Ezekiel 5 · Verse 6

Ezekiel 5:6

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
Ezekiel 5:6, King James Version

Ezekiel 5:6 in other translations

BSBBut she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
WEBShe has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
ASVAnd she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
YLTAnd she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that are round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes--they have not walked in them.
DARBYAnd she hath rebelled against my judgments in wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for mine ordinances have they refused; and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
BBEAnd she has gone against my orders by doing evil more than the nations, and against my rules more than the countries round her: for they have given up my orders, and as for my rules, they have not gone in the way of them.
WebsterAnd she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

What does Ezekiel 5:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 5:5-6

5-6. Explanation of the symbols: Jerusalem--not the mere city, but the people of Israel generally, of which it was the center and representative. in ... midst--Jerusalem is regarded in God's point of view as center of the whole earth, designed to radiate the true light over the nations in all directions. Compare Margin ("navel"), Eze 38:12; Psa 48:2; Jr 3:17. No center in the ancient heathen world could have been…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 She hath changed my judgments - God shows the reason why he deals with Jerusalem in greater severity than with the surrounding nations; because she was more wicked than they. Bad and idolatrous as they were, they had a greater degree of morality among them than the Jews had. Having fallen from the true God, they became more abominable than others in proportion to the height, eminence, and glory from which they had fallen. This is the common case of backsliders; they frequently, in their fall, become tenfold more the children of wrath than they were before.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 5:5-17

The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare. Let not persons or churches, who change the Lord's statutes, expect to escape the doom of Jerusalem. Let us endeavour to adorn the doctrine of…

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Ezekiel 5:6 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.

וַתֶּ֨מֶרva.Te.merand it has rebelled againstH4784
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מִשְׁפָּטַ֤יmish.pa.Taijudgments myH4941
לְרִשְׁעָה֙le.rish.'Ahto wickednessH7564
מִן\־min-more thanH4480
הַגּוֹיִ֔םha.go.Yimthe nationsH1471
וְאֶ֨ת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
חֻקּוֹתַ֔יchu.ko.Taistatutes myH2708
מִן\־min-more thanH4480
הָאֲרָצ֖וֹתha.'a.ra.Tzotthe landsH776
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
סְבִיבוֹתֶ֑יהָse.vi.vo.Tei.ha[are] around itH5439
כִּ֤יkiforH3588
בְמִשְׁפָּטַי֙ve.mish.pa.Tai<in> judgments myH4941
מָאָ֔סוּma.'A.suthey have rejectedH3988
וְחֻקּוֹתַ֖יve.chu.ko.Taiand statutes myH2708
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
הָלְכ֥וּha.le.Khuthey have walkedH1980
בָהֶֽם\׃\ \סva.Hemin them

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Cross references for Ezekiel 5:6

  • Jeremiah 11:10

    They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Ezekiel 16:47-48

    Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

  • Zechariah 7:11

    But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

  • 2 Kings 17:8-20

    And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger: …

  • Nehemiah 9:16-17

    But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

  • Psalms 78:10

    They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

  • Ezekiel 16:51

    Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

  • Jeremiah 5:3

    O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Jeremiah 8:5

    Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

  • Romans 1:23-25

    And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

  • Deuteronomy 32:15-21

    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. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee. …

  • Jude 1:4

    For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

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she hath.
16:47; De 32:15-21; 2Ki 17:8-20; Ps 106:20; Ro 1:23-25; 1Co 5:1
Jude 1:4
for they.
Ne 9:16,17; Ps 78:10; Jer 5:3; 8:5; 9:6; 11:10; Zec 7:11

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Context

  • Ezekiel 5:5

    Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

  • Ezekiel 5:6

    And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

  • Ezekiel 5:7

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

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Ezekiel 5:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y ella mudó mis juicios y mis ordenanzas en impiedad más que las gentes, y más que las tierras que están alrededor de ella; porque desecharon mis juicios y mis mandamientos, y no anduvieron en ellos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et, dans sa méchanceté, elle a été rebelle à mes jugements plus que les nations, et à mes statuts, plus que les pays qui sont autour d’elle; car ils ont rejeté mes jugements et n’ont point marché dans mes statuts.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und es war widerspenstig gegen meine Rechte in Gesetzlosigkeit, mehr als die Nationen, und gegen meine Satzungen, mehr als die Länder, welche rings um dasselbe her sind; denn meine Rechte haben sie verworfen, und in meinen Satzungen haben sie nicht gewandelt.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et contempsit judicia mea, ut plus esset impia quam gentes, et præcepta mea ultra quam terræ quæ in circuitu ejus sunt: judicia enim mea projecerunt, et in præceptis meis non ambulaverunt.