Yehezkiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Yehezkiel 8:5

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ³  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

Yehezkiel 9:1

The Execution of Idolaters

9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, ⁴  you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Yehezkiel 9:5

9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, ⁵  “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare ⁶  anyone!

Yehezkiel 11:12

11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

Yehezkiel 11:21

11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, ⁷  says the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 14:15

14:15 “Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

Yehezkiel 14:23

14:23 They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 33:28

33:28 I will turn the land into a desolate ruin; her confident pride will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will be so desolate no one will pass through them.

Yehezkiel 36:34

36:34 The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Yehezkiel 44:16

44:16 They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

Yehezkiel 47:3

47:3 When the man went out toward the east with a measuring line in his hand, he measured 1,750 feet, ⁸  and then he led me through water, which was ankle deep.

[5:1]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[5:1]  ² tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

[8:5]  ³ tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”

[9:1]  ⁴ tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.

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

[9:5]  ⁶ 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.

[11:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”

[47:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “one thousand cubits” (i.e., 525 meters); this phrase occurs three times in the next two verses.