EZEKIEL 18:23

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?”

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Ezekiel 18:23 Translation & Meaning

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Have I any pleasure הֶחָפֹ֤ץ Properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire any pleasure
at all אֶחְפֹּץ֙ Properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire all
that the wicked רָשָׁ֔ע Morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person wicked
should die? מ֣וֹת Death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin should die
saith נְאֻ֖ם An oracle saith
the Lord אֲדֹנָ֣י The Lord (used as a proper name of God only) Lord
God: יְהוִ֑ה God God
and (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
not הֲל֛וֹא Not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles not
that he should return בְּשׁוּב֥וֹ To turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again should return
from his ways, מִדְּרָכָ֖יו A road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb ways
and live? וְחָיָֽה׃ To live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive live

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  • 21  But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

  • 22  All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

  • 23  Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

  • 24  But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

  • 25  Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?




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