Yehezkiel 4:2

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp ¹  against it! Post soldiers outside it ²  and station battering rams around it.

Yehezkiel 5:12

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ³  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ⁴  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them.

Yehezkiel 5:15

5:15 You will be ⁵  an object of scorn and taunting, ⁶  a prime example of destruction ⁷  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ⁸  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Yehezkiel 11:12

11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

Yehezkiel 16:33

16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, ⁹  but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!

Yehezkiel 23:24

23:24 They will attack ¹⁰  you with weapons, ¹¹  chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; ¹²  they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; ¹³  they will punish you according to their laws.

Yehezkiel 28:23-24

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ¹⁴  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ¹⁵  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers ¹⁶  or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. ¹⁷  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Yehezkiel 31:4

31:4 The water made it grow;

underground springs made it grow tall.

Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,

while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field. ¹⁸ 

Yehezkiel 32:23

32:23 Their ¹⁹  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ²⁰  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 32:26

32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ²¹  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Yehezkiel 36:7

36:7 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow ²²  that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

Yehezkiel 36:36

36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’

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. ²³ 

[4:2]  ¹ tn Or “a barricade.”

[4:2]  ² tn Heb “set camps against it.”

[5:12]  ³ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ⁴ sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[5:15]  ⁵ tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

[5:15]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

[5:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

[5:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

[16:33]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[23:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “come against.”

[23:24]  ¹¹ tn This is the only occurrence of this term in the OT. The precise meaning is uncertain.

[23:24]  ¹² tn Heb “an assembly of peoples.”

[23:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “I will place before them judgment.”

[28:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[28:24]  ¹⁶ sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.

[28:24]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”

[31:4]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “Waters made it grow; the deep made it grow tall. It (the deep) was flowing with its rivers around the place it (the tree) was planted, it (the deep) sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.”

[32:23]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “whose.”

[32:23]  ²⁰ tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.

[32:26]  ²¹ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

[36:7]  ²² tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[43:20]  ²³ sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.