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 9:1

The Execution of Idolaters

9:1 Then he shouted in my ears, “Approach, ⁴  you who are to visit destruction on the city, each with his destructive weapon in his hand!”

Yehezkiel 12:6

12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. ⁵  You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground ⁶  because I have made you an object lesson ⁷  to the house of Israel.”

Yehezkiel 13:2

13:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to the prophets who prophesy from their imagination: ⁸  ‘Hear the word of the Lord!

Yehezkiel 14:17

14:17 “Or suppose I were to bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through the land,’ and I were to kill both people and animals.

Yehezkiel 14:19

14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

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 16:41

16:41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 20:7

20:7 I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, ¹⁰  and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Yehezkiel 20:12

20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths ¹¹  as a reminder of our relationship, ¹²  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ¹³ 

Yehezkiel 22:3

22:3 Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), ¹⁴  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Yehezkiel 23:22

23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, ¹⁵  I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:

Yehezkiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ¹⁶  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ¹⁷  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 29:14

29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back ¹⁸  to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.

Yehezkiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ¹⁹  evil men.

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

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 32:12

32:12 By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall –

all of them are the most terrifying among the nations.

They will devastate the pride of Egypt,

and all its hordes will be destroyed.

Yehezkiel 33:2

33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, ²⁰  and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.

Yehezkiel 33:25

33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ²¹  pray to ²²  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ²³  the land?

Yehezkiel 43:9-10

43:9 Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

43:10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern.

Yehezkiel 43:21

43:21 You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

Yehezkiel 45:24

45:24 He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon ²⁴  of olive oil for each ephah of grain. ²⁵ 

Yehezkiel 47:5

47:5 Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

[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.”

[9:1]  ⁴ tc Heb “they approached.” Reading the imperative assumes the same consonantal text but different vowels.

[12:6]  ⁵ tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.

[12:6]  ⁶ tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[12:6]  ⁷ sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.

[13:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “from their mind.”

[13:2]  sn Who prophesy from their imagination. Note the testimony of Moses in Num 16:28, which contains a similar expression.

[16:41]  ⁹ tn The words “to your clients” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.

[20:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of his eyes, throw away.” The Pentateuch does not refer to the Israelites worshiping idols in Egypt, but Josh 24:14 appears to suggest that they did so.

[20:12]  ¹¹ sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).

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

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

[22:3]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).

[23:22]  ¹⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[28:23]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[29:14]  ¹⁸ tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”

[30:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

[33:2]  ²⁰ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

[33:25]  ²¹ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

[33:25]  ²² tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

[33:25]  ²³ tn Heb “Will you possess?”

[45:24]  ²⁴ tn Heb “a hin of oil.” A hin was about 1/16 of a bath. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:266, and O. R. Sellers, “Weights,” IDB 4:835 g.

[45:24]  ²⁵ tn Heb “ephah.” The words “of grain” are supplied in the translation as a clarification.