Yehezkiel 5:16

5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹  destructive ²  arrows of famine, ³  which I will shoot to destroy you. ⁴  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 6:4

6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 9:5

9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, ⁷  “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare ⁸  anyone!

Yehezkiel 14:17

14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

Yehezkiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ⁹  you were thrown out into the open field ¹⁰  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Yehezkiel 17:10

17:10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?

Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?

Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

Yehezkiel 21:14-15

21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,

and clap your hands together.

Let the sword strike twice, even three times!

It is a sword for slaughter,

a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Yehezkiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ¹¹  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ¹²  they commit obscene acts among you. ¹³ 

Yehezkiel 24:16

24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, ¹⁴  but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

Yehezkiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ¹⁵  all the birds of the sky to settle ¹⁶  on you,

and I will permit ¹⁷  all the wild animals ¹⁸  to gorge themselves on you.

Yehezkiel 34:29

34:29 I will prepare for them a healthy ¹⁹  planting. They will no longer be victims ²⁰  of famine in the land and will no longer bear the insults of the nations.

Yehezkiel 36:12

36:12 I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.

Yehezkiel 37:1

The Valley of Dry Bones

37:1 The hand ²¹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed ²²  me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

Yehezkiel 41:17

41:17 to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement. ²³ 

[5:16]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

[5:16]  ² tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

[5:16]  ³ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

[5:16]  ⁴ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

[5:16]  ⁵ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

[6:4]  ⁶ tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

[6:4]  sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.

[9:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”

[9:5]  ⁸ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

[16:5]  ⁹ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

[16:5]  ¹⁰ sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

[22:9]  ¹¹ tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:9]  ¹² tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

[22:9]  ¹³ sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

[24:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “a strike.”

[32:4]  ¹⁵ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “live.”

[32:4]  ¹⁷ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

[34:29]  ¹⁹ tc The MT reads לְשֵׁם (lÿshem, “for a name”), meaning perhaps a renowned planting (place). The translation takes this to be a metathesis of שָׁלֹם (shalom) as was read by the LXX.

[34:29]  ²⁰ tn Heb “those gathered” for famine.

[37:1]  ²¹ tn Or “power.”

[37:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[37:1]  ²² tn Heb “caused me to rest.”

[41:17]  ²³ tc The LXX does not have the word “by measurements.” The word may be a technical term referring to carpentry technique, the exact meaning of which is unclear.