Yehezkiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ¹  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ²  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ³  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ⁵  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ⁶  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ⁷  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ⁸  if he sins.’ ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 34:10

34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; ¹⁰  the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for 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. ¹¹ 

Yehezkiel 34:27

34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

¹ tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

² sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

³ tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

⁴ tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

⁶ tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

⁷ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

⁸ tn Heb “by it.”

⁹ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”

¹¹ sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6 b.c.