Yehezkiel 1:2

1:2 (On the fifth day of the month – it was the fifth year of King Jehoiachin’s exile –

Yehezkiel 1:15

1:15 Then I looked, ¹  and I saw one wheel ²  on the ground ³  beside each of the four beings.

Yehezkiel 7:5

7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster ⁴  – a one-of-a-kind ⁵  disaster – is coming!

Yehezkiel 10:1

God’s Glory Leaves the Temple

10:1 As I watched, I saw ⁶  on the platform ⁷  above the top of the cherubim something like a sapphire, resembling the shape of a throne, appearing above them.

Yehezkiel 33:33

33:33 When all this comes true – and it certainly will ⁸  – then they will know that a prophet was among them.”

Yehezkiel 35:5

35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ⁹  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

[1:15]  ¹ tc The MT adds “at the living beings” which is absent from the LXX.

[1:15]  ² sn Another vision which includes wheels on thrones occurs in Dan 7:9. Ezek 10 contains a vision similar to this one.

[1:15]  ³ tn The Hebrew word may be translated either “earth” or “ground” in this context.

[7:5]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term often refers to moral evil (see Ezek 6:10; 14:22), but in many contexts it refers to calamity or disaster, sometimes as punishment for evil behavior.

[7:5]  ⁵ tc So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

[10:1]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[10:1]  ⁷ tn Or “like a dome.” See 1:22-26.

[33:33]  ⁸ tn Heb “behold it is coming.”

[35:5]  ⁹ tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.