17Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the desert.


In Context

14 But for the sake of my name I did what would keep it from being profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

15 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would not bring them into the land I had given them-a land flowing with milk and honey, most beautiful of all lands-

16 because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.

17 Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the desert.

18 I said to their children in the desert, "Do not follow the statutes of your fathers or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.

19 I am the LORD your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Ezekiel 20:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17And Mine eye hath pity on them — against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.