Yehezkiel 20:19

20:19 I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Yehezkiel 18:9

18:9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. ¹  That man ²  is righteous; he will certainly live, ³  declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ⁴  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ⁵  he will surely live.

Yehezkiel 5:7

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ⁶  than the nations around you, ⁷  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ⁸  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Yehezkiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ⁹  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ¹⁰ 

Yehezkiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children ¹¹  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys ¹²  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out ¹³  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

[18:9]  ¹ 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]  ² tn Heb “he.”

[18:9]  ³ tn Heb “living, he will live.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[18:17]  ⁴ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

[18:17]  ⁵ tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[5:7]  ⁶ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

[5:7]  ⁷ sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

[5:7]  ⁸ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

[20:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

[20:21]  ¹¹ tn Heb “sons.”

[20:21]  ¹² tn Or “carries them out.”

[20:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”