations

BSBThus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
WEBI will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,” says the Lord GOD.
ASVAnd I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord Jehovah.
YLTAnd I have made the land a desolation, Because they have committed a trespass, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
DARBYAnd I will make the land a desolation, because they have wrought unfaithfulness, saith the Lord Jehovah.
BBEAnd I will make the land a waste because they have done evil, says the Lord.
WebsterAnd I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord GOD.

What does Ezekiel 15:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. trespass--rather, "they have perversely fallen into perverse rebellion." The Jews were not merely sinners as the other nations, but revolters and apostates. It is one thing to neglect what we know not, but quite another thing to despise what we profess to worship [Jerome], as the Jews did towards God and the law.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 They have committed a trespass - They have prevaricated; they are the worst of sinners, and shall have the heaviest of punishments. Can men suppose that it is possible to hide even their dark hearts from God?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Ezekiel 15:8 in the original Hebrew

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וְנָתַתִּ֥יve.na.ta.Tiand I will makeH5414
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776
שְׁמָמָ֑הshe.ma.Maha desolationH8077
יַ֚עַןYa.'anbecauseH3282
מָ֣עֲלוּMa.'a.luthey have acted unfaithfullyH4603
מַ֔עַלMa.'alunfaithfulnessH4604
נְאֻ֖םne.'Um[the] utterance ofH5002
אֲדֹנָ֥י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהוִֽה\׃\ \פYah.wehYahwehH3069

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Cross references for Ezekiel 15:8

  • Ezekiel 6:14

    So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 14:13-21

    Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate. …

  • Isaiah 6:11

    Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,

  • Jeremiah 25:10-11

    Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle. And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

  • Zephaniah 1:18

    Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

  • Ezekiel 17:20

    And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

  • Ezekiel 33:29

    Then shall they know that I am the Lord, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.

  • Isaiah 24:3-12

    The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word. The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish. The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. …

  • 2 Chronicles 36:14-16

    Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will.
6:14; 14:13-21; 33:29; Isa 6:11; 24:3-12; Jer 25:10,11; Zep 1:18
committed a trespass. Heb. trespassed a trespass.
2Ch 36:14-16

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Context

  • Ezekiel 15:7

    And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.

  • Ezekiel 15:8

    And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 15:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y tornaré la tierra en asolamiento, por cuanto cometieron prevaricación, dice el Señor Jehová.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et je ferai du pays une désolation, parce qu’ils ont commis le péché, dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde das Land zur Wüste machen, weil sie Treulosigkeit begangen haben, spricht der Herr, Jehova.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
et dedero terram inviam et desolatam, eo quod prævaricatores extiterint, dicit Dominus Deus.