Yehezkiel 1:2

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

Yehezkiel 3:13

3:13 and the sound of the living beings’ wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.

Yehezkiel 4:10

4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces ¹  a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed ²  times.

Yehezkiel 7:5

7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster ³  – a one-of-a-kind ⁴  disaster – is coming!

Yehezkiel 10:12

10:12 along with their entire bodies, ⁵  their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

Yehezkiel 10:22

10:22 As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

Yehezkiel 12:9

12:9 “Son of man, has not the house of Israel, that rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

Yehezkiel 12:22

12:22 “Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, ‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?

Yehezkiel 15:2

15:2 “Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine? ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 16:14

16:14 Your fame ⁷  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 16:26

16:26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, ⁹  multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

Yehezkiel 16:29

16:29 Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, ¹⁰  but you were not satisfied there either.

Yehezkiel 18:15

18:15 He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

Yehezkiel 21:5

21:5 Then everyone will know that I am the Lord, who drew my sword from its sheath – it will not be sheathed again!’

Yehezkiel 21:10

21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,

it is polished to flash like lightning!

“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! ¹¹ 

Yehezkiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ¹² 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Yehezkiel 22:2

22:2 “As for you, son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment, ¹³  are you willing to pronounce judgment on the bloody city? ¹⁴  Then confront her with all her abominable deeds!

Yehezkiel 23:5-6

23:5 “Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was mine. ¹⁵  She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians ¹⁶  – warriors ¹⁷  23:6 clothed in blue, governors and officials, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Yehezkiel 23:33

23:33 You will be overcome by ¹⁸  drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

Yehezkiel 23:44

23:44 They had sex with her ¹⁹  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

Yehezkiel 27:32

27:32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:

“Who was like Tyre, like a tower ²⁰  in the midst of the sea?”

Yehezkiel 29:17

29:17 In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, ²¹  the word of the Lord came to me:

Yehezkiel 31:9

31:9 I made it beautiful with its many branches;

all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

Yehezkiel 34:31

34:31 And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, ²²  and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 35:5

35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ²³  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Yehezkiel 38:6

38:6 They are joined by ²⁴  Gomer with all its troops, and by Beth Togarmah from the remote parts of the north with all its troops – many peoples are with you. ²⁵ 

Yehezkiel 41:9

41:9 The width of the outer wall of the side chambers was 8¾ feet, ²⁶  and the open area between the side chambers of the temple

Yehezkiel 41:24

41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging ²⁷  leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other.

Yehezkiel 42:10

42:10 At the beginning ²⁸  of the wall of the court toward the south, ²⁹  facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

Yehezkiel 43:12

43:12 “This is the law of the temple: The entire area on top of the mountain all around will be most holy. Indeed, this is the law of the temple.

Yehezkiel 46:23

46:23 There was a row of masonry around each of the four courts, and places for boiling offerings were made under the rows all around.

Yehezkiel 47:15

47:15 “This will be the border of the land: ³⁰  On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Zedad;

[4:10]  ¹ sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “from time to time.”

[7:5]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tc So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[10:12]  ⁵ tc The phrase “along with their entire bodies” is absent from the LXX and may be a gloss explaining the following words.

[15:2]  ⁶ tn Most modern translations take the statement as a comparison (“how is vine wood better than any forest wood?”) based on the preposition מִן (min). But a comparison should have a word as an adjective or stative verb designating a quality, i.e., a word for “good/better” is lacking. The preposition is translated above in its partitive sense.

[15:2]  sn Comparing Israel to the wood of the vine may focus on Israel’s inferiority to the other nations. For the vine imagery in relation to Israel and the people of God, see Ps 80:8-13; John 15:1-7; Rom 11:17-22.

[16:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “name.”

[16:14]  ⁸ sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

[16:26]  ⁹ tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or, as the translation suggests, depicts them as sexually aroused.

[16:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Chaldea.” The name of the tribal group ruling Babylon (“Chaldeans”) and the territory from which they originated (“Chaldea”) is used as metonymy for the whole empire of Babylon.

[21:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “Or shall we rejoice, scepter of my son, it despises every tree.” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned just before this. Alternatively, the line may be understood as “let us not rejoice, O tribe of my son; it despises every tree.” The same word in Hebrew may be either “rod,” “scepter,” or “tribe.” The word sometimes translated as “or” or taken as an interrogative particle may be a negative particle. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:672, n. 79.

[21:10]  sn The people of Judah should not place false hope in their king, symbolized by his royal scepter, for God’s judgment (symbolized by fire and then a sword) would destroy every tree (see 20:47), symbolizing the righteous and wicked (see 21:3-4).

[21:25]  ¹² tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

[22:2]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn The phrase “bloody city” is used of Nineveh in Nah 3:1.

[23:5]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “while she was under me.” The expression indicates that Oholah is viewed as the Lord’s wife. See Num 5:19-20, 29.

[23:5]  sn Played the harlot refers to alliances with pagan nations in this context. In Ezek 16 harlotry described the sin of idolatry.

[23:5]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Assyria.”

[23:5]  ¹⁷ tn The term apparently refers to Assyrian military officers; it is better construed with the description that follows. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:738.

[23:33]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “filled with.”

[23:44]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they came to her.”

[27:32]  ²⁰ tn As it stands, the meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear. The translation follows the suggestion of M. Dahood, “Accadian-Ugaritic dmt in Ezekiel 27:32,” Bib 45 (1964): 83-84. Several other explanations and emendations have been offered. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:83, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:85-86, for a list of options.

[29:17]  ²¹ sn April 26, 571 b.c.

[34:31]  ²² tn Heb, “the sheep of my pasture, you are human.” See 36:37-38 for a similar expression. The possessive pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation to balance “I am your God” in the next clause.

[35:5]  ²³ tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.

[38:6]  ²⁴ tn The words “they are joined by” are added in the translation for purposes of English style.

[38:6]  ²⁵ sn The seven-nation coalition represents the north (Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, Beth-Togarmah), the south/west (Ethiopia, Put) and the east (Persia). The use of the sevenfold list suggests completeness. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:441.

[41:9]  ²⁶ tn Heb “five cubits” (i.e., 2.625 meters).

[41:24]  ²⁷ tn Heb “turning” leaves.

[42:10]  ²⁸ tc The reading is supported by the LXX.

[42:10]  ²⁹ tc This reading is supported by the LXX; the MT reads “east.”

[47:15]  ³⁰ sn The measurements resemble those in Num 34:1-2.