Yehezkiel 20:31
Konteks20:31 When you present your sacrifices 1 – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, 2 O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! 3
Yehezkiel 33:11
Konteks33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior 4 and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! 5 Why should you die, O house of Israel?’
Yehezkiel 37:23
Konteks37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness 6 by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.
[20:31] 2 tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”
[20:31] 3 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
[33:11] 4 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
[33:11] 5 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
[37:23] 6 tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.