Yehezkiel 3:14

3:14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, ¹  my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully ²  on me.

Yehezkiel 3:22-23

Isolated and Silenced

3:22 The hand ³  of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, ⁴  and I will speak with you there.” 3:23 So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, ⁵  and I threw myself face down.

Yehezkiel 7:4

7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare ⁶  you. ⁷  For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, ⁸  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. ⁹  Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Yehezkiel 11:12

11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

Yehezkiel 13:7

13:7 Have you not seen a false vision and announced a lying omen when you say, “the Lord declares,” although I myself never spoke?

Yehezkiel 13:14

13:14 I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, ¹⁰  and you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 13:21

13:21 I will tear off your headbands and rescue my people from your power; ¹¹  they will no longer be prey in your hands. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 13:23

13:23 Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you ¹²  will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 14:8

14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword ¹³  and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 15:7

15:7 I will set ¹⁴  my face against them – although they have escaped from the fire, ¹⁵  the fire will still consume them! Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.

Yehezkiel 17:21

17:21 All the choice men ¹⁶  among his troops will die ¹⁷  by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 20:1

Israel’s Rebellion

20:1 In the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth of the month, ¹⁸  some of the elders ¹⁹  of Israel came to seek ²⁰  the Lord, and they sat down in front of me.

Yehezkiel 20:12

20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths ²¹  as a reminder of our relationship, ²²  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ²³ 

Yehezkiel 20:26

20:26 I declared them to be defiled because of their sacrifices ²⁴  – they caused all their first born to pass through the fire ²⁵  – so that I would devastate them, so that they will know that I am the Lord.’ ²⁶ 

Yehezkiel 20:42

20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore ²⁷  to give to your fathers.

Yehezkiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ²⁸ 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Yehezkiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ²⁹  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ³⁰  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Yehezkiel 22:22

22:22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you will be melted in it, and you will know that I, the Lord, have poured out my anger on you.’”

Yehezkiel 25:5

25:5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon ³¹  a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 25:17

25:17 I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. ³²  Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

Yehezkiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ³³  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ³⁴  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 29:16

29:16 It will never again be Israel’s source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. ³⁵  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 29:21

29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, ³⁶  and I will give you the right to be heard ³⁷  among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ³⁸  evil men.

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

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 32:15

32:15 When I turn the land of Egypt into desolation

and the land is destitute of everything that fills it,

when I strike all those who live in it,

then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Yehezkiel 33:29

33:29 Then they will know that I am the Lord when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’ ³⁹ 

Yehezkiel 35:12

35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

Yehezkiel 37:6

37:6 I will put tendons ⁴⁰  on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath ⁴¹  in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 37:28

37:28 Then, when my sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel.’” ⁴² 

Yehezkiel 38:23

38:23 I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Yehezkiel 39:6

39:6 I will send fire on Magog and those who live securely in the coastlands; then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 40:46

40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

Yehezkiel 41:22

41:22 The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet ⁴³  high, with its length 3½ feet; ⁴⁴  its corners, its length, ⁴⁵  and its walls were of wood. He said to me, “This is the table that is before the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 46:4

46:4 The burnt offering which the prince will offer to the Lord on the Sabbath day will be six unblemished lambs and one unblemished ram.

Yehezkiel 48:14

48:14 They must not sell or exchange any of it; they must not transfer this choice portion of land, for it is set apart ⁴⁶  to the Lord.

[3:14]  ¹ tn The traditional interpretation is that Ezekiel embarked on his mission with bitterness and anger, either reflecting God’s attitude toward the sinful people or his own feelings about having to carry out such an unpleasant task. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:13) takes “bitterly” as a misplaced marginal note and understands the following word, normally translated “anger,” in the sense of fervor or passion. He translates, “I was passionately moved” (p. 4). Another option is to take the word translated “bitterly” as a verb meaning “strengthened” (attested in Ugaritic). See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 152.

[3:14]  ² tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was on me heavily.” The “hand of the Lord” is a metaphor for his power or influence; the modifier conveys intensity.

[3:14]  sn In Ezekiel God’s “hand” being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[3:22]  ³ tn Or “power.”

[3:22]  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 (1:3; 3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[3:22]  ⁴ sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.

[3:23]  ⁵ tn Or “canal.”

[7:4]  ⁶ 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.

[7:4]  ⁷ tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

[7:4]  ⁸ tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

[7:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

[13:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “within it,” referring to the city of Jerusalem.

[13:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “from your hand(s).” This refers to their power over the people.

[13:23]  ¹² tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.

[14:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “proverbs.”

[15:7]  ¹⁴ tn The word translated “set” is the same Hebrew word translated as “provide” in the previous verse.

[15:7]  ¹⁵ sn This escape refers to the exile of Ezekiel and others in 597 b.c. (Ezek 1:2; 2 Kgs 24:10-16).

[17:21]  ¹⁶ tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).

[17:21]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[20:1]  ¹⁸ sn The date would be August 14th, 591 b.c. The seventh year is the seventh year of Jehoiachin’s exile.

[20:1]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “men from the elders.”

[20:1]  ²⁰ tn See the note at 14:3.

[20:12]  ²¹ sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).

[20:12]  ²² tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”

[20:12]  ²³ tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.

[20:26]  ²⁴ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:26]  ²⁵ sn This act is prohibited in Deut 12:29-31 and Jer 7:31; 19:5; 32:35. See also 2 Kgs 21:6; 23:10. This custom indicates that the laws the Israelites were following were the disastrous laws of pagan nations (see Ezek 16:20-21).

[20:26]  ²⁶ sn God sometimes punishes sin by inciting the sinner to sin even more, as the biblical examples of divine hardening and deceit make clear. See Robert B. Chisholm, Jr., “Divine Hardening in the Old Testament,” BSac 153 (1996): 410-34; idem, “Does God Deceive?” BSac 155 (1998): 11-28. For other instances where the Lord causes individuals to act unwisely or even sinfully as punishment for sin, see 1 Sam 2:25; 2 Sam 17:14; 1 Kgs 12:15; 2 Chr 25:20.

[20:42]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[21:32]  ²⁸ tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

[22:14]  ²⁹ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

[22:14]  ³⁰ tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

[25:5]  ³¹ tn Heb “the sons of Ammon.”

[25:17]  ³² tn Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”

[28:23]  ³³ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ³⁴ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[29:16]  ³⁵ tn Heb “reminding of iniquity when they turned after them.”

[29:21]  ³⁶ tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.

[29:21]  ³⁷ tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”

[30:12]  ³⁸ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

[33:29]  ³⁹ sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.

[37:6]  ⁴⁰ tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.

[37:6]  ⁴¹ tn Or “a spirit.”

[37:28]  ⁴² sn The sanctuary of Israel becomes the main focus of Ezek 40-48.

[41:22]  ⁴³ tn Heb “three cubits” (i.e., 1.575 meters).

[41:22]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

[41:22]  ⁴⁵ tc So the Masoretic text. The LXX reads “base.”

[48:14]  ⁴⁶ tn Or “holy.”