Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
But I spared them from destruction and did not bring them to an end in the wilderness.
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.
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And mine eye will spare for them from destroying them, and I made not a completion with them in the desert
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 My ordinances, profaned My Sabbaths, and did not follow My statutes. For their hearts went after their idols.
Cross References
Ezekiel 11:13
Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died.
Jeremiah 4:27
For this is what the Lord says:
but I will not finish it off.
Jeremiah 5:18
“But even in those days”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“I will not finish you off.
1 Samuel 24:10
You can see with your own eyes that the Lord handed you over to me today in the cave.
Nehemiah 9:19
because of Your great compassion.
During the day the pillar of cloud
never turned away from them,
guiding them on their journey.
And during the night the pillar of fire
illuminated the way they should go.
Psalm 78:37-38
and they were unfaithful to His covenant.
Ezekiel 7:2
“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says to the land of Israel:
on the four corners of the land.
Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath.
Ezekiel 9:10
But as for Me, I will not show pity or spare them.
Nahum 1:8-9
with an overwhelming flood,
and He will chase His enemies into darkness.