What Does Ezekiel 5:9 Mean in the King James?
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
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 repeated “do” carries the Hebrew root for “make”: this is not an announced feeling but an act, marked as unprecedented and unrepeatable.
THE MEANING
The verse confronts you now with a promised judgment of such severity that it is named as without precedent and never to be repeated. Its stated cause is the full accumulation of detestable acts. The violence stays explicit: the act is directed against the one addressed, without softening its severity.
THE ROOT
עָשָׂה
asah
GROWS FROM
עשה
to do, make, or bring about
The Hebrew verb עָשָׂה (asah, “do” or “make”) appears repeatedly in the verse: “I will do,” “I have not done,” and “I will not do.” Its range holds making and acting together, giving the announced judgment the weight of a deed, not merely a declaration.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: work, deed, or act
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun from the same root shows how the verse’s repeated verb carries the sense of an accomplished deed.
ʿoseh: one who does or makes
עֹשֶׂה
This form preserves the root’s joining of action and making, the same joining present in the repeated “do” of the verse.
תּוֹעֲבוֹתָיִךְ
toʿavotayikh
GROWS FROM
תעב
to abhor or regard as detestable
“abominations” in this verse is toʿavotayikh. The word names a whole accumulation of what is regarded as abhorrent. Its root also appears as a verb for abhorring, so the verse describes not a vague mistake but acts held in detestation.
ALSO GROWS
taʿav: to abhor or treat as detestable
תָּעַב
The verb names the abhorrence carried by the noun “abominations.”
toʿevah: an abomination, a detestable thing
תּוֹעֵבָה
This singular form shows that the verse’s plural refers to multiple acts or things regarded as abhorrent.
THE PATTERN
When corruption fills the measure, scripture describes its consequences as breaking familiar limits.
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.THE THREAD
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.“Made” in Genesis and “do” in Ezekiel share the Hebrew root עשה (asah, “do” or “make”). The same root names the making of what is declared very good and the terrible deed announced here, holding creation and judgment in one word.
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