What Does Ezekiel 36:15 Mean?
Nor will I cause people to hear in you the shame of the nations any more, nor will you bear the reproach of the people any more, nor will you cause your nations to fall any more, says the Lord GOD.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.THE KEY
Restoration here is not merely inward comfort; it changes what is spoken about you, what you bear, and what your presence causes.
THE MEANING
The voice of contempt does not have the final word over you: what is said against you is silenced, the reproach you bear is lifted, and your life no longer causes a people to stumble. Restoration reaches what is said about you, what rests on you, and what moves through you to others.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief is that public disgrace is your permanent identity and that the harm associated with you can never change.
THE ROOT
כְּלִמַּת
kelimmat
GROWS FROM
כ־ל־ם
k-l-m
To shame, disgrace, or humiliate.
English can make shame sound like a private feeling, but this word names disgrace made public. The promise reaches what is heard about you, not only what you feel inside.
ALSO GROWS
kelimmah: Shame or disgrace.
כְּלִמָּה
This related form shows that the verse names an imposed humiliation, not simply an inward mood.
nikhlam: Humiliated or put to shame.
נִכְלָם
The same root can describe the person made to bear disgrace, echoing the verse’s movement from shame spoken about you to reproach carried by you.
חֶרְפַּת
cherpat
GROWS FROM
ח־ר־ף
ḥ-r-p
To taunt, revile, or heap scorn upon.
Reproach is contempt directed at someone and made socially audible. Here, its weight no longer rests on you as a public burden.
ALSO GROWS
cherpah: Reproach, scorn, or disgrace.
חֶרְפָּה
This noun form shows the contempt the verse says you no longer bear.
charaf: To taunt or revile.
חָרַף
The verb exposes the action behind reproach: people directing scorn at someone.
תַכְשִׁלִי
takshili
GROWS FROM
כ־ש־ל
k-sh-l
To stumble, totter, or cause to stumble.
“cause thy nations to fall” in this verse is takshili. The final clause moves beyond reputation to consequence: your condition is no longer a cause of stumbling for a people. The promise reaches not only how you are spoken of and what you carry, but what flows outward from you.
ALSO GROWS
mikshol: A stumbling block or obstacle.
מִכְשׁוֹל
This branch makes visible the kind of hindrance the verse says will no longer come through you.
nikhshal: One who stumbles or falls.
נִכְשָׁל
This form names the person affected by stumbling, widening the verse’s concern to the people who fall.
THE PATTERN
Restoration ends shame’s authority as a public verdict and makes room for a life no longer defined by disgrace.
Do not fear, for you will not be put to shame. Do not be brought low, for you will not be disgraced. You will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the taunt of your widowhood any longer.And you will perceive that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and there is none else, and my people shall never be ashamed for the ages.For the writing says, Everyone who leans their full weight on him will not be put to shame.THE THREAD
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the yield of the field, so that you will bear no more the reproach of hunger among the nations.“Reproach” in both verses comes from ח־ר־ף (ḥ-r-p), the root of taunting and scorn. Here, the reproach is tied to famine: the same restoration that lifts the burden of contempt also changes the conditions that made it visible.
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