For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
So the Lord Yahweh says this: I will raise up a company against them and give them up to be terrorized and plundered.
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For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.
For thus saith the Lord GOD: I will bring up an assembly against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and spoiled.
Wherefore thus sayth the Lord God, I will bring a multitude vpon them, and will giue them vnto the tumult, and to the spoyle,
For thus saith the Lord God: Bring a multitude upon them, and deliver them over to tumult and rapine:
For thus said the Lord Jehovah: Bring up against them an assembly, And give them to trembling and to spoiling.
For thus said Lord YHWH: Bring up an assembly against them, || And give them to trembling and to spoiling.
So the Lord Yahweh says this: I will raise up a company against them and give them up to be terrorized and plundered.
So the Lord Yahweh says this: I will raise up a company against them and give them up to be terrorized and plundered.
For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up an assemblage against them, and will give them to be driven hither and thither and spoiled.
“For the Lord GOD says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and plundered.
This is what the Lord God says: Have a mob attack them! Make them terrified and rob them.
For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.
For thus saith the Lord GOD: An assembly shall be brought up against them, and they shall be made a horror and a spoil.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְזַעֲוָ֥ה terror H2189 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְזַעֲוָ֥ה terror H2189 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 15 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 23:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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כִּ֛י כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הַעֲלֵ֤ה עֲלֵיהֶם֙ קָהָ֔ל וְנָתֹ֥ן אֶתְהֶ֖ן לְזַעֲוָ֥ה וְלָבַֽז
For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὅδε λέγω κύριος κύριος ἀναἄγω ἐπί αὐτός ὄχλος καί δίδωμι ἐν αὐτός ταραχή καί διαρπαγή
Thus says the Lord God, Bring up a multitude upon them, and send trouble and plunder into the midst of them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
כִּדְנַן אֲמַר יְיָ אֱלֹהִים אִיתְנַבֵּי דְיִסְקוּן עֲלֵיהוֹן מַשִׁרְיָן וְאֶמְסַר יַתְהוֹן לִתְבִיר וּלְבִזָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zaʻăvâh (“terror”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Ezekiel 23:46 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.