Ezekiel 29 · Verse 11

Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
Ezekiel 29:11, King James Version

Ezekiel 29:11 in other translations

BSBNo foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.
WEBNo foot of man will pass through it, nor will any animal foot pass through it. It won’t be inhabited for forty years.
ASVNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
YLTNot pass over into it doth a foot of man, Yea, the foot of beast doth not pass into it, Nor is it inhabited forty years.
DARBYNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor shall foot of beast pass through it, nor shall it be inhabited, forty years.
BBENo foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.
WebsterNo foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

What does Ezekiel 29:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. forty years--answering to the forty years in which the Israelites, their former bondsmen, wandered in "the wilderness" (compare Note, see on Eze 29:5). Jerome remarks the number forty is one often connected with affliction and judgment. The rains of the flood in forty days brought destruction on the world. Moses, Elias, and the Saviour fasted forty days. The interval between Egypt's overthrow by Nebuchadnezzar and the deliverance by Cyrus, was about forty years. The ideal forty years' wilderness state of social and political degradation, rather than a literal non-passing of man or beast for that term, is mainly intended (so Eze 4:6; Is 19:2, 11).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 29:1-16

The desolation of Egypt. (Ezek 29:1-16) Also a promise of mercy to Israel. (Ezek 29:17-21) Verses 1-16 Worldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property, forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol which all the world worships, in contempt of God and his sovereignty. God can force men out of that in which they are most…

Read the full comment on Ezekiel 29:1-16 →

Ezekiel 29:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹ֤אlo'notH3808
תַעֲבָר\־ta.'a.vor-it will passH5674
בָּהּ֙bahin it
רֶ֣גֶלRe.gel[the] foot ofH7272
אָדָ֔ם'a.Damhuman[s]H120
וְרֶ֥גֶלve.Re.geland [the] foot ofH7272
בְּהֵמָ֖הbe.he.Mahanimal[s]H929
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תַעֲבָר\־ta.'a.vor-it will passH5674
בָּ֑הּBahin it
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
תֵשֵׁ֖בte.Shevit will remainH3427
אַרְבָּעִ֥ים'ar.ba.'ImfortyH705
שָׁנָֽה\׃sha.Nahyear[s]H8141

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 29:11

  • Ezekiel 32:13

    I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

  • Jeremiah 43:11-12

    And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword. And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

  • Ezekiel 31:12

    And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

  • Ezekiel 30:10-13

    Thus saith the Lord God; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain. And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the Lord have spoken it. Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

  • Ezekiel 33:28

    For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

  • Ezekiel 36:28

    And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

  • Daniel 9:2

    In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:21

    To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.

  • Jeremiah 25:11-12

    And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

  • Isaiah 23:17

    And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

  • Isaiah 23:15

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

  • Jeremiah 29:10

    For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
foot of man.
30:10-13; 31:12; 32:13; 33:28; 36:28; Jer 43:11,12
forty.
2Ch 36:21; Isa 23:15,17; Jer 25:11,12; 29:10; Da 9:2

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Context

  • Ezekiel 29:10

    Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

  • Ezekiel 29:11

    No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

  • Ezekiel 29:12

    And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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Ezekiel 29:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No pasará por ella pie de hombre, ni pie de bestia pasará por ella; ni será habitada por cuarenta años.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		le pied de l’homme n’y passera pas, et le pied de la bête n’y passera pas; et il ne sera pas habité pendant 40 ans.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Der Fuß des Menschen wird es nicht durchwandern, und der Fuß des Tieres wird es nicht durchwandern, und es wird nicht bewohnt sein, vierzig Jahre.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Non pertransibit eam pes hominis, neque pes jumenti gradietur in ea, et non habitabitur quadraginta annis.