What Does Ezekiel 12:28 Mean in the King James?
Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD.
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 word that seems stretched out in time is already moving toward becoming what is done.
THE MEANING
You meet God’s word here as speech moving into action, not as a promise left suspended forever. Its delay reaches a limit; what has been spoken comes to be done.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a long delay means the word has been abandoned or can remain only speech.
THE ROOT
תִּמָּשֵׁךְ
timmāshekh
GROWS FROM
משך
To draw or pull along; in this form, to be drawn out or prolonged.
“prolonged” in this verse is timmāshekh. English makes delay sound like time simply passing, while the Hebrew carries the image of something being drawn out. Here, that stretching stops: the spoken word reaches its doing.
ALSO GROWS
māshakh: To draw or pull.
מָשַׁךְ
In Psalm 28:3 the same root appears in “Draw me not away,” giving “prolonged” the concrete image of being pulled along.
moshchei: Those who draw or pull.
מֹשְׁכֵי
Isaiah 5:18 uses this form for people who “draw iniquity with cords,” showing the root’s image of something being dragged along.
דָּבָר
dābār
GROWS FROM
דבר
To speak; the noun דָּבָר can mean a word, matter, or thing.
English separates the word spoken from the event that follows it. Hebrew דָּבָר can name both a word and a matter or thing, and this verse moves from the spoken word to its being done.
ALSO GROWS
adabber: I speak.
אֲדַבֵּר
This form of the same root appears in “the word which I have spoken,” tying the word directly to the act of speaking.
dābār: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
The verse repeats this noun as it moves from God’s words to the word that shall be done.
THE PATTERN
A word from God moves toward what is done.
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD.The same root behind “prolonged” appears here: the spoken word will not be drawn out any longer, but will come to pass. Verse 28 gathers that movement from speech to action into one final statement.
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