Ezekiel 36:32 (YLT)

Passage

Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

Nearby Context

Ezekiel 36:30 And I have multiplied the fruit of the tree, And the increase of the field, So that ye receive not any more a reproach of famine among nations.

Ezekiel 36:31 And ye have remembered your ways that <FI>are<Fi> evil, And your doings that <FI>are<Fi> not good, And have been loathsome in your own faces, For your iniquities, and for your abominations.

Ezekiel 36:32 Not for your sake am I working, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Be it known to you, Be ashamed and confounded, because of your ways, O house of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:33 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of My cleansing you from all your iniquities, I have caused the cities to be inhabited, And the wastes have been built,

Ezekiel 36:34 And the desolate land is tilled, Instead of which it was a desolation before the eyes of every passer by,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sake", "working", "affirmation", "lord", "jehovah", "known", "ashamed", and "confounded". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sake" and "working", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 31's "And ye have remembered your ways that..." into verse 33's "Thus said the Lord Jehovah In the...", so "sake" and "working" belong inside that flow. In Ezekiel context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sake" and "working" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.