Yehezkiel 16:25

16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ¹  your beauty when you spread ²  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Yehezkiel 17:5

17:5 He took one of the seedlings ³  of the land,

placed it in a cultivated plot; ⁴ 

a shoot by abundant water,

like a willow he planted it.

[16:25]  ¹ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

[16:25]  ² tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

[17:5]  ³ tn Heb “took of the seed of the land.” For the vine imagery, “seedling” is a better translation, though in its subsequent interpretation the “seed” refers to Zedekiah through its common application to offspring.

[17:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “a field for seed.”