Yehezkiel 15:5

15:5 Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

Yehezkiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ¹  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ² 

Yehezkiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ³  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ⁴  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ⁵  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 36:17

36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior ⁷  and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

[16:4]  ¹ tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

[16:4]  ² sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

[33:22]  ³ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ⁶ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[36:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “way.”