Yehezkiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ¹  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ²  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Yehezkiel 6:4

6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. ³ 

Yehezkiel 13:21

13:21 I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; ⁴  they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 16:42

16:42 I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.

Yehezkiel 16:55

16:55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.

Yehezkiel 19:14

19:14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. ⁵ 

No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’

This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”

Yehezkiel 23:10

23:10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious ⁶  among women, and they executed judgments against her.

Yehezkiel 23:17

23:17 The Babylonians crawled into bed with her. ⁷  They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she ⁸  became disgusted with them.

Yehezkiel 23:48

23:48 I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

Yehezkiel 27:11

27:11 The Arvadites ⁹  joined your army on your walls all around,

and the Gammadites ¹⁰  were in your towers.

They hung their quivers ¹¹  on your walls all around;

they perfected your beauty.

Yehezkiel 31:10

31:10 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,

Yehezkiel 34:17

34:17 “‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

Yehezkiel 34:20

34:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Yehezkiel 37:28

37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” ¹² 

Yehezkiel 47:13

Boundaries for the Land

47:13 This is what the sovereign Lord says: “Here ¹³  are the borders ¹⁴  you will observe as you allot the land to the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph will have two portions.) ¹⁵ 

[5:1]  ¹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[5:1]  ² tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

[6:4]  ³ tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

[6:4]  sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.

[13:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “from your hand(s).” This refers to their power over the people.

[19:14]  ⁵ tn The verse describes the similar situation recorded in Judg 9:20.

[23:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “name.”

[23:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “The sons of Babel came to her on a bed of love.”

[23:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “her soul.”

[27:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”

[27:11]  ¹⁰ sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.

[27:11]  ¹¹ tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.

[37:28]  ¹² sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.

[47:13]  ¹³ tc This translation follows the reading זֶה (zeh) instead of גֵּה (geh), a nonexistent word, as supported by the LXX.

[47:13]  ¹⁴ tn Or “territory”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:715.

[47:13]  ¹⁵ tc The grammar is awkward, though the presence of these words is supported by the versions. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 2:274) suggests that it is an explanatory gloss.

[47:13]  sn One portion for Ephraim, the other for Manasseh (Gen 48:17-20).