Yehezkiel 2:7

2:7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

Yehezkiel 3:4

3:4 He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.

Yehezkiel 4:7

4:7 You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Yehezkiel 16:14

16:14 Your fame ¹  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ² 

Yehezkiel 16:18

16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.

Yehezkiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes ³  and revealed my regulations to them. The one ⁴  who carries ⁵  them out will live by them! ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 20:20

20:20 Treat my Sabbaths as holy ⁷  and they will be a reminder of our relationship, ⁸  and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

Yehezkiel 20:37

20:37 I will make you pass under ⁹  the shepherd’s staff, ¹⁰  and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.

Yehezkiel 21:30

21:30 Return it to its sheath! ¹¹ 

In the place where you were created, ¹² 

in your native land, I will judge you.

Yehezkiel 23:38

23:38 Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day ¹³  they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

Yehezkiel 23:43

23:43 Then I said about the one worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will commit immoral acts with her.’

Yehezkiel 24:8

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Yehezkiel 24:22

24:22 Then you will do as I have done: You will not cover your lip or eat food brought by others. ¹⁴ 

[16:14]  ¹ tn Heb “name.”

[16:14]  ² sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

[20:11]  ³ sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

[20:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “the man.”

[20:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “does.”

[20:11]  ⁶ tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

[20:20]  ⁷ tn Or “set apart my Sabbaths.”

[20:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they will become a sign between me and you.”

[20:37]  ⁹ tn This is the same Hebrew verb used to describe the passing of the children through the fire.

[20:37]  ¹⁰ sn The metaphor may be based in Lev 27:32 (see also Jer 33:13; Matt 25:32-33). A shepherd would count his sheep as they passed beneath his staff.

[21:30]  ¹¹ sn Once the Babylonian king’s sword (vv. 19-20) has carried out its assigned task, the Lord commands it to halt and announces that Babylon itself will also experience his judgment. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:28.

[21:30]  ¹² tn In the Hebrew text of vv. 30-32 the second person verbal and pronominal forms are feminine singular. This may indicate that the personified Babylonian sword is being addressed. The Hebrew word for “sword” (see v. 28) is feminine. However, it may refer to the Ammonites.

[23:38]  ¹³ tn Heb “in that day.”

[24:22]  ¹⁴ tn See v. 17.