Yehezkiel 9:1

The Execution of Idolaters

9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, ¹  you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Yehezkiel 13:15

13:15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more –

Yehezkiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ² 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Yehezkiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ³  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ⁴  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Yehezkiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ⁵  evil men.

I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 34:24

34:24 I, the Lord, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince ⁶  among them; I, the Lord, have spoken!

[9:1]  ¹ tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.

[21:32]  ² tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

[22:14]  ³ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

[22:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

[30:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

[34:24]  ⁶ sn The messianic king (“David”) is called both “king” and “prince” in 37:24-25. The use of the term “prince” for this king facilitates the contrast between this ideal ruler and the Davidic “princes” denounced in earlier prophecies (see 7:27; 12:10, 12; 19:1; 21:25; 22:6, 25).