Bible Strands
Ezekiel 20:43
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — God speaks through Ezekiel to the house of Israel during a prophetic declaration concerning their future return to the land He swore to give their fathers. The moment occurs within a sequence of judgments and restorations where God establishes His identity before the exiled nation.
The words — The Hebrew verb זְכַרְתֶּם (ze.khar.tem) translates literally as "you will remember," anchored by שָׁם (Sham), meaning "there." These terms specify a future location where Israel will confront the defiling practices they committed.
The thread — This pattern of captive remembrance appears in Ezekiel 6:9, where survivors remember God in the nations, and Hosea 5:15, where God waits until they admit guilt in affliction. Jeremiah 31:18 continues the sequence by describing Ephraim’s repentance after receiving discipline.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to acknowledge their own defiling actions and accept the resulting self-loathing as a direct consequence of evil. It demands a clear-eyed confrontation of personal and corporate sin without evasion or excuse.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 6:9 Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
- Hosea 5:15 Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
- Jeremiah 31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.
- Ezekiel 36:31 Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominations.
- Leviticus 26:39 Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- Nehemiah 1:8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- Job 42:6 Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
- Ezekiel 16:61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of My covenant with you.
- Zechariah 12:10 Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- Luke 18:13 But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’