Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsNevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.
And Mine eye hath pity on them--against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.
But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEzekiel — The exile prophet — priest taken to Babylon in 597 BC, writing to a community still convinced the exile is temporary. Wheels within wheels, the glory departing, dry bones coming to life, and the city whose new name is YHWH Shammah — ‘the LORD is there.’
- Author
- Ezekiel, son of Buzi the priest (1:3)
- Date
- Dated oracles 593 BC (1:1, fifth year of Jehoiachin's exile) to 571 BC (29:17)