Yehezkiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare ¹  you.

Yehezkiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ²  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ³  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁴  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁵  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Yehezkiel 13:20

13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note ⁶  that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives ⁷  like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

Yehezkiel 32:21

32:21 The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying: ‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’

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 ⁸  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

[5:11]  ¹ 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.

[8:3]  ² tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

[8:3]  ³ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

[8:3]  ⁴ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[8:3]  ⁵ tn Or “image.”

[13:20]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[13:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

[37:23]  ⁸ 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.