Yehezkiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare ¹  you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, ²  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. ³ 

Yehezkiel 7:27

7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice ⁴  I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 20:26

20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices ⁵  – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire ⁶  – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 28:24

28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers ⁸  or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. ⁹  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

[7:9]  ¹ 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.

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

[7:9]  ³ tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

[7:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “and by their judgments.”

[20:26]  ⁵ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:26]  ⁶ sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).

[20:26]  ⁷ sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.

[28:24]  ⁸ sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.

[28:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”