Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 1:21

1:21 When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. ¹  When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

Yehezkiel 3:12

Ezekiel Before the Exiles

3:12 Then a wind lifted me up ²  and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place, ³ 

Yehezkiel 7:5

7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster ⁴  – a one-of-a-kind ⁵  disaster – is coming!

Yehezkiel 7:21

7:21 I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

Yehezkiel 10:16

10:16 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the cherubim spread ⁶  their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not move from their side.

Yehezkiel 11:2

11:2 The Lord ⁷  said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

Yehezkiel 11:10

11:10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 16:40

16:40 They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

Yehezkiel 19:10

19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ⁸  planted by water.

It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

Yehezkiel 22:2

22:2 “As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, ⁹  are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? ¹⁰  Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

Yehezkiel 23:46

23:46 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army ¹¹  against them and subject them ¹²  to terror and plunder.

Yehezkiel 27:33

27:33 When your products went out from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

Yehezkiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ¹³  a cedar in Lebanon, ¹⁴ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Yehezkiel 34:9

34:9 Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

Yehezkiel 35:5

35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ¹⁵  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Yehezkiel 35:13

35:13 You exalted yourselves against me with your speech ¹⁶  and hurled many insults against me ¹⁷  – I have heard them all!

Yehezkiel 37:2

37:2 He made me walk all around among them. ¹⁸  I realized ¹⁹  there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

Yehezkiel 37:4

37:4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Yehezkiel 38:21

38:21 I will call for a sword to attack ²⁰  Gog ²¹  on all my mountains, declares the sovereign Lord; every man’s sword will be against his brother.

Yehezkiel 40:38

40:38 There was a chamber with its door by the porch of the gate; ²²  there they washed the burnt offering.

Yehezkiel 43:26

43:26 For seven days they will make atonement for the altar and cleanse it, so they will consecrate it. ²³ 

[1:21]  ¹ tc The LXX reads “when it went, they went; when it stood, they stood.”

[1:21]  tn Heb “when they went, they went; when they stood, they stood.”

[3:12]  ² sn See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[3:12]  ³ tc This translation accepts the emendation suggested in BHS of בְּרוּם (bÿrum) for בָּרוּךְ (barukh). The letters mem (מ) and kaph (כ) were easily confused in the old script while בָּרוּךְ (“blessed be”) both implies a quotation which is out of place here and also does not fit the later phrase, “from its place,” which requires a verb of motion.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term often refers to moral evil (see Ezek 6:10; 14:22), but in many contexts it refers to calamity or disaster, sometimes as punishment for evil behavior.

[7:5]  ⁵ tc So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[10:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “lifted.”

[11:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:10]  ⁸ tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.

[22:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “will you judge.” Here the imperfect form of the verb is probably used with a desiderative nuance. Addressed to the prophet, “judge” means to warn of or pronounce God’s impending judgment upon the city. See 20:4.

[22:2]  ¹⁰ tn The phrase “bloody city” is used of Nineveh in Nah 3:1.

[23:46]  ¹¹ tn Heb “assembly.”

[23:46]  ¹² tn Heb “give them to.”

[31:3]  ¹³ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

[31:3]  ¹⁴ sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

[35:5]  ¹⁵ tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.

[35:13]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your mouth.”

[35:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.

[37:2]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”

[37:2]  ¹⁹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.

[38:21]  ²⁰ tn Heb “against.”

[38:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gog, cf. v. 18) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[40:38]  ²² tc The MT reads “jambs of the gates” which does not make sense in a context discussing one chamber. The emendation to “porch” is similar to v. 14. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:530.

[43:26]  ²³ tn Heb “fill its hands.”