Ezekiel 5 · Verse 7

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;
Ezekiel 5:7, King James Version

Ezekiel 5:7 in other translations

BSBTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
WEB“Therefore the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are around you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have followed the ordinances of the nations that are around you;
ASVTherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
YLTTherefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your multiplying above the nations that are around you, In My statutes ye have not walked, And My judgments ye have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That are round about you ye have not done.
DARBYTherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have been turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept mine ordinances, nor even have done according to the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
BBEFor this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;
WebsterTherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are around 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 around you:

What does Ezekiel 5:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. multiplied--rather, "have been more abundantly outrageous"; literally, "to tumultuate"; to have an extravagant rage for idols. neither have done according to the judgments of the nations--have not been as tenacious of the true religion as the nations have been of the false. The heathen "changed" not their gods, but the Jews changed Jehovah for idols (see Eze 5:6, "changed My judgments into wickedness," that is, idolatry, Jr 2:11). The Chaldean version and the Masora support the negative. Others omit it (as it is omitted in Eze 11:12), and translate, "but have done according to the judgments," &c. However, both Eze 11:12 and also this verse are true. They in one sense "did according to the heathen," namely, in all that was bad; in another, namely, in that which was good, zeal for religion, they did not. Eze 5:9 also proves the negative to be genuine; because in changing their religion, they have not done as the nations which have not changed theirs, "I (also) will do in thee that which I have not done."

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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 5:7 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.

לָכֵ֞ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651
כֹּֽה\־koh-thusH3541
אָמַ֣ר\׀'a.Marhe saysH559
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהוִ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3069
יַ֤עַןYa.'anbecauseH3282
הֲמָנְכֶם֙ha.ma.ne.Khemtumult yourH1995
מִן\־min-[is] more thanH4480
הַגּוֹיִם֙ha.go.Yimthe nationsH1471
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
סְבִיבֽוֹתֵיכֶ֔םse.vi.vo.tei.Khem[are] around youH5439
בְּחֻקּוֹתַי֙be.chu.ko.Taiin statutes myH2708
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
הֲלַכְתֶּ֔םha.lakh.Temyou have walkedH1980
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
מִשְׁפָּטַ֖יmish.pa.Taijudgments myH4941
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
עֲשִׂיתֶ֑ם'a.si.Temyou have observedH6213
וּֽכְמִשְׁפְּטֵ֧יu.khe.mish.pe.Teiand according to [the] judgments ofH4941
הַגּוֹיִ֛םha.go.Yimthe nationsH1471
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
סְבִיבוֹתֵיכֶ֖םse.vi.vo.tei.Khem[are] around youH5439
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
עֲשִׂיתֶֽם\׃\ \ס'a.si.Temyou have doneH6213

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Cross references for Ezekiel 5:7

  • Jeremiah 2:10-11

    For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing. Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

  • 2 Kings 21:9-11

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

  • 2 Chronicles 33:9

    So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Ezekiel 5:11

    Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 16:54

    That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
neither have done.
11; 16:47,48,54; 2Ki 21:9-11; 2Ch 33:9; Jer 2:10,11

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Context

  • 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;

  • Ezekiel 5:8

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

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Ezekiel 5:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová: ¿Por haberos multiplicado más que á las gentes que están alrededor de vosotros, no habéis andado en mis mandamientos, ni habéis guardado mis leyes? Ni aun según las leyes de las gentes que están alrededor de vosotros habéis hecho.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est pourquoi, ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel: Parce que votre turbulence a été plus grande que celle des nations qui sont autour de vous, parce que vous n’avez point marché dans mes statuts et n’avez point pratiqué mes ordonnances, et que vous n’avez pas même agi selon les droits établis des nations qui sont autour de vous, –
German
Elberfelder 1871
Darum spricht der Herr, Jehova, also: Weil ihr getobt habt, mehr als die Nationen, die rings um euch her sind, in meinen Satzungen nicht gewandelt und meine Rechte nicht getan habt, ja, selbst nach den Rechten der Nationen, die rings um euch her sind, nicht getan habt,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Idcirco hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Quia superastis gentes quæ in circuitu vestro sunt, et in præceptis meis non ambulastis, et judicia mea non fecistis, et juxta judicia gentium quæ in circuitu vestro sunt non estis operati,