Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And mine eye will spare for them from destroying them, and I made not a completion with them in the desert
New American Standard Bible
Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their
King James Version
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Holman Bible
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
International Standard Version
Even then, I looked on them with compassion and didn't completely destroy them in the wilderness.
A Conservative Version
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroyed them, nor did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
American Standard Version
Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Amplified
Yet My eye [looked on them with compassion and] spared them instead of destroying them, and I did not annihilate them in the wilderness.
Bible in Basic English
But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.
Darby Translation
But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
King James 2000
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and {I did not completely destroy them} in the desert.
Modern King James verseion
But My eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Nevertheless, mine eye spared them, so that I would not utterly slay them, and consume them in the wilderness.
NET Bible
Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.
New Heart English Bible
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
The Emphasized Bible
Nevertheless mine eye threw a shield over them that they should not be destroyed; So I made not of them a full end in the desert.
Webster
Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
World English Bible
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Mine eye hath pity on them -- against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ezekiel 20:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Dealings With Israel For His Name's Sake
16 Because they rejected upon my judgments, and my laws they went not in them, and my Sabbaths they profaned: for their heart went after their blocks. 17 And mine eye will spare for them from destroying them, and I made not a completion with them in the desert 18 And saying to their sons in the desert Ye shall not go in the laws of your fathers, and their judgments ye shall not watch, and with their blocks ye shall not be defiled.:
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:13
And it will be as I prophesied, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, died. And I shall fall upon my face and cry with a great voice, and saying, Ah. Lord Jehovah, thou makest a completion with the remnant of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:27
For thus said Jehovah, All the earth shall be a desert; and I will not make a completion.
Jeremiah 5:18
And also in those days, says Jehovah, I will not make with you a completion.
1 Samuel 24:10
Behold, this day thine eyes saw that Jehovah gave thee this day into my hand in the cave: and it was said to kill thee; and it had pity upon thee, and saying, I will not stretch forth my hand against my lord, for he is Jehovah's Messiah.
Nehemiah 9:19
And thou in thy many compassions forsookest them not in the desert: not removing the pillar of cloud from above them in the day to guide them in the way; and the pillar of fire in the night, to enlighten to them, and the way that they shall go in it
Psalm 78:37-38
And their heart was not right with him, and they were not firm in his covenant
Ezekiel 7:2
And thou son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah to the land of Israel: An end, the end came upon the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 8:18
And also I will do in wrath: mine eye shall not spare and I will not pity: and they shall call in mine ear with a great voice, and I will not hear them.
Ezekiel 9:10
And also I, mine eye shall not spare, and I will not pity, I gave their way upon their head.
Nahum 1:8-9
With an inundation passing through he will make a completion of her place, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.