Yehezkiel 3:10

3:10 And he said to me, “Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.

Yehezkiel 4:1

Ominous Object Lessons

4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick ¹  and set it in front of you. Inscribe ²  a city on it – Jerusalem.

Yehezkiel 5:4

5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, ³  and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

Yehezkiel 10:6

10:6 When the Lord ⁴  commanded the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man ⁵  went in and stood by one of the wheels. ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 16:17

16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution ⁷  with them.

Yehezkiel 16:20

16:20 “‘You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them ⁸  as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough,

Yehezkiel 16:39

16:39 I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

Yehezkiel 16:61

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Yehezkiel 18:8

18:8 does not engage in usury or charge interest, ⁹  but refrains ¹⁰  from wrongdoing, promotes true justice ¹¹  between men,

Yehezkiel 18:13

18:13 engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. ¹²  He will bear the responsibility for his own death. ¹³ 

Yehezkiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ¹⁴  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; ¹⁵  he will surely live.

Yehezkiel 22:25

22:25 Her princes ¹⁶  within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows ¹⁷  within it.

Yehezkiel 23:10

23:10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious ¹⁸  among women, and they executed judgments against her.

Yehezkiel 23:29

23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, ¹⁹  and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct. ²⁰ 

Yehezkiel 24:5

24:5 Take the choice bone of the flock,

heap up bones under it;

boil rapidly,

and boil its bones in it.

Yehezkiel 24:16

24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, ²¹  but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

Yehezkiel 27:5

27:5 They crafted ²²  all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; ²³ 

they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.

Yehezkiel 30:4

30:4 A sword will come against Egypt

and panic will overtake Ethiopia

when the slain fall in Egypt

and they carry away her wealth

and dismantle her foundations.

Yehezkiel 33:4

33:4 but there is one who hears the sound of the trumpet yet does not heed the warning. Then the sword comes and sweeps him away. He will be responsible for his own death. ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 36:30

36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

Yehezkiel 43:20

43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it. ²⁵ 

Yehezkiel 45:18-19

45:18 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary. 45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.

Yehezkiel 46:18

46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

[4:1]  ¹ sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.

[4:1]  ² tn Or perhaps “draw.”

[5:4]  ³ tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

[10:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man dressed in linen) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “the wheel.”

[16:17]  ⁷ tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).

[16:20]  ⁸ sn The sacrifice of children was prohibited in Lev 18:21; 20:2; Deut 12:31; 18:10.

[18:8]  ⁹ sn This law was given in Lev 25:36.

[18:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb, “turns back his hand.”

[18:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “justice of truth.”

[18:13]  ¹² tn Heb “be put to death.” The translation follows an alternative reading that appears in several ancient textual witnesses.

[18:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “his blood will be upon him.”

[18:17]  ¹⁴ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

[18:17]  ¹⁵ 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.”

[22:25]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “a conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst.” The LXX reads “whose princes” rather than “a conspiracy of prophets.” The prophets are mentioned later in the paragraph (v. 28). If one follows the LXX in verse 25, then five distinct groups are mentioned in vv. 25-29: princes, priests, officials, prophets, and the people of the land. For a defense of the Septuagintal reading, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:720, n. 4.

[22:25]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “her widows they have multiplied.” The statement alludes to their murderous acts.

[23:10]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “name.”

[23:29]  ¹⁹ tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.

[23:29]  ²⁰ tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”

[24:16]  ²¹ tn Heb “a strike.”

[27:5]  ²² tn Heb “built.”

[27:5]  ²³ tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.

[33:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”

[43:20]  ²⁵ sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.