Ezekiel 43:10

What does Ezekiel 43:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Ezekiel 43:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Thou, son of man, Shew the house of Israel the house, And they are ashamed of their iniquities, And they have measured the measurement.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

But thou, son of man, shew to the house of Israel the temple, and let them be ashamed of their iniquities, and let them measure the building:

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Thou, son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be confounded at their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

Context

v.9Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

v.10This passage

v.11And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 16:61

    Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder sisters and thy younger; and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

  • Exodus 25:40

    And see that thou make them after their pattern, which hath been showed thee in the mount.

  • Romans 6:21

    What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

  • Ezekiel 23:31

    Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.

  • Ezekiel 16:63

    that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:19

    All this, said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of Jehovah, even all the works of this pattern.

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