Yehezkiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Yehezkiel 9:3

9:3 Then the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub where it had rested to the threshold of the temple. ³  He called to the man dressed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

Yehezkiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ⁴  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ⁵  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Yehezkiel 13:9

13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council ⁶  of my people, nor be written in the registry ⁷  of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 14:4

14:4 Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry. ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 14:11

14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, ⁹  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 18:30

18:30 “Therefore I will judge each person according to his conduct, ¹⁰  O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord. Repent ¹¹  and turn from all your wickedness; then it will not be an obstacle leading to iniquity. ¹² 

Yehezkiel 20:9

20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, ¹³  so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, ¹⁴  before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. ¹⁵ 

Yehezkiel 20:27

20:27 “Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.

Yehezkiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹⁶  – 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, ¹⁷  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ¹⁸ 

Yehezkiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, ¹⁹  if you will not listen to me. ²⁰  But my holy name will not be profaned ²¹  again by your sacrifices ²²  and your idols.

Yehezkiel 20:44

20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 22:18

22:18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; ²³  they are the worthless slag of silver.

Yehezkiel 24:21

24:21 Say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary – the source of your confident pride, ²⁴  the object in which your eyes delight, ²⁵  and your life’s passion. ²⁶  Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die ²⁷  by the sword.

Yehezkiel 28:25

28:25 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power ²⁸  over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

Yehezkiel 33:11-12

33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior ²⁹  and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! ³⁰  Why should you die, O house of Israel?’

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ³¹  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ³²  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ³³  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ³⁴  if he sins.’ ³⁵ 

Yehezkiel 33:30

33:30 “But as for you, son of man, your people ³⁶  (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, ³⁷  ‘Come hear the word that comes ³⁸  from the Lord.’

Yehezkiel 35:15

35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so will I deal with you – you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom – all of it! Then they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Yehezkiel 37:19

37:19 tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the branch of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will place them on the stick of Judah, ³⁹  and make them into one stick – they will be one in my hand.’ ⁴⁰ 

Yehezkiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ⁴¹  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

Yehezkiel 40:4

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ⁴²  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ⁴³  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Yehezkiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

Yehezkiel 44:12

44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ⁴⁴  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ⁴⁵  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ⁴⁶  for their sin.

[4:3]  ¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[9:3]  ³ tn Heb “house.”

[10:19]  ⁴ tn Heb “lifted.”

[10:19]  ⁵ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

[13:9]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the Lord (Jer 23:18; Job 15:8), but here it more likely refers to a human council comprised of civic leaders (Gen 49:6; Jer 6:11; 15:17 Ps 64:3; 111:1).

[13:9]  ⁷ tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).

[14:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”

[14:11]  ⁹ sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.

[18:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “ways.”

[18:30]  ¹¹ tn The verbs and persons in this verse are plural whereas the individual has been the subject of the chapter.

[18:30]  ¹² tn Or “leading to punishment.”

[20:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”

[20:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”

[20:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.

[20:31]  ¹⁶ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ¹⁷ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ¹⁸ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[20:39]  ¹⁹ sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

[20:39]  ²⁰ tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

[20:39]  ²¹ sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

[20:39]  ²² tn Or “gifts.”

[22:18]  ²³ tn For similar imagery, see Isa 1:21-26; Jer 6:27-30.

[24:21]  ²⁴ tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”

[24:21]  ²⁵ sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.

[24:21]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”

[24:21]  ²⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

[28:25]  ²⁸ tn Or “reveal my holiness.” See verse 22.

[33:11]  ²⁹ tn Heb “turn from his way.”

[33:11]  ³⁰ tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.

[33:12]  ³¹ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ³² tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

[33:12]  ³³ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ³⁴ tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ³⁵ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

[33:30]  ³⁶ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

[33:30]  ³⁷ tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”

[33:30]  ³⁸ tn Heb “comes out.”

[37:19]  ³⁹ tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”

[37:19]  ⁴⁰ sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.

[39:23]  ⁴¹ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.

[40:4]  ⁴² tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

[40:4]  ⁴³ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

[44:12]  ⁴⁴ tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

[44:12]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[44:12]  ⁴⁶ tn Heb “will bear.”