Yehezkiel 14:4

14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 37:19

37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, ²  and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ ³ 

Yehezkiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ⁴  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

[14:4]  ¹ tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”

[37:19]  ² tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”

[37:19]  ³ sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.

[39:23]  ⁴ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.