Yehezkiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ²  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ³ 

Yehezkiel 30:22

30:22 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, ⁴  I am against ⁵  Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.

Yehezkiel 39:14

39:14 They will designate men to scout continually ⁶  through the land, burying those who remain on the surface of the ground, ⁷  in order to cleanse it. They will search for seven full months.

[20:31]  ¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ² tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ³ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[30:22]  ⁴ tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

[30:22]  ⁵ 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.

[39:14]  ⁶ tn Heb “men of perpetuity.”

[39:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “and bury the travelers and those who remain on the surface of the ground.” The reference to “travelers” seems odd and is omitted in the LXX. It is probably an accidental duplication (see v. 11).