Yehezkiel 3:3

3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, ¹  and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

Yehezkiel 7:2

7:2 “You, son of man – this is what the sovereign Lord says to the land of Israel: An end! The end is coming on the four corners of the land! ² 

Yehezkiel 7:8

7:8 Soon now I will pour out my rage ³  on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

Yehezkiel 7:27

7:27 The king will mourn and the prince will be clothed with shuddering; the hands of the people of the land will tremble. Based on their behavior I will deal with them, and by their standard of justice ⁴  I will judge them. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 9:7

9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

Yehezkiel 10:3

10:3 (The cherubim were standing on the south side ⁵  of the temple when the man went in, and a cloud filled the inner court.)

Yehezkiel 11:13

11:13 Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, “Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!” ⁶ 

Yehezkiel 14:14

14:14 Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, ⁷  and Job, were in it, they would save only their own lives by their righteousness, declares the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 14:19

14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

Yehezkiel 16:47

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ⁸  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ⁹  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Yehezkiel 16:57

16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram ¹⁰  and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.

Yehezkiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ¹¹  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ¹²  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ¹³  the most beautiful of all lands.

Yehezkiel 20:23

20:23 I also swore ¹⁴  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ¹⁵ 

Yehezkiel 23:32

23:32 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; ¹⁶  you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal.

Yehezkiel 23:48

23:48 I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

Yehezkiel 25:16

25:16 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill ¹⁷  the Cherethites ¹⁸  and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.

Yehezkiel 26:12

26:12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious ¹⁹  homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw ²⁰  into the water. ²¹ 

Yehezkiel 26:15

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Yehezkiel 29:6

29:6 Then all those living in Egypt will know that I am the Lord

because they were a reed staff ²²  for the house of Israel;

Yehezkiel 29:10

29:10 I am against ²³  you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol ²⁴  to Syene, ²⁵  as far as the border with Ethiopia.

Yehezkiel 29:15

29:15 It will be the most insignificant of the kingdoms; it will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

Yehezkiel 30:11

30:11 He and his people with him,

the most terrifying of the nations, ²⁶ 

will be brought there to destroy the land.

They will draw their swords against Egypt,

and fill the land with corpses.

Yehezkiel 30:13

30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

I will destroy the idols,

and put an end to the gods of Memphis.

There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. ²⁷ 

Yehezkiel 31:2

31:2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes:

“‘Who are you like in your greatness?

Yehezkiel 33:29

33:29 Then they will know that I am the Lord when I turn the land into a desolate ruin because of all the abominable deeds they have committed.’ ²⁸ 

Yehezkiel 36:21

36:21 I was concerned for my holy reputation ²⁹  which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.

Yehezkiel 37:22

37:22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms. ³⁰ 

Yehezkiel 40:13

40:13 He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet ³¹  from one entrance to the opposite one.

Yehezkiel 45:8

45:8 of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

Yehezkiel 48:17

48:17 The city will have open spaces: On the north there will be 437½ feet, ³²  on the south 437½ feet, on the east 437½ feet, and on the west 437½ feet.

[3:3]  ¹ tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.

[3:3]  sn I ate it. A similar idea of consuming God’s word is found in Jer 15:16 and Rev 10:10, where it is also compared to honey and may be specifically reminiscent of this text.

[7:2]  ² tn Or “earth.” Elsewhere the expression “four corners of the earth” figuratively refers to the whole earth (Isa 11:12).

[7:8]  ³ tn The expression “to pour out rage” also occurs in Ezek 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:31; 30:15; 36:18.

[7:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “and by their judgments.”

[10:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “right side.”

[11:13]  ⁶ tc The LXX reads this statement as a question. Compare this to the question in 9:8. It is possible that the interrogative particle has been omitted by haplography. However, an exclamatory statement as in the MT also makes sense and the LXX may have simply tried to harmonize this passage with 9:8.

[14:14]  ⁷ sn Traditionally this has been understood as a reference to the biblical Daniel, though he was still quite young when Ezekiel prophesied. One wonders if he had developed a reputation as an intercessor by this point. For this reason some prefer to see a reference to a ruler named Danel, known in Canaanite legend for his justice and wisdom. In this case all three of the individuals named would be non-Israelites, however the Ugaritic Danel is not known to have qualities of faith in the Lord that would place him in the company of the other men. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:447-50.

[16:47]  ⁸ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

[16:47]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.

[16:57]  ¹⁰ tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”

[20:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ¹² tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ¹³ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[20:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ¹⁵ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

[23:32]  ¹⁶ sn The image of a deep and wide cup suggests the degree of punishment; it will be extensive and leave the victim helpless.

[25:16]  ¹⁷ tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.

[25:16]  ¹⁸ sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.

[26:12]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “desirable.”

[26:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “set.”

[26:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “into the midst of the water.”

[29:6]  ²² sn Compare Isa 36:6.

[29:10]  ²³ 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.

[29:10]  ²⁴ sn This may refer to a site in the Egyptian Delta which served as a refuge for Jews (Jer 44:1; 46:14).

[29:10]  ²⁵ sn Syene is known today as Aswan.

[30:11]  ²⁶ tn The Babylonians were known for their cruelty (2 Kgs 25:7).

[30:13]  ²⁷ tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”

[33:29]  ²⁸ sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.

[36:21]  ²⁹ tn Heb “name.”

[37:22]  ³⁰ sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).

[40:13]  ³¹ tn Heb “twenty-five cubits” (i.e., 13.125 meters).

[48:17]  ³² tn Heb “two hundred fifty cubits” (i.e., 131.25 meters); the phrase occurs three more times in this verse.