Ezekiel 36 · Verse 25

Ezekiel 36:25

Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:25, King James Version

Ezekiel 36:25 in other translations

BSBI will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.
WEBI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
ASVAnd I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
YLTAnd I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.
DARBYAnd I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols will I cleanse you.
BBEAnd I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.
WebsterThen will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

What does Ezekiel 36:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
25. The external restoration must be preceded by an internal one. The change in their condition must not be superficial, but must be based on a radical renewal of the heart. Then the heathen, understanding from the regenerated lives of God's people how holy God is, would perceive Israel's past troubles to have been only the necessary vindications of His righteousness. Thus God's name would be "sanctified" before the heathen, and God's people be prepared for outward blessings. sprinkle ... water--phraseology taken from the law; namely, the water mixed with the ashes of a heifer sprinkled with a hyssop on the unclean (Nu 19:9-18); the thing signified being the cleansing blood of Christ sprinkled on the conscience and heart (He 9:13, 14; 10:22; compare Jr 33:8; Ep 5:26). from all your idols--Literal idolatry has ceased among the Jews ever since the captivity; so far, the prophecy has been already fulfilled; but "cleansing from all their idols," for example, covetousness, prejudices against Jesus of Nazareth, is yet future.

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 25 Then - At the time of this great restoration - will I sprinkle clean water upon you - the truly cleansing water; the influences of the Holy Spirit typified by water, whose property it is to cleanse, whiten, purify, refresh, render healthy and fruitful. From all your filthiness - From every sort of external and internal abomination and pollution. And from all your idols - False gods, false worship, false opinions, and false hopes. Will I cleanse you - Entirely separate you.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 36:25-38
Water is an emblem of the cleansing our polluted souls from sin. But no water can do more than take away the filth of the flesh. Water seems in general the sacramental sign of the sanctifying influences of the Holy Ghost; yet this is always connected with the atoning blood of Christ. When the latter is applied by faith to the conscience, to cleanse it from evil works, the former is always applied to the powers of the soul, to purify it from the pollution of sin. All that have an interest in the new covenant, have a new heart and a new spirit, in order to their walking in newness of life. God would give a heart of flesh, a soft and tender heart, complying with his holy will. Renewing grace works as great a change in the soul, as the turning a dead stone into living flesh. God will put his Spirit within, as a Teacher, Guide, and Sanctifier. The promise of God's grace to fit us for our duty, should quicken our constant care and endeavour to do our duty. These are promises to be pleaded by, and will be fulfilled to, all true believers in every age.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Ezekiel 36:25 in the original Hebrew

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וְזָרַקְתִּ֧יve.za.rak.Tiand I will sprinkleH2236
עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם'a.lei.Khemon youH5921
מַ֥יִםMa.yimwaterH4325
טְהוֹרִ֖יםte.ho.RimpureH2889
וּטְהַרְתֶּ֑םu.te.har.Temand you will be pureH2891
מִכֹּ֧לmi.Kolfrom allH3605
טֻמְאוֹתֵיכֶ֛םtum.'o.tei.Khemuncleanness<es> yourH2932
וּמִכָּל\־u.mi.kol-and from allH3605
גִּלּ֥וּלֵיכֶ֖םgi.Lu.lei.Khemidols yourH1544
אֲטַהֵ֥ר'a.ta.HerI will purifyH2891
אֶתְכֶֽם\׃'et.Khem<obj.> youH853

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 36:25

  • Hebrews 10:22

    Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

  • John 3:5

    Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

  • Jeremiah 33:8

    And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

  • 1 John 1:7

    But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

  • Titus 3:5-6

    Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

  • Ephesians 5:26-27

    That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

  • Isaiah 4:4

    When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

  • Zechariah 13:1-2

    In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

  • Psalms 51:7

    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

  • Titus 2:14

    Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  • Psalms 51:2

    Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

  • Hebrews 9:19

    For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
will I.
Le 14:5-7; Nu 8:7; 19:13-20; Ps 51:7; Isa 52:15; Joh 3:5; Tit 3:5,6
Heb 9:13,14,19; 10:22; 1Jo 5:6
filthiness.
17,29; 37:23; Ps 51:2; Pr 30:12; Isa 4:4; Jer 33:8; Zec 13:1
Ac 22:16; 1Co 6:11; 2Co 7:1; Eph 5:26,27; Tit 2:14; 1Jo 1:7; Re 1:5
Re 7:14
from all your idols.
Isa 2:18-20; 17:7,8; Jer 3:22,23; Ho 14:3,8; Zec 13:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 36:24

    For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.

  • Ezekiel 36:25

    Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

  • Ezekiel 36:26

    A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

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Ezekiel 36:25 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y esparciré sobre vosotros agua limpia, y seréis limpiados de todas vuestras inmundicias; y de todos vuestros ídolos os limpiaré.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et je répandrai sur vous des eaux pures, et vous serez purs: je vous purifierai de toutes vos impuretés et de toutes vos idoles.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ich werde reines Wasser auf euch sprengen, und ihr werdet rein sein; von allen euren Unreinigkeiten und von allen euren Götzen werde ich euch reinigen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et effundam super vos aquam mundam, et mundabimini ab omnibus inquinamentis vestris, et ab universis idolis vestris mundabo vos.