Yehezkiel 1:28

1:28 like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds after the rain. ¹  This was the appearance of the surrounding brilliant light; it looked like the glory of the Lord. When I saw ²  it, I threw myself face down, and I heard a voice speaking.

Yehezkiel 3:15

3:15 I came to the exiles at Tel Abib, ³  who lived by the Kebar River. ⁴  I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 6:6

6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare ⁷  you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, ⁸  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 7:27

7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice ¹⁰  I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 16:34

16:34 You were different from other prostitutes ¹¹  because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Yehezkiel 17:23

17:23 I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel,

and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar.

Every bird will live under it;

Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.

Yehezkiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ¹²  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ¹³  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹⁴  the most beautiful of all lands.

Yehezkiel 22:20

22:20 As silver, bronze, iron, lead, and tin are gathered in a furnace so that the fire can melt them, so I will gather you in my anger and in my rage. I will deposit you there ¹⁵  and melt you.

Yehezkiel 36:38

36:38 Like the sheep for offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem ¹⁶  during her appointed feasts, so will the ruined cities be filled with flocks of people. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Yehezkiel 46:20

46:20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

[1:28]  ¹ sn Reference to the glowing substance and the brilliant light and storm phenomena in vv. 27-28a echoes in reverse order the occurrence of these phenomena in v. 4.

[1:28]  ² tn The vision closes with the repetition of the verb “I saw” from the beginning of the vision in 1:4.

[3:15]  ³ sn The name “Tel Abib” is a transliteration of an Akkadian term meaning “mound of the flood,” i.e., an ancient mound. It is not to be confused with the modern city of Tel Aviv in Israel.

[3:15]  ⁴ tn Or “canal.”

[3:15]  ⁵ sn A similar response to a divine encounter is found in Acts 9:8-9.

[6:6]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

[7:9]  ⁷ 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.

[7:9]  ⁸ tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

[7:9]  ⁹ tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

[7:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and by their judgments.”

[16:34]  ¹¹ tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”

[20:6]  ¹² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ¹³ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ¹⁴ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[22:20]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “I will put.” No object is supplied in the Hebrew, prompting many to emend the text to “I will blow.” See BHS and verse 21.

[36:38]  ¹⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.