Ezekiel 5:11

⁹ Because of all your abominations, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again.

¹⁰ As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’

Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

¹² A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.

¹³ And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.
KJV: 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.
WEB: Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
ASV: Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, 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, and I also will have no pity.
DARBY: Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any pity.
BLB: Therefore, [by] the life of Me—a declaration of the Lord YHWH—surely because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, My eye will not at all show pity, and I also will not have pity, and I—I will diminish [you]!

ÅB: Derfor, så sant jeg lever, sier Herren, Israels Gud, sannelig, fordi du har gjort min helligdom uren med alle dine avskyeligheter og alle dine styggedommer, så vil også jeg vende mitt øye bort fra deg uten skånsel og ikke spare deg.
OTB: Derfor, så sant jeg lever, sier Herren Gud, fordi du har vanhelliget mitt helligdom med alle dine avskyelige avguder og vederstyggeligheter, vil jeg trekke meg tilbake, og mitt øye vil ikke spare, og jeg vil ikke ha medlidenhet.
B1930: Derfor, så sant jeg lever, sier Herren, Israels Gud, sannelig, fordi du har gjort min helligdom uren med alle dine avskyeligheter og alle dine vederstyggeligheter, så vil også jeg vende mitt øie bort fra dig uten skånsel og ikke spare dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 7:20
His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
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2 Chronicles 36:14
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 7:4
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
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Ezekiel 8:5–6
“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
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Ezekiel 11:18
When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.
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Jeremiah 7:9–11
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
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Ezekiel 7:9
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
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Lamentations 2:21
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
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