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 7:3

7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge ⁶  you according to your behavior, ⁷  I will hold you accountable for ⁸  all your abominable practices.

Yehezkiel 7:8

7:8 Soon now I will pour out my rage ⁹  on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

Yehezkiel 9:5

9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, ¹⁰  “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare ¹¹  anyone!

Yehezkiel 12:6

12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. ¹²  You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground ¹³  because I have made you an object lesson ¹⁴  to the house of Israel.”

Yehezkiel 13:2

13:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination: ¹⁵  ‘Hear the word of the Lord!

Yehezkiel 16:3

16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Yehezkiel 16:20

16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them ¹⁶  as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,

Yehezkiel 17:20

17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.

Yehezkiel 18:26

18:26 When a righteous person turns back from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing, he will die for it; ¹⁷  because of the wrongdoing he has done, he will die.

Yehezkiel 20:46

20:46 “Son of man, turn toward ¹⁸  the south, ¹⁹  and speak out against the south. ²⁰  Prophesy against the open scrub ²¹  land of the Negev,

Yehezkiel 21:4

21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ²²  from the south ²³  to the north.

Yehezkiel 21:27

21:27 A total ruin I will make it! ²⁴ 

It will come to an end

when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’ ²⁵ 

Yehezkiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ²⁶  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ²⁷  declares the sovereign Lord. ²⁸ 

Yehezkiel 22:19

22:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because all of you ²⁹  have become slag, look out! – I am about to gather you in the middle of Jerusalem. ³⁰ 

Yehezkiel 26:5

26:5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,

Yehezkiel 26:15

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Yehezkiel 28:9

28:9 Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you –

though you are a man and not a god –

when you are in the power of those who wound you?

Yehezkiel 28:17

28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;

you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.

I threw you down to the ground;

I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

Yehezkiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ³¹ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Yehezkiel 33:14

33:14 Suppose I say to the wicked, ‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.

Yehezkiel 34:26

34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. ³² 

Yehezkiel 35:6

35:6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Yehezkiel 35:12

35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

Yehezkiel 39:21

39:21 “I will display my majesty ³³  among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited ³⁴  among them.

Yehezkiel 42:1

Chambers for the Temple

42:1 Then he led me out to the outer court, toward the north, and brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and opposite the building on the north.

Yehezkiel 44:22

44:22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel ³⁵  or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

Yehezkiel 46:6

46:6 On the day of the new moon he will offer ³⁶  an unblemished young bull, and six lambs and a ram, all without blemish.

Yehezkiel 46:13

46:13 “‘You ³⁷  will provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering daily to the Lord; morning by morning he will provide it.

[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.

[7:3]  ⁶ tn Or “punish” (cf. BDB 1047 s.v. שָׁפַט 3.c).

[7:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “ways.”

[7:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “I will place on you.”

[7:8]  ⁹ tn The expression “to pour out rage” also occurs in Ezek 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:31; 30:15; 36:18.

[9:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”

[9:5]  ¹¹ 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.

[12:6]  ¹² tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.

[12:6]  ¹³ tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[12:6]  ¹⁴ sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.

[13:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “from their mind.”

[13:2]  sn Who prophesy from their imagination. Note the testimony of Moses in Num 16:28, which contains a similar expression.

[16:20]  ¹⁶ sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.

[18:26]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “for them” or “because of them.”

[20:46]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “set your face toward.” This expression occurs as well in Ezek 6:2; 13:17.

[20:46]  ¹⁹ tn Or “the way toward the south,” or “the way toward Teman.” Teman is in the south and may be a location or the direction.

[20:46]  ²⁰ tn Or “toward Darom.” Darom may mean the south or a region just north of southern city of Beer Sheba. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:417-18.

[20:46]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew term can also mean “forest,” but a meaning of uncultivated wasteland fits the Negev region far better. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:418.

[21:4]  ²² tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

[21:4]  ²³ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

[21:27]  ²⁴ tn Heb “A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it.” The threefold repetition of the noun “ruin” is for emphasis and draws attention to the degree of ruin that would take place. See IBHS 233 §12.5a and GKC 431-32 §133.k. The pronominal suffix (translated “it”) on the verb “make” is feminine in Hebrew. The probable antecedent is the “turban/crown” (both nouns are feminine in form) mentioned in verse 26. The point is that the king’s royal splendor would be completely devastated as judgment overtook his realm and brought his reign to a violent end.

[21:27]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Also this, he was not, until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it.” The Hebrew text, as it stands, is grammatically difficult. The pronoun “this” is feminine, while the following negated verb (“was not”) is masculine. Some emend the verb to a feminine form (see BHS). In this case the statement refers to the destiny of the king’s turban/crown (symbolizing his reign). See the previous note. The preposition translated “when” normally means “until,” but here it seems to refer to the period during which the preceding situation is realized, rather than its termination point. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:19, 21. The second part of the statement, though awkward, probably refers to the arrival of the Babylonian king, to whom the Lord had assigned the task of judgment (see 23:24). Or the verse may read “A total ruin I will make, even this. It will not be until the one comes to whom is (the task of) judgment and I have assigned it.”

[22:12]  ²⁶ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

[22:12]  ²⁷ sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

[22:12]  ²⁸ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

[22:19]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew second person pronoun is masculine plural here and in vv. 19b-21, indicating that the people are being addressed.

[22:19]  ³⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[30:11]  ³¹ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

[34:26]  ³² tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).

[39:21]  ³³ tn Or “my glory.”

[39:21]  ³⁴ tn Heb “my hand which I have placed.”

[44:22]  ³⁵ tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”

[46:6]  ³⁶ tn The phrase “he will offer” is not in the Hebrew text but is warranted from the context.

[46:13]  ³⁷ tc A few Hebrew mss, the LXX, and the Vulgate read the verb as third person singular (referring to the prince), both here and later in the verse.