Yehezkiel 4:6

4:6 “When you have completed these days, then lie down a second time, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah 40 days ¹  – I have assigned one day for each year.

Yehezkiel 7:16

7:16 Their survivors will escape to the mountains and become like doves of the valleys; all of them will moan – each one for his iniquity.

Yehezkiel 14:18

14:18 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters – they would save only their own lives.

Yehezkiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ²  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ³ 

Yehezkiel 18:13

18:13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. ⁴  He will bear the responsibility for his own death. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ⁶  some of the elders ⁷  of Israel came to seek ⁸  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Yehezkiel 22:19

22:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you ⁹  have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 28:24

28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers ¹¹  or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. ¹²  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 37:11

37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Yehezkiel 38:15

38:15 and come from your place, from the remote parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a vast army.

Yehezkiel 39:2

39:2 I will turn you around and drag you along; ¹³  I will lead you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

Yehezkiel 47:4

47:4 Again he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was now knee deep. Once more he measured 1,750 feet and led me through the water, which was waist deep.

Yehezkiel 47:19

47:19 On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, the river, ¹⁴  to the Great Sea. This is the south side.

[4:6]  ¹ sn The number 40 may refer in general to the period of Judah’s exile using the number of years Israel was punished in the wilderness. In this case, however, one would need to translate, “you will bear the punishment of the house of Judah.”

[16:4]  ² tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

[16:4]  ³ sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

[18:13]  ⁴ tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.

[18:13]  ⁵ tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”

[20:1]  ⁶ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ⁸ tn See the note at 14:3.

[22:19]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew second person pronoun is masculine plural here and in vv. 19b-21, indicating that the people are being addressed.

[22:19]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[28:24]  ¹¹ sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.

[28:24]  ¹² tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”

[39:2]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT. An apparent cognate in the Ethiopic language means “walk along.” For a discussion of the research on this verb, see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:460.

[47:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “valley.” The syntax is difficult. Some translate “to the river,” others “from the river”; in either case the preposition is supplied for the sake of English.