What Does Ezekiel 11:7 Mean in the King James?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The city is named as a cauldron, yet the verse’s final movement is out of its very midst.
THE MEANING
You can be inside a place whose violence is real and whose center is marked by the dead. Still, the enclosing place does not own the final movement: the verse speaks of being brought out from its very midst.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that a place already filled with death has the power to make everyone inside it doomed to the same fate.
THE ROOT
הוֹצֵאתִי
hotze'ti
GROWS FROM
יָצָא
yatsa
To go out or come forth; in the causative form, to bring someone out.
“bring you forth” in this verse is hotze'ti. The verb shifts from going out to causing someone to go out. The verse repeats “midst” to mark the precise place of confinement, then uses this root for movement out of that place.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: Go out, come out.
יָצָא
The basic form names the movement that the verse’s speaker causes for those still inside the city.
hotsi: Bring out, cause to go out.
הוֹצִיא
This causative branch makes the promise concrete: the people are not merely allowed to leave; they are brought out.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance takes the form of being brought out of a place or condition that holds a person within it.
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.THE THREAD
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.The same root, יָצָא (yatsa), carries both verses’ movement of bringing people out. Exodus names a people brought out of Egypt; Ezekiel’s verse names people brought out from the city’s deadly midst, giving its final verb the force of an exit from confinement.
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