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.

Yehezkiel 38:12

38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack ¹  the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center ²  of the earth.”

Yehezkiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ³  was struck down, on this very day, ⁴  the hand ⁵  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ⁶ 

[38:12]  ¹ tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”

[38:12]  ² tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”

[40:1]  ³ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ⁴ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ⁵ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[40:1]  ⁶ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).