Yehezkiel 1:9

1:9 their wings touched each other; they did not turn as they moved, but went straight ahead. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 4:4

4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity ²  of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

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. ³ 

Yehezkiel 7:7

7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day ⁴  is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. ⁵ 

Yehezkiel 8:5

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ⁶  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

Yehezkiel 10:3

10:3 (The cherubim were standing on the south side ⁷  of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

Yehezkiel 11:3

11:3 They say, ⁸  ‘The time is not near to build houses; ⁹  the city ¹⁰  is a cooking pot ¹¹  and we are the meat in it.’

Yehezkiel 11:17

11:17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather you from the peoples and assemble you from the lands where you have been dispersed, I will give you back the country of Israel.’

Yehezkiel 12:6

12:6 While they are watching, raise your baggage onto your shoulder and carry it out in the dark. ¹²  You must cover your face so that you cannot see the ground ¹³  because I have made you an object lesson ¹⁴  to the house of Israel.”

Yehezkiel 13:10

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ¹⁵  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ¹⁶  they coat it with whitewash.

Yehezkiel 14:8

14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword ¹⁷  and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 18:9

18:9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. ¹⁸  That man ¹⁹  is righteous; he will certainly live, ²⁰  declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 19:9

19:9 They put him in a collar with hooks; ²¹ 

they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him to prison ²² 

so that his voice would not be heard

any longer on the mountains of Israel.

Yehezkiel 21:21

21:21 For the king of Babylon stands at the fork ²³  in the road at the head of the two routes. He looks for omens: ²⁴  He shakes arrows, he consults idols, ²⁵  he examines ²⁶  animal livers. ²⁷ 

Yehezkiel 22:31

22:31 So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, ²⁸  declares the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 23:35

23:35 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, ²⁹  you must bear now the punishment ³⁰  for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”

Yehezkiel 23:49

23:49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. ³¹  Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 24:11

24:11 Set the empty pot on the coals, ³² 

until it becomes hot and its copper glows,

until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot ³³  is consumed.

Yehezkiel 27:10-11

27:10 Men of Persia, Lud, ³⁴  and Put were in your army, men of war.

They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.

27:11 The Arvadites ³⁵  joined your army on your walls all around,

and the Gammadites ³⁶  were in your towers.

They hung their quivers ³⁷  on your walls all around;

they perfected your beauty.

Yehezkiel 29:10

29:10 I am against ³⁸  you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol ³⁹  to Syene, ⁴⁰  as far as the border with Ethiopia.

Yehezkiel 29:13

29:13 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: At the end of forty years ⁴¹  I will gather Egypt from the peoples where they were scattered.

Yehezkiel 30:13

30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

I will destroy the idols,

and put an end to the gods of Memphis.

There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. ⁴² 

Yehezkiel 30:18

30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark ⁴³ 

when I break the yoke of Egypt there.

Her confident pride will cease within her;

a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Yehezkiel 30:21

30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm ⁴⁴  of Pharaoh king of Egypt. ⁴⁵  Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword.

Yehezkiel 36:3

36:3 So prophesy and say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip ⁴⁶  and slander among the people,

Yehezkiel 36:8

36:8 “‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon. ⁴⁷ 

Yehezkiel 36:33

36:33 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.

Yehezkiel 39:20

39:20 You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers, ⁴⁸  with warriors and all the soldiers,’ declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 40:49

40:49 The length of the porch was 35 feet ⁴⁹  and the width 19¼ feet; ⁵⁰  steps ⁵¹  led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

Yehezkiel 41:3

41:3 Then he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the jambs of the entrance as 3½ feet, ⁵²  the entrance as 10½ feet, ⁵³  and the width of the entrance as 12¼ feet ⁵⁴ 

Yehezkiel 41:5

41:5 Then he measured the wall of the temple ⁵⁵  as 10½ feet, ⁵⁶  and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, ⁵⁷  all around the temple.

Yehezkiel 44:3-4

44:3 Only the prince may sit in it to eat a sacrificial meal ⁵⁸  before the Lord; he will enter by way of the porch of the gate and will go out by the same way.”

44:4 Then he brought me by way of the north gate to the front of the temple. As I watched, I noticed ⁵⁹  the glory of the Lord filling the Lord’s temple, and I threw myself face down.

Yehezkiel 44:28

44:28 “‘This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance, and you must give them no property in Israel; I am their property. ⁶⁰ 

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.”

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 ⁶¹  to the Lord.

[1:9]  ¹ tn Heb “They each went in the direction of one of his faces.”

[4:4]  ² tn Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6).

[6:6]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

[7:7]  ⁴ sn The day refers to the day of the Lord, a concept which, beginning in Amos 5:18-20, became a common theme in the OT prophetic books. It refers to a time when the Lord intervenes in human affairs as warrior and judge.

[7:7]  ⁵ tc The LXX reads “neither tumult nor birth pains.” The LXX varies at many points from the MT in this chapter. The context suggests that one or both of these would be present on a day of judgment, thus favoring the MT. Perhaps more significant is the absence of “the mountains” in the LXX. If the ר (resh) in הָרִים (harim, “the mountains” not “on the mountains”) were a ד (dalet), which is a common letter confusion, then it could be from the same root as the previous word, הֵד (hed), meaning “the day is near – with destruction, not joyful shouting.”

[8:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”

[10:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “right side.”

[11:3]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).

[11:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.

[11:3]  ¹¹ 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.

[12:6]  ¹² 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]  ¹³ tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[12:6]  ¹⁴ sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.

[13:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “peace.”

[13:10]  ¹⁶ 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.

[14:8]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “proverbs.”

[18:9]  ¹⁸ tc The MT reads לַעֲשׂוֹת אֱמֶת (la’asot ’emet, “to do with integrity”), while the LXX reads “to do them,” presupposing לַעֲשׂוֹת אֹתָם (la’asot ’otam). The ם (mem) and ת (tav) have been reversed in the MT. The LXX refelcts the original, supported by similar phrasing in Ezekiel 11:20; 20:19.

[18:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he.”

[18:9]  ²⁰ tn Heb “living, he will live.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[19:9]  ²¹ tn Or “They put him in a neck stock with hooks.” The noun סּוּגַר (sugar), translated “collar,” occurs only here in the Bible. L. C. Allen and D. I. Block point out a Babylonian cognate that refers to a device for transporting prisoners of war that held them by their necks (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:597, n. 35; L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284). Based on the Hebrew root, the traditional rendering had been “cage” (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[19:9]  ²² tc The term in the MT occurs only here and in Eccl 9:12 where it refers to a net for catching fish. The LXX translates this as “prison,” which assumes a confusion of dalet and resh took place in the MT.

[21:21]  ²³ tn Heb “mother.”

[21:21]  ²⁴ sn Mesopotamian kings believed that the gods revealed the future through omens. They employed various divination techniques, some of which are included in the list that follows. A particularly popular technique was the examination and interpretation of the livers of animals. See R. R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 90-110.

[21:21]  ²⁵ tn This word refers to personal idols that were apparently used for divination purposes (Gen 31:19; 1 Sam 19:13, 16).

[21:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “sees.”

[21:21]  ²⁷ tn Heb “the liver.”

[22:31]  ²⁸ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”

[23:35]  ²⁹ tn Heb “and you cast me behind your back.” The expression pictures her rejection of the Lord (see 1 Kgs 14:9).

[23:35]  ³⁰ tn The word “punishment” is not in the Hebrew text but is demanded by the context.

[23:49]  ³¹ tn Heb “and the sins of your idols you will bear.” By extension it can mean the punishment for the sins.

[24:11]  ³² tn Heb “set it upon its coals, empty.”

[24:11]  ³³ tn Or “rust” (so also in v. 12).

[27:10]  ³⁴ sn See Gen 10:22.

[27:11]  ³⁵ tn Heb “sons of Arvad.”

[27:11]  ³⁶ sn The identity of the Gammadites is uncertain.

[27:11]  ³⁷ tn See note on “quivers” in Jer 51:11 on the meaning of Hebrew שֶׁלֶט (shelet) and also M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:553.

[29:10]  ³⁸ 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.

[29:10]  ³⁹ sn This may refer to a site in the Egyptian Delta which served as a refuge for Jews (Jer 44:1; 46:14).

[29:10]  ⁴⁰ sn Syene is known today as Aswan.

[29:13]  ⁴¹ sn In Ezek 4:4-8 it was said that the house of Judah would suffer forty years.

[30:13]  ⁴² tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”

[30:18]  ⁴³ sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

[30:21]  ⁴⁴ sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).

[30:21]  ⁴⁵ sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.

[36:3]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “lip of the tongue.”

[36:8]  ⁴⁷ tn Heb “they draw near to arrive.”

[39:20]  ⁴⁸ tn Heb “chariots.”

[40:49]  ⁴⁹ tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).

[40:49]  ⁵⁰ tn Heb “eleven cubits” (i.e., 5.775 meters).

[40:49]  ⁵¹ tc The LXX reads “ten steps.”

[41:3]  ⁵² tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

[41:3]  ⁵³ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

[41:3]  ⁵⁴ tn Heb “seven cubits” (i.e., 3.675 meters).

[41:5]  ⁵⁵ tn Heb “house” throughout Ezek 41.

[41:5]  ⁵⁶ tn Heb “six cubits” (i.e., 3.15 meters).

[41:5]  ⁵⁷ tn Heb “four cubits” (2.1 meters).

[44:3]  ⁵⁸ tn Heb “to eat bread.”

[44:4]  ⁵⁹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[44:28]  ⁶⁰ sn See Num 18:20; Deut 10:9; 18:2; Josh 13:33; 18:7.

[48:14]  ⁶¹ tn Or “holy.”