Ezekiel 20:17
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Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.

mine

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Ezekiel 9:10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.

1 Samuel 24:10 Behold this day thy eyes have seen, that the Lord hath delivered thee into my hand, in the cave, and I had a thought to kill thee, but my eye hath spared thee. For I said: I will not put out my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed.

Nehemiah 9:19 Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.

Psalm 78:37,38 But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. . . .

neither

Ezekiel 7:2 And thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is come, the end is come upon the four quarters of the land.

Ezekiel 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

Jeremiah 4:27 For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Jeremiah 5:18 Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

Nahum 1:8,9 But with a flood that passeth by, he will make an utter end of the place thereof: and darkness shall pursue his enemies. . . .

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
16Because they cast off my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, and violated my sabbaths: for their heart went after idols. 17Yet my eye spared them, so that I destroyed them not: neither did I consume them in the desert.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:27
For thus saith the Lord: All the land shall be desolate, but yet I will not utterly destroy.

Jeremiah 5:18
Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not bring you to utter destruction.

Ezekiel 11:13
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias died: and I fell down upon my face, and I cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an end of all the remnant of Israel?

Ezekiel 20:22
But I turned away my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it might not be violated before the nations, out of which I brought them forth in their sight.

Lexicon
Yet I looked on them with pity
וַתָּ֧חָס (wat·tā·ḥās)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2347: To pity, look upon with compassion

and did not destroy them
מִֽשַּׁחֲתָ֑ם (miš·ša·ḥă·ṯām)
Preposition-m | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin

or
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

bring
עָשִׂ֧יתִי (‘ā·śî·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: To do, make

them
אוֹתָ֛ם (’ō·w·ṯām)
Direct object marker | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

to an end
כָּלָ֖ה (kā·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3617: Completion, complete destruction, consumption, annihilation

in the wilderness.
בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃ (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech


Additional Translations
Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or bring them to an end in the wilderness.Nevertheless my 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.

Yet mine eyes spared them, so as not to destroy them utterly, and I did not make an end of them in the wilderness.

But mine eye spared them so as not to destroy them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an 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.

And Mine eye hath pity on them -- against destroying them, And I have not made of them an end in the wilderness.
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