Yehezkiel 1:22

1:22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, ¹  glittering awesomely like ice, ²  stretched out over their heads.

Yehezkiel 2:4

2:4 The people ³  to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, ⁴  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 3:6

3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand ⁶  – surely if ⁷  I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

Yehezkiel 7:11

7:11 Violence ⁸  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ⁹  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 12:22

12:22 “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, ‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?

Yehezkiel 13:17

13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward ¹¹  the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. ¹²  Prophesy against them

Yehezkiel 15:4

15:4 No! ¹³  It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Yehezkiel 16:24

16:24 you built yourself a chamber ¹⁴  and put up a pavilion ¹⁵  in every public square.

Yehezkiel 18:27

18:27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Yehezkiel 20:49

20:49 Then I said, “O sovereign Lord! They are saying of me, ‘Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”

Yehezkiel 21:30

21:30 Return it to its sheath! ¹⁶ 

In the place where you were created, ¹⁷ 

in your native land, I will judge you.

Yehezkiel 22:7

22:7 They have treated father and mother with contempt ¹⁸  within you; they have oppressed the foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow ¹⁹  within you.

Yehezkiel 23:19

23:19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

Yehezkiel 23:44

23:44 They had sex with her ²⁰  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

Yehezkiel 25:10

25:10 I will hand it over, ²¹  along with the Ammonites, ²²  to the tribes ²³  of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

Yehezkiel 35:4

35:4 I will lay waste your cities;

and you will become desolate.

Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Yehezkiel 39:3

39:3 I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.

Yehezkiel 42:9

42:9 Below these chambers was a passage on the east side as one enters from the outer court.

Yehezkiel 44:6

44:6 Say to the rebellious, ²⁴  to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!

[1:22]  ¹ tn Or “like a dome” (NCV, NRSV, TEV).

[1:22]  ² tn Or “like crystal” (NRSV, NLT).

[2:4]  ³ tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.

[2:4]  ⁴ tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.

[2:4]  ⁵ tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).

[3:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “hear.”

[3:6]  ⁷ tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.

[7:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “the violence.”

[7:11]  ⁹ tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”

[7:11]  tn The verb has been supplied for the Hebrew text to clarify the sense.

[7:11]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[13:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “set your face against.”

[13:17]  ¹² tn Heb “from their heart.”

[15:4]  ¹³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws one’s attention to something. Sometimes it may be translated as a verb of perception; here it is treated as a particle that fits the context (so also in v. 5, but with a different English word).

[16:24]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.

[16:24]  ¹⁵ tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.

[21:30]  ¹⁶ sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.

[21:30]  ¹⁷ tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.

[22:7]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “treated lightly, cursed.”

[22:7]  ¹⁹ tn Widows and orphans are often coupled together in the OT (Deut 14:29; 16:11, 14; 24:19-21; 26:12-13; Jer 7:6; 22:3). They represented all who were poor and vulnerable to economic exploitation.

[23:44]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and they came to her.”

[25:10]  ²¹ tn Heb “I will give it for a possession.”

[25:10]  ²² tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).

[25:10]  ²³ tn Heb “the sons.”

[44:6]  ²⁴ tc The LXX reads “house of rebellion.”