Ezekiel 25:17

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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נְקָמ֣וֹת

nᵉqâmâh

H5360

“vengeance”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 27× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 31:2

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H5359

TWOT: 1413b

vengeance - vengeance (by God, by Israel, by enemies of Israel)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

14: words
11: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

נְקָמ֣וֹת vengeance H5360 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
5 nouns
1 adjective
1 pronoun
2 prepositions
1 conjunction
1 particle

Verb forms

וְעָשִׂ֤יתִי Qal · Sequential Perfect
וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
בְּתִתִּ֥י Qal · Infinitive Construct

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

נְקָמ֣וֹת vengeance H5360 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 14 Hebrew tokens and 19 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 25:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 25:11 and I will execute judgments on Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 25:14 I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.
Psalms 9:16 Yahweh has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.
Ezekiel 5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
Ezekiel 6:7 The slain shall fall in the midst of you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
Ezekiel 25:5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 25:17 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעָשִׂ֤יתִי בָם֙ נְקָמ֣וֹת גְּדֹל֔וֹת בְּתוֹכְח֖וֹת חֵמָ֑ה וְיָֽדְעוּ֙ כִּֽי אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֔ה בְּתִתִּ֥י אֶת נִקְמָתִ֖י בָּֽם

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 25:17 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ἐν αὐτός ἐκδίκησις μέγας καί ἐπιγιγνώσκω διότι ἐγώ κύριος ἐν ὁ δίδωμι ὁ ἐκδίκησις ἐγώ ἐπί αὐτός

And I will execute great vengeance upon them; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have brought my vengeance upon them.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְאַעְבֵּיד בְּהוֹן פּוּרְעֲנוּן רַבְרְבָן בִּתְקוֹף רְגָז וְיֵדְעוּן אֲרֵי אֲנָא יְיָ בִּדְאֶתֵּן יַת פּוּרְעֲנוּתִי בְּהוֹן:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 25:17 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

Ver. 17. And I will execute great vengeance upon them.] Heb., Vengeances. I will pay them for the new and the old together.

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

know . . . vengeance--They shall know Me, not in mercy, but by My vengeance on them (Psa 9:16).

In the twenty-sixth chapter, Ezekiel sets forth:--(1) Tyre's sin; (2) its doom; (3) the instruments executing it; (4) the effects produced on other nations by her downfall. In the twenty-seventh chapter, a lamentation over the fall of such earthly splendor. In the twenty-eighth chapter, an elegy addressed to the king, on the humiliation of his sacrilegious pride. Ezekiel, in his prophecies as to the heathen, exhibits the dark side only; because he views them simply in their hostility to the people of God, who shall outlive them all. Isaiah (Isa. 23:1-18), on the other hand, at the close of judgments, holds out the prospect of blessing, when Tyre should turn to the Lord.

Next: Ezekiel Chapter 26

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

17. with furious rebukes] Wanting in LXX. No agents are mentioned as the destroyers of the Philistines.

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

And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes,.... By way of retaliation for their vengeance and fury, wrath and malice, against his people; suggesting, that the judgments inflicted on them, for quantity and quality, should be very great:

and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them; they shall see the hand of God in it, acknowledge his justice, and confess that their gods were idols, and that the God of Israel is the only true God.

Next: Ezekiel Chapter 26

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

This verse is a confirmation of all spoken against the Philistines, and is in all the particulars explained in what went before.

Vengeance; great for measure, and many for number, vengeances, as the Hebrew.

With furious rebukes; in fierceness of anger, and without pity. They, as other stupid nations, will not see till they feel, and then they shall confess it is the hand of an angry, but just, and mighty God.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

17. They shall know that I am the Lord — The Philistines were led up from Caphtor to Palestine by the same One who led Israel thitherward from Egypt (see Amo_9:7), and they are now punished for the same reason — to bring them to a knowledge of the true God (Eze_6:7). Alas! Philistia refused to learn the lesson to which Israel hearkened.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 14 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is nᵉqâmâh (“vengeance”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word nᵉqâmâh carries the sense “vengeance.” How does it shape the verse?
Numbers 31:2 shares the word «vengeance» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“vengeance” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «וְעָשִׂ֤יתִי» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 14 Hebrew ↔ 19 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 13 words in this verse.
“vengeance” occurs 2× in this single verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 14 words in this verse.