What Does Ezekiel 34:27 Mean in the King James?
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
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 field gives again when the exploiting hand loses its grip; release is the hinge between bondage and abundance.
THE MEANING
Your life is no longer held under another’s consuming hand: the tree gives fruit, the earth gives increase, and you are secure on your own ground. You know the LORD through the lived reality of a broken yoke and provision returned.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that survival requires remaining under the hand that exploits you: here, safety arrives after that grip is broken.
THE ROOT
בְּשִׁבְרִי
be-shivri
GROWS FROM
שבר
sh-b-r
to break, shatter
“broken” in this verse is be-shivri. The yoke’s bands are shattered, and the same root carries the sense of fracture and ruin. Safety follows the breaking apart of the structure that holds people under exploitation.
ALSO GROWS
shever: fracture, breaking, ruin
שֶׁבֶר
It shows the force of the break named in the verse: the binding structure is brought to an end.
shavur: broken, shattered
שָׁבוּר
This form describes the condition of the yoke after its bands are broken.
וְנָתַן
ve-natan titen
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
to give, set, place
The Hebrew verb beneath both “yield” clauses is natan, “give”: the tree gives its fruit and the earth gives its increase. Abundance appears as giving restored after the people are released from those who use them.
ALSO GROWS
ve-natan: and it shall give
וְנָתַן
The tree is pictured as giving its fruit.
titen: you shall give
תִּתֵּן
The same root names the earth giving its increase.
וְיָדְעוּ
ve-yad'u
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
to know, recognize, perceive
“know” in this verse is ve-yad'u. Knowing follows a lived change: the yoke breaks, the land gives, and safety becomes present. Yada points to recognition through encounter, so the LORD is known in the reality of release and provision, not merely as information.
ALSO GROWS
yada: to know, perceive
יָדַע
It names the knowing that comes with the people’s changed condition.
da'at: knowledge, understanding
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root echoes the knowing that becomes tangible in the verse.
THE PATTERN
When oppressive control is broken, release opens the way to provision, safety, and knowing the LORD.
And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,THE THREAD
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.Leviticus 26:13 uses the same root, שבר (sh-b-r), for breaking the bands of the yoke. Ezekiel shows what follows that breaking: on your own ground, the earth gives, safety returns, and the LORD is known.
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