Yehezkiel 22:28

22:28 Her prophets coat their messages with whitewash. ¹  They see false visions and announce lying omens for them, saying, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ when the Lord has not spoken.

Yehezkiel 24:6

24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot whose rot ²  is in it,

whose rot has not been removed ³  from it!

Empty it piece by piece.

No lot has fallen on it. ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, ⁵  and they sit in front of you as ⁶  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey ⁷  them. For they talk lustfully, ⁸  and their heart is set on ⁹  their own advantage. ¹⁰ 

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. ¹¹ 

[22:28]  ¹ tn Heb “her prophets coat for themselves with whitewash.” The expression may be based on Ezek 13:10-15.

[24:6]  ² tn Or “rust.”

[24:6]  ³ tn Heb “has not gone out.”

[24:6]  ⁴ tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.

[33:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

[33:31]  ⁶ tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

[33:31]  ⁷ tn Heb “do.”

[33:31]  ⁸ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

[33:31]  ⁹ tn Heb “goes after.”

[33:31]  ¹⁰ tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

[48:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “strayed off.”