Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) with vowels: Ezekiel: yechez 20

This is a transliteration into Latin characters of Biblical Hebrew — specifically Ezekiel chapter 20 — placing it within the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible. The passage records a speech delivered by the prophet Ezekiel to Israel's elders, framed as a direct oracle from God reviewing Israel's history of rebellion. God recounts three cycles of disobedience — in Egypt, in the wilderness by the first generation, and again by their children — each time noting that he withheld full punishment specifically to protect his own reputation ("for my name's sake") before the surrounding nations. A theologically distinctive claim runs throughout: God twice gave Israel laws "that were not good" and ordinances "by which they could not live" as a form of judicial hardening, a harsh passage (verses 25–26) that has generated substantial interpretive debate across Jewish and Christian traditions. The oracle then shifts to future threat and promise: God declares he will not be consulted by the current generation, will scatter them further, but will ultimately gather a purified remnant, judge them in a "wilderness of the peoples," and restore them to worship on his holy mountain. The text is of interest to anyone studying biblical prophecy, covenant theology, divine retributive justice, or the distinctively bleak historical retrospective genre found in the later prophets.

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) with vowels: Ezekiel: yechez 20

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