Yehezkiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Yehezkiel 6:3

6:3 Say, ‘Mountains of Israel, ³  Hear the word of the sovereign Lord! ⁴  This is what the sovereign Lord says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am bringing ⁵  a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 6:12

6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these ⁷  will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.

Yehezkiel 11:15-16

11:15 “Son of man, your brothers, ⁸  your relatives, ⁹  and the whole house of Israel, all of them are those to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem ¹⁰  have said, ‘They have gone ¹¹  far away from the Lord; to us this land has been given as a possession.’

11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little ¹²  sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

Yehezkiel 13:13

13:13 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

Yehezkiel 13:19

13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people ¹³  who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

Yehezkiel 14:4

14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. ¹⁴ 

Yehezkiel 14:6

14:6 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

Yehezkiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ¹⁵  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ¹⁶  and your survivors will die ¹⁷  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Yehezkiel 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ¹⁸  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 25:9

25:9 So look, I am about to open up Moab’s flank, ¹⁹  eliminating the cities, ²⁰  including its frontier cities, ²¹  the beauty of the land – Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim.

Yehezkiel 25:13-14

25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, ²²  and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die ²³  by the sword. 25:14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience ²⁴  my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 26:16

26:16 All the princes of the sea will vacate ²⁵  their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you. ²⁶ 

Yehezkiel 28:18

28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade,

you desecrated your sanctuaries.

So I drew fire out from within you;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

before the eyes of all who saw you.

Yehezkiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ²⁷  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ²⁸  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Yehezkiel 31:16

31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. ²⁹  Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Yehezkiel 32:10

32:10 I will shock many peoples with you,

and their kings will shiver with horror because of you.

When I brandish my sword before them,

every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.

Yehezkiel 32:29

32:29 “Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 36:23

36:23 I will magnify ³⁰  my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

Yehezkiel 38:16

38:16 You will advance ³¹  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ³²  through you, O Gog.

Yehezkiel 39:15

39:15 When the scouts survey ³³  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ³⁴  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

Yehezkiel 43:8

43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

Yehezkiel 45:19

45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

Yehezkiel 47:22

47:22 You must allot it as an inheritance among yourselves and for the foreigners who reside among you, who have fathered sons among you. You must treat them as native-born among the people of Israel; they will be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. ³⁵ 

[4:3]  ¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[6:3]  ³ tn The phrase “mountains of Israel” occurs only in the book of Ezekiel (6:2, 3; 19:9; 33:28; 34:13, 14; 35:12; 36:1, 4, 8; 37:22; 38:8; 39:2, 4, 17). The expression refers to the whole land of Israel.

[6:3]  sn The mountainous terrain of Israel would contrast with the exiles’ habitat in the river valley of Babylonia.

[6:3]  ⁴ tn The introductory formula “Hear the word of the sovereign Lord” parallels a pronouncement delivered by the herald of a king (2 Kgs 18:28).

[6:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “Look I, I am bringing.” The repetition of the pronoun draws attention to the speaker. The construction also indicates that the action is soon to come; the Lord is “about to bring a sword against” them.

[6:3]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term refers to elevated platforms where pagan sacrifices were performed.

[6:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”

[11:15]  ⁸ tc The MT reads “your brothers, your brothers” either for empahsis (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:341, n. 1; 346) or as a result of dittography.

[11:15]  ⁹ tc The MT reads גְאֻלָּתֶךָ (gÿ’ullatekha, “your redemption-men”), referring to the relatives responsible for deliverance in times of hardship (see Lev 25:25-55). The LXX and Syriac read “your fellow exiles,” assuming an underlying Hebrew text of גָלוּתֶךָ (galutekha) or having read the א (aleph) as an internal mater lectionis for holem.

[11:15]  ¹⁰ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[11:15]  ¹¹ tc The MT has an imperative form (“go far!”), but it may be read with different vowels as a perfect verb (“they have gone far”).

[11:16]  ¹² tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).

[13:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

[14:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”

[23:25]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  sn This method of punishment is attested among ancient Egyptian and Hittite civilizations. See W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:489.

[23:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[24:27]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

[25:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “shoulder.”

[25:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “from the cities.” The verb “eliminating” has been added in the translation to reflect the privative use of the preposition (see BDB 583 s.v. מִן 7.b).

[25:9]  ²¹ tn Heb “from its cities, from its end.”

[25:13]  ²² tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”

[25:13]  ²³ tn Heb “fall.”

[25:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “know.”

[26:16]  ²⁵ tn Heb “descend from.”

[26:16]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and they will be astonished over you.”

[29:18]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ²⁸ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[29:18]  map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[31:16]  ²⁹ sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.

[36:23]  ³⁰ tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”

[38:16]  ³¹ tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ³² tn Or “reveal my holiness.”

[39:15]  ³³ tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”

[39:15]  ³⁴ tn That is, the aforementioned bone.

[47:22]  ³⁵ sn A similar attitude toward non-Israelites is found in Isa 56:3-8.