Ezekiel 20:17
Good News Translation
"But then I took pity on them. I decided not to kill them there in the desert.

New Revised Standard Version
Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or make an end of them in the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
Yet, I felt sorry for them and could not let them die in the desert.

New American Bible
But I looked on them with pity, not wanting to destroy them, so I did not put an end to them in the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

mine

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Ezekiel 9:10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.

1 Samuel 24:10 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Psalm 78:37,38 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. . . .

neither

Ezekiel 7:2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land.

Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

Jeremiah 4:27 For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Jeremiah 5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

Nahum 1:8,9 But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies. . . .

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
16Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. 17Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:27
For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

Ezekiel 11:13
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:22
But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight.

Ezekiel 20:16
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