Catholic Public Domain Version
"Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert. "
— Ezekiel 20:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.”
“Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness. ”
“Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I didn't destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.”
“Yet I had pity on them and did not destroy them, so I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.”
“Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.”
“But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.”
“Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.”
But I acted for the sake of my name, lest it be violated before the Gentiles, from whom I cast them out, in their sight.
And so I lifted up my hand over them in the desert, so as not to lead them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey, the foremost of all lands.
For they cast aside my judgments, and they did not walk in my precepts, and they violated my Sabbaths. For their heart went after idols.
Yet my eye was lenient concerning them, so that I did not utterly destroy them, nor did I consume them in the desert.
Then I said to their sons in the wilderness: ‘Do not choose to advance by the precepts of your fathers, nor should you observe their judgments. And do not be defiled by their idols.
I am the Lord your God. Walk in my precepts, and observe my judgments, and accomplish them.
And sanctify my Sabbaths, so that these may be a sign between me and you, and so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’