Yehezkiel 7:11

7:11 Violence ¹  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ²  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ³ 

Yehezkiel 16:14

16:14 Your fame ⁴  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 16:24

16:24 you built yourself a chamber ⁶  and put up a pavilion ⁷  in every public square.

Yehezkiel 27:25

27:25 The ships of Tarshish ⁸  were the transports for your merchandise.

“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

[7:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the violence.”

[7:11]  ² 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]  ³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[16:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “name.”

[16:14]  ⁵ sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

[16:24]  ⁶ 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]  ⁷ tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.

[27:25]  ⁸ tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.