Yehezkiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ¹  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ²  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ³  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 36:37

36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: ⁵  I will multiply their people like sheep. ⁶ 

[33:22]  ¹ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ³ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ⁴ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[36:37]  ⁵ tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”

[36:37]  ⁶ sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”