you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.
Ezekiel 20:17 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make an end of them in the wilderness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet My eye pitied them instead of destroying them, and I did not make a full end of them in the wilderness. American Standard Version (1901) Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. Common English Bible But I had too much compassion to destroy them, so I didn’t put an end to them in the desert. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert. |
you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud that led them in the way did not leave them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night that gave them light on the way by which they should go.
For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end.
But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not make a full end of you.
Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell down on my face, cried with a loud voice, and said, “Ah Lord God! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?”
But I withheld my hand, and acted for the sake of my name, so that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.
You, O mortal, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”
As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring down their deeds upon their heads.”
This very day your eyes have seen how the Lord gave you into my hand in the cave; and some urged me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not raise my hand against my lord; for he is the Lord's anointed.’