Ezekiel 20:35
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
American Standard Version (ASV)
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.
Webster's Revision
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.
World English Bible
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.
English Revised Version (ERV)
and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I plead with you face to face.
Clarke's Ezekiel 20:35 Bible Commentary
I will bring you into the wilderness of the people - I will bring you out of your captivity, and bring you into your own land which you will find to be a wilderness, the consequence of your crimes.
There will I plead with you - There I will be your king, and rule you with a sovereign rule; and the dispensations of my justice and mercy shall either end you or mend you.
Barnes's Ezekiel 20:35 Bible Commentary
The wilderness of the people - A time of probation will follow, as before in the wilderness of Sin, so in the "wilderness of the nations" among whom they will sojourn (not the Babylonians) "after" that captivity. This period of their probation is not over. The dispersion of the Jews did not cease with the return under Zerubbabel; but in our Saviour's time they were living as a distinct people in all the principal places in the civilized world; and so they live now. God is yet pleading with them "face to face," calling them personally to embrace those offers which as a nation they disregarded.
Wesley's Ezekiel 20:35 Bible Commentary
20:35 Bring you - Drive you. The wilderness - Into the most horrid parts of the world; into the mountainous parts of Media, Hyrcania, Iberia, Caspia, Albania, and Scythia.Plead with you - Pass sentence, and execute it on you.