New International Version I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. New Living Translation “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. English Standard Version I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. Berean Standard Bible I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. Berean Literal Bible And I will sprinkle on you⁺ pure water, and you⁺ will be pure from all your⁺ uncleannesses, and from all your⁺ idols I will purify you⁺. King James Bible Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. New King James Version Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. New American Standard Bible Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. NASB 1995 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. NASB 1977 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Legacy Standard Bible Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. Amplified Bible Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols. Berean Annotated Bible I will also sprinkle clean water on you⁺, and you⁺ will be clean. I will cleanse you⁺ from all your⁺ impurities and all your⁺ idols. Christian Standard Bible I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. Holman Christian Standard Bible I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. American Standard Version And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Contemporary English Version I will sprinkle you with clean water, and you will be clean and acceptable to me. I will wash away everything that makes you unclean, and I will remove your disgusting idols. English Revised Version And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. GOD'S WORD® Translation I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols. Good News Translation I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you. International Standard Version I'll sprinkle pure water on you all, and you'll be cleansed from your impurity and from all of your idols." NET Bible I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. New Heart English Bible I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Webster's Bible Translation Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleI will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. World English Bible I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd I have sprinkled clean water over you, "" And you have been clean; I cleanse you from all your uncleannesses, "" And from all your idols. Berean Literal Bible And I will sprinkle on you⁺ pure water, and you⁺ will be pure from all your⁺ uncleannesses, and from all your⁺ idols I will purify you⁺. Young's Literal Translation And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you. Smith's Literal Translation And I sprinkled clean waters upon you, and ye were cleansed: from all your uncleannesses and from all your blocks will I cleanse you. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will pour clean water over you, and you shall be cleansed from all your filth, and I will cleanse you from all your idols. New American Bible I will sprinkle clean water over you to make you clean; from all your impurities and from all your idols I will cleanse you. New Revised Standard Version I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThen I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and I shall purify you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And I shall sprinkle upon you pure waters, and I shall purify you from all your filth and from all your idols OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Brenton Septuagint Translation and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible (Voice ▾ Musical ▾) Context A New Heart and Spirit…24For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land. 25I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols. 26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.… Cross References I will also sprinkle clean water on you, Numbers 19:17-19 For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them. / Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person who has died or been slain. / The man who is ceremonially clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and on the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being cleansed must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and that evening he will be clean. Hebrews 10:22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Leviticus 14:7 Seven times he shall sprinkle the one to be cleansed of the skin disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and release the live bird into the open field. and you will be clean. Psalm 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. John 13:10 Jesus told him, “Whoever has already bathed needs only to wash his feet, and he will be completely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” Titus 3:5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. I will cleanse you from all your impurities Jeremiah 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against Me. Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity. 1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. and all your idols. Zechariah 13:2 And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land. Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations. 1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God Jeremiah 31:33 “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people. John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Isaiah 1:16-18 Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil! / Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.” / “Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. Treasury of Scripture Then will I sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. will I Leviticus 14:5-7 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: … Numbers 8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean. Numbers 19:13-20 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him… filthiness Ezekiel 36:17,29 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman… Ezekiel 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. Psalm 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. from all your idols Isaiah 2:18-20 And the idols he shall utterly abolish… Isaiah 17:7,8 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel… Jeremiah 3:22,23 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God… Jump to Previous Clean Cleanse Filthiness Idols Images Impurities Sprinkle Sprinkled Unclean Uncleannesses Water WaysJump to Next Clean Cleanse Filthiness Idols Images Impurities Sprinkle Sprinkled Unclean Uncleannesses Water WaysEzekiel 36 1. The land of Israel is comforted, by destruction of the heathen, who spitefully used it8. and by the blessings of God promised unto it 16. Israel was rejected for their sin 21. and shall be restored without their desert 25. The blessings of Christ's kingdom I will also sprinkle clean water on you, God promises to remove the defilement that had marked Israel through idolatry, rebellion, and covenant unfaithfulness. The imagery recalls the purification rites required under the Law, where water was used to restore those made ceremonially unclean. God Himself will provide the cleansing His people cannot accomplish. Num 19:17-19 For the purification of the unclean person,… and you will be clean. The restoration will be real and complete, not merely outward or national. Israel’s return from exile will include renewed standing before the Lord, with the deeper spiritual renewal described in the promises that follow. Psa 51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean;… I will cleanse you from all your impurities Their uncleanness included every sin that had separated them from God and brought His judgment upon the land. No defilement will remain beyond His power to forgive and remove. Jer 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity… and all your idols. Israel’s repeated worship of false gods had violated the covenant and provoked exile. God will purge the idols and restore His people to exclusive worship of Him, ending the corrupt practices that had drawn them away. Zec 13:2 And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts… Persons / Places / Events 1. EzekielA prophet during the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel conveyed God's messages of judgment and restoration to the Israelites. 2. Israelites The primary audience of Ezekiel's prophecy, they were in exile due to their disobedience and idolatry. 3. Babylonian Exile The period when the Israelites were taken captive by Babylon, serving as a backdrop for Ezekiel's prophecies. 4. God The speaker in this verse, promising purification and restoration to His people. 5. Idols Representing the false gods and practices that led the Israelites away from their covenant with God. Teaching Points Spiritual CleansingGod promises to cleanse us from impurities, symbolizing a spiritual renewal that is necessary for a right relationship with Him. Repentance and Restoration Just as the Israelites needed to turn from their idols, we must identify and forsake anything that takes precedence over God in our lives. God's Initiative The cleansing is initiated by God, highlighting His grace and mercy. Our role is to respond in faith and obedience. Symbolism of Water Water is a powerful symbol of purification and new life, reminding us of baptism and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Holiness and Idolatry The call to be cleansed from idols challenges us to examine modern-day idols that may hinder our walk with God. Bible Study Questions and Answers 1. What is the meaning of Ezekiel 36:25?2. How does Ezekiel 36:25 illustrate God's promise of spiritual cleansing for believers? 3. What does "clean water" symbolize in the context of Ezekiel 36:25? 4. How can we apply the cleansing promise of Ezekiel 36:25 in daily life? 5. Which New Testament passages connect with the cleansing theme in Ezekiel 36:25? 6. How does Ezekiel 36:25 encourage repentance and renewal in your spiritual journey? 7. How does Ezekiel 36:25 relate to the concept of spiritual cleansing in Christianity? 8. What historical context surrounds the promise in Ezekiel 36:25? 9. How is the symbolism of "clean water" in Ezekiel 36:25 interpreted theologically? 10. What are the top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 36? (25) Sprinkle clean water.--Comp. Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 10:22. Ezekiel, the priest, here refers to those manifold purifications of the Law (e.g., Numbers 8:7; Numbers 19:9; Numbers 19:17; Leviticus 14:5-7; Leviticus 14:9, &c.) which were performed by means of water; yet he refers to these as a whole, in their symbolical signification, rather than to any one of them in particular. He speaks primarily of the cleansing from idolatry and such gross outward sins, and he treats of the people collectively; yet this purification, as the following verses show, must necessarily extend much farther, and be applied to them individually. It was the same symbolism which led in later ages to the use of baptism in the admission of proselytes to the Jewish Church, a practice adopted by the forerunner of our Lord in the preparation of the people for His coming. Baptism is also alluded to by our Lord Himself in His conversation with Nicodemus (John 3:5.) and afterwards established by Him as the initiatory sacrament of the Christian Church. (Comp. Ephesians 5:26; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 10:22.) . . . Verse 25. - Then (literally, and) I will sprinkle clean water upon you. The second step in the sanctification of Jehovah's Name, and one absolutely necessary to render the preceding either permanent or valuable, was the moral renovation of the people; and in this the first stage was the forgiveness of the people's sins. The image under which this is set forth, "sprinkling with clean water," would naturally present itself to a priest-prophet such as Ezekiel. Jarchi, Rosenmüller, Hengstenberg, and others suppose the allusion to be to the water of purification prepared by mixing running water with the ashes of a red heifer (Numbers 19:17-19), and in the account given of this rite the verb for "sprinkle" is that used by Ezekiel, viz. זָרַק. Havernick prefers the rite performed in the consecration of the Levites (Numbers 8:7, 21). Smend, who holds the priest-code had no existence in Ezekiel's day, traces the image to Zechariah 13:1 or Psalm 51:2, though he also cites Numbers 8:19. Hitzig, Kliefoth, and Currey think of the lustrations of the Law in general; and perhaps this best explains the prophet's language, since the element sprinkled is not "blood" or "water mixed with ashes," but "clean water," "the best known means of purification" (Schroder). As to whether legal or moral cleansing were intended by the prophet, possibly Ezekiel drew no sharp distinction between the two, such as the New Testament draws between justification and sanctification; if he did, then the figure in the text must be taken as alluding rather to the former than to the latter - rather to the forgiveness of Israel's sin than to the regeneration of Israel's heart, which is next referred to. Ezekiel 36:25 is a divine pledge of total renewal. God acts: He sprinkles clean water, assures cleansing, and removes every impurity and idol. The verse anticipates the New Covenant reality fulfilled in Christ, applied by the Holy Spirit, and offered to all who trust Him. The promise is comprehensive, certain, and entirely God-driven—leaving us clean, free, and ready to walk in faithful obedience. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew I will also sprinkleוְזָרַקְתִּ֧י (wə·zā·raq·tî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular Strong's 2236: Be here and there, scatter, sprinkle, strew clean טְהוֹרִ֖ים (ṭə·hō·w·rîm) Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2889: Clean, pure water מַ֥יִם (ma·yim) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen on you, עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם (‘ă·lê·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against and you will be clean. וּטְהַרְתֶּ֑ם (ū·ṭə·har·tem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure I will cleanse אֲטַהֵ֥ר (’ă·ṭa·hêr) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 2891: To be clean or pure you אֶתְכֶֽם׃ (’eṯ·ḵem) Direct object marker | second person masculine plural Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case from all מִכֹּ֧ל (mik·kōl) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your impurities טֻמְאוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם (ṭum·’ō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2932: Religious impurity and all וּמִכָּל־ (ū·mik·kāl-) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every your idols. גִּלּ֥וּלֵיכֶ֖ם (gil·lū·lê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 1544: A log, an idol Additonal Resources Ezekiel 36:25 Blue Letter BibleEzekiel 36:25 Bible Gateway Ezekiel 36:25 Bible.com Ezekiel 36:25 NIV |
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