Yehezkiel 34:16

34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!

Yehezkiel 20:19

20:19 I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Yehezkiel 44:8

44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Yehezkiel 17:14

17:14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Yehezkiel 19:3

19:3 She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion.

He learned to tear prey; he devoured people. ² 

Yehezkiel 44:14

44:14 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

Yehezkiel 18:9

18:9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. ³  That man ⁴  is righteous; he will certainly live, ⁵  declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 18:19

18:19 “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer ⁶  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 18:21

18:21 “But if the wicked person turns from all the sin he has committed and observes all my statutes and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die.

Yehezkiel 36:27

36:27 I will put my Spirit within you; ⁷  I will take the initiative and you will obey my statutes ⁸  and carefully observe my regulations. ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 18:27

18:27 When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Yehezkiel 19:2

19:2 and say:

“‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions!

She lay among young lions; ¹⁰  she reared her cubs.

Yehezkiel 19:5

19:5 “‘When she realized that she waited in vain, her hope was lost.

She took another of her cubs ¹¹  and made him a young lion.

Yehezkiel 34:11

34:11 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.

Yehezkiel 40:45

40:45 He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ¹² 

Yehezkiel 37:24

37:24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow ¹³  my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. ¹⁴ 

Yehezkiel 44:24

44:24 “‘In a controversy they will act as judges; ¹⁵  they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe ¹⁶  my Sabbaths.

Yehezkiel 48:11

48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. ¹⁷ 

Yehezkiel 11:20

11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ¹⁸ 

Yehezkiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Yehezkiel 20:14

20:14 I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Yehezkiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ¹⁹  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ²⁰  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Yehezkiel 32:13

32:13 I will destroy all its cattle beside the plentiful waters;

and no human foot will disturb ²¹  the waters ²²  again,

nor will the hooves of cattle disturb them.

Yehezkiel 34:23

34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. ²³  He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Yehezkiel 40:46

40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

Yehezkiel 44:16

44:16 They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

Yehezkiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children ²⁴  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys ²⁵  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out ²⁶  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Yehezkiel 5:7

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ²⁷  than the nations around you, ²⁸  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ²⁹  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Yehezkiel 6:12

6:12 The one far away will die by pestilence, the one close by will fall by the sword, and whoever is left and has escaped these ³⁰  will die by famine. I will fully vent my rage against them.

Yehezkiel 17:9

17:9 “‘Say to them: This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Will it prosper?

Will he not rip out its roots

and cause its fruit to rot ³¹  and wither?

All its foliage ³²  will wither.

No strong arm or large army

will be needed to pull it out by its roots. ³³ 

Yehezkiel 34:4

34:4 You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness ³⁴  you have ruled over them.

Yehezkiel 34:12

34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. ³⁵ 

Yehezkiel 36:11

36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. ³⁶  I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. ³⁷  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 43:11

43:11 When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design – all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.

Yehezkiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ³⁸  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

[44:8]  ¹ tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.

[44:8]  tn This word is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.

[19:3]  ² tn Heb “a man.”

[18:9]  ³ tc The MT reads לַעֲשׂוֹת אֱמֶת (la’asot ’emet, “to do with integrity”), while the LXX reads “to do them,” presupposing לַעֲשׂוֹת אֹתָם (la’asot ’otam). The ם (mem) and ת (tav) have been reversed in the MT. The LXX refelcts the original, supported by similar phrasing in Ezekiel 11:20; 20:19.

[18:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “he.”

[18:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “living, he will live.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[18:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

[36:27]  ⁷ tn Or “in the midst of you.” The word “you” is plural.

[36:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “and I will do that which in my statutes you will walk.” The awkward syntax (verb “to do, act” + accusative sign + relative clause + prepositional phrase + second person verb) is unique, though Eccl 3:14 contains a similar construction. In the last line of that verse we read that “God acts so that (relative pronoun) they fear before him.” However, unlike Ezek 36:27, the statement has no accusative sign before the relative pronoun.

[36:27]  ⁹ tn Heb “and my laws you will guard and you will do them.” Jer 31:31-34 is parallel to this passage.

[19:2]  ¹⁰ sn Lions probably refer to Judahite royalty and/or nobility. The lioness appears to symbolize the Davidic dynasty, though some see the referent as Hamutal, the wife of Josiah and mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah. Gen 49:9 seems to be the background for Judah being compared to lions.

[19:5]  ¹¹ sn The identity of this second lion is unclear; the referent is probably Jehoiakim or Zedekiah. If the lioness is Hamutal, then Zedekiah is the lion described here.

[40:45]  ¹² tn Heb “the house.”

[37:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “walk [in].”

[37:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”

[44:24]  ¹⁵ sn For a historical illustration of the priest carrying out this function, see 2 Chr 19:9-11.

[44:24]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “sanctify, set apart.”

[48:11]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “strayed off.”

[11:20]  ¹⁸ sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).

[20:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ²⁰ tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[32:13]  ²¹ tn Heb “muddy.”

[32:13]  ²² tn Heb “them,” that is, the waters mentioned in the previous line. The translation clarifies the referent.

[34:23]  ²³ sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).

[20:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “sons.”

[20:21]  ²⁵ tn Or “carries them out.”

[20:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[5:7]  ²⁷ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

[5:7]  ²⁸ sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

[5:7]  ²⁹ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

[6:12]  ³⁰ tn Heb “the one who is left, the one who is spared.”

[17:9]  ³¹ tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT and appears to have the meaning of “strip off.” In application to fruit the meaning may be “cause to rot.”

[17:9]  ³² tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.

[17:9]  ³³ tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”

[34:4]  ³⁴ tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).

[34:12]  ³⁵ sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6 b.c.

[36:11]  ³⁶ sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.

[36:11]  ³⁷ tn Heb “your beginning.”

[44:15]  ³⁸ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).