Ezekiel 20:19

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

Ezekiel 20:19 in Other Translations

19 I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,

19 ‘I am the LORD your God,’ I told them. ‘Follow my decrees, pay attention to my regulations,

19 I myself am God, your God: Keep my statutes and live by my laws.

19 I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

19 I am the LORD your God. Live by my laws. Obey my rules and follow them.

19 I am the Lord your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.

19 I am the LORD your God. So follow my rules. Be careful to obey my laws.

Ezekiel 20:19 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:19

I [am] the Lord your God
Not only that had made them and preserved them, but had chose them above all people to be his people; who had made a covenant with them, and had distinguished them by his favours from all others: walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
which he had given unto their fathers, and they had neglected and despised; those contained in the decalogue, and in the whole book of Deuteronomy, and elsewhere,

Ezekiel 20:19 In-Context

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

18 I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents 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.

20 Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”

21 “ ‘But the children rebelled against me: They did not follow my decrees, they were not careful to keep my laws, of which I said, “The person who obeys them will live by them,” and they desecrated my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 20:2
• 2. Deuteronomy 5:32-33; Deuteronomy 6:1-2; S Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 11:1; S Deuteronomy 12:1