What Does Ezekiel 5:13 Mean in the King James?
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in 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
Here the LORD’s “comfort” comes only after the fury has been completed upon them.
THE MEANING
The verse places you before a judgment that reaches completion: the LORD’s fury rests upon them until the word is carried out. Its claim is blunt: once the fury is fulfilled, you know who has spoken it and with what zeal.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The idea that this is only an empty threat: the verse says the fury is completed upon them.
THE ROOT
חֵמָה
ḥēmāh
GROWS FROM
ח־מ־ה
ḥ-m-h
To be hot; heat.
“anger / fury” in this verse is ḥēmāh. The KJV uses both “anger” and “fury” for the same Hebrew word, returning to one image of heat. That heat rests upon them and is carried to completion.
ALSO GROWS
ḥōm: Heat, warmth.
חֹם
This branch preserves the physical image inside the word for fury.
ḥāmāh: To grow hot, rage.
חָמָה
The verb turns the noun’s heat into an active, burning anger.
וְכִלִּיתִי
wekhillîtî
GROWS FROM
כ־ל־ה
k-l-h
To finish, complete, or bring to an end; in some forms, to consume.
The Hebrew verb makes the LORD the one completing the fury, and the root appears again in “when I have accomplished my fury.” Completion is the hinge of the sentence.
ALSO GROWS
takhlit: End, completion, utmost.
תַּכְלִית
This branch gives completion the sense of a reached endpoint.
killayon: Consumption, destruction.
כְּלָיוֹן
This branch shows how the same root can carry completion through to consuming destruction.
נָחַם
nāḥam
GROWS FROM
נ־ח־ם
n-ḥ-m
To console or be comforted; also, to relent.
This root carries both consolation and relenting. Here “comforted” follows the completed fury, naming the LORD’s response after the judgment has been carried out.
ALSO GROWS
niḥam: Be comforted; relent.
נִחַם
This form holds consolation and relenting within the same root.
niḥēm: Comfort, console.
נִחֵם
This form makes the comforting sense explicit while keeping the shared root visible.
THE PATTERN
Judgment is pictured as divine heat poured out to its full measure and carried to its end.
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.THE THREAD
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.The Hebrew root נ־ח־ם (n-ḥ-m, comfort or relent) also stands behind Jeremiah’s “I will repent.” Jeremiah uses it for relenting from announced harm; Ezekiel uses it for being comforted after fury is completed, letting the shared root’s meaning open differently in each passage.
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