Ezekiel 16:27
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.”
נָטָה
To incline, to stretch out, to bend. Natah. He inclined His ear to me. God bends down to listen. He positions Himself to hear the faintest cry of His people.
עַל
on/ you
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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יָד
hand/ my
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יָד
Hand. Yad. The hand as the symbol of power and action. When God's hand rests on a life nothing is impossible.
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בַּת
the daughters of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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חֹק
allotment/ your
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חֹק
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
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פְּלִשְׁתִּי
the Philistines
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פְּלִשְׁתִּי
a Pelishtite or inhabitant of Pelesheth
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זִמָּה
licentiousness
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זִמָּה
a plan, especially a bad one
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שָׂנֵא
those who hate/ you
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שָׂנֵא
to hate (personally)
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