Yehezkiel 7:3

7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge ¹  you according to your behavior, ²  I will hold you accountable for ³  all your abominable practices.

Yehezkiel 11:3

11:3 They say, ⁴  ‘The time is not near to build houses; ⁵  the city ⁶  is a cooking pot ⁷  and we are the meat in it.’

Yehezkiel 13:5

13:5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

Yehezkiel 13:10-11

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ⁸  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ⁹  they coat it with whitewash. 13:11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones ¹⁰  will fall and a violent wind will break out. ¹¹ 

Yehezkiel 13:16

13:16 those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem ¹²  and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the sovereign Lord.’

Yehezkiel 16:3

16:3 and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Yehezkiel 21:3

21:3 and say to them, ¹³  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ¹⁴  I am against you. ¹⁵  I will draw my sword ¹⁶  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ¹⁷ 

Yehezkiel 23:49

23:49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. ¹⁸  Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 29:6

29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord

because they were a reed staff ¹⁹  for the house of Israel;

Yehezkiel 29:9

29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”

Yehezkiel 29:13

29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years ²⁰  I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

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. ²¹  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 30:4

30:4 A sword will come against Egypt

and panic will overtake Ethiopia

when the slain fall in Egypt

and they carry away her wealth

and dismantle her foundations.

Yehezkiel 33:14

33:14 Suppose I say to the wicked, ‘You must certainly die,’ but he turns from his sin and does what is just and right.

Yehezkiel 34:20

34:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says to them: Look, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

Yehezkiel 36:37

36:37 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: I will allow the house of Israel to ask me to do this for them: ²²  I will multiply their people like sheep. ²³ 

[7:3]  ¹ tn Or “punish” (cf. BDB 1047 s.v. שָׁפַט 3.c).

[7:3]  ² tn Heb “ways.”

[7:3]  ³ tn Heb “I will place on you.”

[11:3]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.

[11:3]  ⁵ sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).

[11:3]  ⁶ tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.

[11:3]  ⁷ sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.

[13:10]  ⁸ tn Or “peace.”

[13:10]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.

[13:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and you, O hailstones.”

[13:11]  ¹¹ sn A violent wind will break out. God’s judgments are frequently described in storm imagery (Pss 18:7-15; 77:17-18; 83:15; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Jer 23:19; 30:23).

[13:16]  ¹² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[21:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

[21:3]  ¹⁴ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

[21:3]  ¹⁵ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[21:3]  ¹⁶ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

[21:3]  ¹⁷ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

[23:49]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and the sins of your idols you will bear.” By extension it can mean the punishment for the sins.

[29:6]  ¹⁹ sn Compare Isa 36:6.

[29:13]  ²⁰ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.

[29:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “reminding of iniquity when they turned after them.”

[36:37]  ²² tn The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”

[36:37]  ²³ sn Heb “I will multiply them like sheep, human(s).”