Yehezkiel 2:1

Ezekiel’s Commission

2:1 He said to me, “Son of man, ¹  stand on your feet and I will speak with you.”

Yehezkiel 16:32

16:32 “‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

Yehezkiel 17:4

17:4 He plucked off its topmost shoot;

he brought it to a land of merchants

and planted it in a city of traders.

Yehezkiel 20:48

20:48 And everyone ²  will see that I, the Lord, have burned it; it will not be extinguished.’”

Yehezkiel 24:12

24:12 It has tried my patience; ³ 

yet its thick rot is not removed ⁴  from it.

Subject its rot to the fire! ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 39:8

39:8 Realize that it is coming and it will be done, declares the sovereign Lord. It is the day I have spoken about.

Yehezkiel 46:10

46:10 When they come in, the prince will come in with them, and when they go out, he will go out.

Yehezkiel 48:19

48:19 The workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.

[2:1]  ¹ sn The phrase son of man occurs ninety-three times in the book of Ezekiel. It simply means “human one,” and distinguishes the prophet from the nonhuman beings that are present in the world of his vision.

[20:48]  ² tn Heb “all flesh.”

[24:12]  ³ tn Heb “(with) toil she has wearied.” The meaning of the statement is unclear in the Hebrew text; some follow the LXX and delete it. The first word in the statement (rendered “toil” in the literal translation above) occurs only here in the OT, and the verb “she has wearied” lacks a stated object. Elsewhere the Hiphil of the verb refers to wearying someone or trying someone’s patience. The feminine subject is apparently the symbolic pot.

[24:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “does not go out.”

[24:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “in fire its rust.” The meaning of the expression is unclear. The translation understands the statement as a command to burn the rust away. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:768.