Ezekiel 20:17

In 11 translations

BSB

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.

KJV

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

WEB

Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn’t destroy them. I didn’t make a full end of them in the wilderness.

ASV

Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

LSV

And My eye has pity on them—against destroying them, || And I have not made an end of them in the wilderness.

YLT

And Mine eye hath pity on them — against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.

DBY

But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

DRC

Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

GNV

Neuerthelesse, mine eye spared them, that I would not destroye them, neither would I consume them in the wildernes.

JPS

Nevertheless Mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

LXXE

Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

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WLC

וַתָּ֧חָס עֵינִ֛י עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מִֽשַּׁחֲתָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־עָשִׂ֧יתִי אוֹתָ֛ם כָּלָ֖ה בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐφείσατο ὁ ὀφθαλμός μου ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς, τοῦ ἐξαλεῖψαι αὐτοὺς, καὶ οὐκ ἐποίησα αὐτοὺς εἰς συντέλειαν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.

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• Ezekiel 11:13Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”
• Jeremiah 4:27For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
• Jeremiah 5:18“Yet even in those days,” declares the LORD, “I will not make a full end of you.
• Ezekiel 9:10But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
• Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
• Nehemiah 9:19You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
• Psalms 78:37–38Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant. And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full…
• 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the…
• Nahum 1:8–9But with an overwhelming flood He will make an end of Nineveh and pursue His enemies into darkness. Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
• Ezekiel 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

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