What Does Ezekiel 35:11 Mean?
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your burning, and according to your envy, which you have done from your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.
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King James Version
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.THE KEY
The verse makes judgment the moment God becomes known within the very conflict hatred drives.
THE MEANING
It holds before you now a severe truth: God answers the anger, envy, and hatred directed against others, and becomes known among those who witness the judgment. The verse leaves the violence of that answer exposed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that hatred can stay hidden from God or escape its consequences.
THE ROOT
וְנוֹדַעְתִּי
wənōḏaʿtî
GROWS FROM
י־ד־ע
To know, recognize, or perceive.
The word translated “make myself known” comes from ידע (yada), the root of knowing and recognition. Here, knowing is an encounter with what God does: judgment becomes the event through which God’s nature is recognized among them.
ALSO GROWS
yada: To know, recognize, or perceive.
This is the verb at the root of “make myself known.”
da'at: Knowledge or knowing.
The related noun shows the same root holding both the act of knowing and the knowledge that results.
yodea: One who knows or recognizes.
This form connects knowing to the one who perceives; in the verse, those among whom God is known become witnesses to the judgment.
THE PATTERN
God’s judgment makes divine character publicly knowable.
And the Egyptians shall perceive that I am the LORD, when I stretch out my hand upon Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.The LORD is known in the judgment he makes; the wicked is snared in the deed of his own palms. Higgaion. Selah.Who will not stand in awe of you, Lord, and give weight to your name? For you alone are set apart, and all the nations come and bow down before your face, for your judgments are made visible.THE THREAD
Thus I will make myself great, and set myself apart; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they will perceive that I am the LORD.Ezekiel 38:23 repeats the same root: “I will be known” and “they shall know” both grow from ידע (yada). It opens Ezekiel 35:11 by showing judgment as a disclosure through which God’s nature becomes recognizable among its witnesses.
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