Yehezkiel 3:7

3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹  because they are not willing to listen to me, ²  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ³ 

Yehezkiel 5:6

5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ⁴  and the countries around her. ⁵  Indeed, they ⁶  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Yehezkiel 12:12

12:12 “The prince ⁷  who is among them will raise his belongings ⁸  onto his shoulder in darkness, and will go out. He ⁹  will dig a hole in the wall to leave through. He will cover his face so that he cannot see the land with his eyes.

Yehezkiel 12:23

12:23 Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 12:25

12:25 For I, the Lord, will speak. Whatever word I speak will be accomplished. It will not be delayed any longer. Indeed in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and accomplish it, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 12:28

12:28 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 14:23

14:23 They will console you when you see their behavior and their deeds, because you will know that it was not without reason that I have done everything which I have done in it, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ¹¹  you were thrown out into the open field ¹²  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Yehezkiel 16:49

16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity ¹³  of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help ¹⁴  the poor and needy.

Yehezkiel 16:63

16:63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent ¹⁵  when I make atonement for all you have done, ¹⁶  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ¹⁷  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ¹⁸  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ¹⁹  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Yehezkiel 17:16

17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city ²⁰  of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!

Yehezkiel 18:19

18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer ²¹  for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

Yehezkiel 18:24

18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. ²² 

Yehezkiel 18:30

18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, ²³  O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent ²⁴  and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. ²⁵ 

Yehezkiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ²⁶  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ²⁷ 

Yehezkiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ²⁸  if you will not listen to me. ²⁹  But my holy name will not be profaned ³⁰  again by your sacrifices ³¹  and your idols.

Yehezkiel 24:25

24:25 “And you, son of man, this is what will happen on the day I take ³²  from them their stronghold – their beautiful source of joy, the object in which their eyes delight, and the main concern of their lives, ³³  as well as their sons and daughters: ³⁴ 

Yehezkiel 26:19-20

26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging ³⁵  waters overwhelm you, 26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, ³⁶  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ³⁷  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ³⁸  in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ³⁹  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ⁴⁰  and you said, “I am a god; ⁴¹ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ⁴² 

Yehezkiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ⁴³  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ⁴⁴  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Yehezkiel 30:13

30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

I will destroy the idols,

and put an end to the gods of Memphis.

There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. ⁴⁵ 

Yehezkiel 30:21

30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm ⁴⁶  of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁴⁷  Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.

Yehezkiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, ⁴⁸  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, ⁴⁹  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 33:13

33:13 Suppose I tell the righteous that he will certainly live, but he becomes confident in his righteousness and commits iniquity. None of his righteous deeds will be remembered; because of the iniquity he has committed he will die.

Yehezkiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ⁵⁰  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ⁵¹  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ⁵²  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁵³ 

Yehezkiel 33:27

33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die ⁵⁴  by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Yehezkiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, ⁵⁵  and they sit in front of you as ⁵⁶  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey ⁵⁷  them. For they talk lustfully, ⁵⁸  and their heart is set on ⁵⁹  their own advantage. ⁶⁰ 

Yehezkiel 34:2

34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds ⁶¹  of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?

Yehezkiel 36:5

36:5 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

Yehezkiel 36:22

36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation ⁶²  which you profaned among the nations where you went.

Yehezkiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ⁶³  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Yehezkiel 39:7

39:7 “‘I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; I will not let my holy name be profaned anymore. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. ⁶⁴ 

Yehezkiel 41:6

41:6 The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty in each story. There were offsets in the wall all around to serve as supports for the side chambers, so that the supports were not in the wall of the temple.

Yehezkiel 42:14

42:14 When the priests enter, then they will not go out from the sanctuary to the outer court without taking off their garments in which they minister, for these are holy; they will put on other garments, then they will go near the places where the people are.”

Yehezkiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ⁶⁵ 

Yehezkiel 44:19

44:19 When they go out to the outer court to the people, they must remove the garments they were ministering in, and place them in the holy chambers; they must put on other garments so that they will not transmit holiness to the people with their garments. ⁶⁶ 

Yehezkiel 46:2

46:2 The prince will enter by way of the porch of the gate from the outside, and will stand by the doorpost of the gate. The priests will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will bow down at the threshold of the gate and then go out. But the gate will not be closed until evening.

[3:7]  ¹ sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.

[3:7]  ² sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.

[3:7]  ³ tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

[5:6]  ⁴ sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”

[5:6]  ⁶ sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.

[12:12]  ⁷ sn The prince is a reference to Zedekiah.

[12:12]  ⁸ tn The words “his belongings” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[12:12]  ⁹ tc The MT reads “they”; the LXX and Syriac read “he.”

[12:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”

[16:5]  ¹¹ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

[16:5]  ¹² sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

[16:49]  ¹³ tn Or “guilt.”

[16:49]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”

[16:63]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”

[16:63]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”

[17:12]  ¹⁷ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

[17:12]  sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[17:12]  ¹⁸ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

[17:12]  ¹⁹ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[17:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “place.”

[18:19]  ²¹ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

[18:24]  ²² tn Heb “because of them he will die.”

[18:30]  ²³ tn Heb “ways.”

[18:30]  ²⁴ tn The verbs and persons in this verse are plural whereas the individual has been the subject of the chapter.

[18:30]  ²⁵ tn Or “leading to punishment.”

[20:13]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

[20:39]  ²⁸ sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

[20:39]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

[20:39]  ³⁰ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

[20:39]  ³¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[24:25]  ³² tn Heb “(Will) it not (be) in the day I take?”

[24:25]  ³³ tn Heb “the uplifting of their soul.” According to BDB 672 s.v. מַשָּׂא 2, the term “uplifting” refers to “that to which they lift up their soul, their heart’s desire.” However, this text is the only one listed for this use. It seems more likely that the term has its well-attested nuance of “burden, load,” here and refers to that which weighs them down emotionally and is a constant source of concern or worry.

[24:25]  ³⁴ tn In the Hebrew text there is no conjunction before “their sons and daughters.” For this reason one might assume that the preceding descriptive phrases refer to the sons and daughters, but verse 21 suggests otherwise. The descriptive phrases appear to refer to the “stronghold,” which parallels “my sanctuary” in verse 21. The children constitute a separate category.

[26:19]  ³⁵ tn Heb “many.”

[26:20]  ³⁶ tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”

[26:20]  ³⁷ tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).

[26:20]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”

[28:2]  ³⁹ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

[28:2]  ⁴⁰ tn Heb “lifted up.”

[28:2]  sn See Prov 16:5.

[28:2]  ⁴¹ tn Or “I am divine.”

[28:2]  ⁴² tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”

[29:18]  ⁴³ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ⁴⁴ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[29:18]  map For location see Map1 A2; Map2 G2; Map4 A1; JP3 F3; JP4 F3.

[30:13]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”

[30:21]  ⁴⁶ sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).

[30:21]  ⁴⁷ sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.

[32:27]  ⁴⁸ tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.

[32:27]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.

[33:22]  ⁵⁰ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ⁵¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ⁵² tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ⁵³ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[33:27]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “fall.”

[33:31]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

[33:31]  ⁵⁶ tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

[33:31]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “do.”

[33:31]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

[33:31]  ⁵⁹ tn Heb “goes after.”

[33:31]  ⁶⁰ tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

[34:2]  ⁶¹ tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the Lord is often addressed as shepherd of Israel (Gen 49:24; Ps 8:1). The imagery of shepherds as Israel’s leaders is also employed (Jer 23:1-2).

[36:22]  ⁶² sn In Ezek 20:22 God refrained from punishment for the sake of his holy name. Here God’s reputation is the basis for Israel’s restoration.

[37:23]  ⁶³ tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.

[39:7]  ⁶⁴ sn The basic sense of the word “holy” is “set apart from that which is commonplace, special, unique.” The Lord’s holiness is first and foremost his transcendent sovereignty as the ruler of the world. He is “set apart” from the world over which he rules. At the same time his holiness encompasses his moral authority, which derives from his royal position. As king he has the right to dictate to his subjects how they are to live; indeed his very own character sets the standard for proper behavior. This expression is a common title for the Lord in the book of Isaiah.

[44:9]  ⁶⁵ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

[44:19]  ⁶⁶ sn For a similar concept of the transmitting of holiness, see Exod 19:12-14; Lev 10:1-2; 2 Sam 6:7. Similar laws concerning the priest are found in Lev 10 and 21.