Yehezkiel 3:5

3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech ¹  and difficult language, ²  but ³  to the house of Israel –

Yehezkiel 3:12

Ezekiel Before the Exiles

3:12 Then a wind lifted me up ⁴  and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place, ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 6:8

6:8 “‘But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 6:10

6:10 They will know that I am the Lord; my threats to bring this catastrophe on them were not empty.’ ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 7:5

7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster ⁸  – a one-of-a-kind ⁹  disaster – is coming!

Yehezkiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 7:21

7:21 I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

Yehezkiel 9:10

9:10 But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare ¹¹  them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.” ¹² 

Yehezkiel 10:1

God’s Glory Leaves the Temple

10:1 As I watched, I saw ¹³  on the platform ¹⁴  above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

Yehezkiel 16:38

16:38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. ¹⁵  I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. ¹⁶ 

Yehezkiel 17:13

17:13 He took one from the royal family, ¹⁷  made a treaty with him, and put him under oath. ¹⁸  He then took the leaders of the land

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 24:8

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Yehezkiel 24:10

24:10 Pile up the bones, kindle the fire;

cook the meat well, mix in the spices,

let the bones be charred.

Yehezkiel 24:26

24:26 On that day a fugitive will come to you to report the news. ¹⁹ 

Yehezkiel 25:6

25:6 For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn ²⁰  over the land of Israel,

Yehezkiel 25:12

A Prophecy Against Edom

25:12 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Edom ²¹  has taken vengeance against the house of Judah; they have made themselves fully culpable ²²  by taking vengeance ²³  on them. ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 27:13

27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your clients; they exchanged slaves and bronze items for your merchandise.

Yehezkiel 27:15

27:15 The Dedanites ²⁵  were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid ²⁶  you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Yehezkiel 27:17

27:17 Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith, ²⁷  millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.

Yehezkiel 27:22

27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

Yehezkiel 27:30

27:30 They will lament loudly ²⁸  over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; ²⁹ 

Yehezkiel 28:7

28:7 I am about to bring foreigners ³⁰  against you, the most terrifying of nations.

They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, ³¹ 

and they will defile your splendor.

Yehezkiel 30:15

30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ³² 

the stronghold of Egypt;

I will cut off ³³  the hordes of Thebes.

Yehezkiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ³⁴  a cedar in Lebanon, ³⁵ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Yehezkiel 35:7

35:7 I will turn Mount Seir into a desolate ruin; ³⁶  I will cut off ³⁷  from it the one who passes through or returns.

Yehezkiel 38:18

38:18 On that day, when Gog invades ³⁸  the land of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, my rage will mount up in my anger.

Yehezkiel 46:8

46:8 When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.

[3:5]  ¹ tn Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible).

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “heavy of tongue.” Similar language occurs in Exod 4:10; Isa 33:19.

[3:5]  ³ tn The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.

[3:12]  ⁴ sn See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[3:12]  ⁵ tc This translation accepts the emendation suggested in BHS of בְּרוּם (bÿrum) for בָּרוּךְ (barukh). The letters mem (מ) and kaph (כ) were easily confused in the old script while בָּרוּךְ (“blessed be”) both implies a quotation which is out of place here and also does not fit the later phrase, “from its place,” which requires a verb of motion.

[6:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “when you have fugitives from the sword among the nations, when you are scattered among the lands.”

[6:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “not in vain did I speak to do to them this catastrophe.” The wording of the last half of v. 10 parallels God’s declaration after the sin of the golden calf (Exod 32:14).

[7:5]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tc So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[7:14]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

[9:10]  ¹¹ 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.

[9:10]  ¹² tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.” The same expression occurs in 1 Kgs 8:32; Ezek 11:21; 16:43; 22:31.

[10:1]  ¹³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[10:1]  ¹⁴ tn Or “like a dome.” See 1:22-26.

[16:38]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and I will judge you (with) the judgments of adulteresses and of those who shed blood.”

[16:38]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and I will give you the blood of rage and zeal.”

[17:13]  ¹⁷ tn Or “descendants”; Heb “seed” (cf. v. 5).

[17:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “caused him to enter into an oath.”

[24:26]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to make the ears hear.”

[25:6]  ²⁰ tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”

[25:12]  ²¹ sn Edom was located south of Moab.

[25:12]  ²² tn Heb “and they have become guilty, becoming guilty.” The infinitive absolute following the finite verb makes the statement emphatic and draws attention to the degree of guilt incurred by Edom due to its actions.

[25:12]  ²³ tn Heb “and they have taken vengeance.”

[25:12]  ²⁴ sn Edom apparently in some way assisted in the destruction of Jerusalem in 587/6 b.c. (Ps 137:7; Lam 5:21, 23; Joel 3:19; Obadiah).

[27:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “sons of Dedan.”

[27:15]  ²⁶ tn Heb “they returned as your gift.”

[27:17]  ²⁷ sn The location is mentioned in Judg 11:33.

[27:30]  ²⁸ tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

[27:30]  ²⁹ tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.

[28:7]  ³⁰ sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.

[28:7]  ³¹ tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”

[30:15]  ³² tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.

[30:15]  ³³ tn Or “kill.”

[31:3]  ³⁴ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

[31:3]  ³⁵ sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

[35:7]  ³⁶ tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (lÿshimmah umÿshammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (lÿshimmah ushÿmamah).

[35:7]  ³⁷ tn Or “kill.”

[38:18]  ³⁸ tn Heb “goes up against.”