Yehezkiel 5:6

5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ¹  and the countries around her. ²  Indeed, they ³  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Yehezkiel 14:22

14:22 Yet some survivors will be left in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their behavior and their deeds, you will be consoled about the catastrophe I have brought on Jerusalem – for everything I brought on it.

Yehezkiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ⁴  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ⁵  and you said, “I am a god; ⁶ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ⁷ 

Yehezkiel 32:24

32:24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 32:30

32:30 “All the leaders of the north are there, along with all the Sidonians; despite their might they have gone down in shameful terror with the dead. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 32:32

32:32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Yehezkiel 33:24

33:24 “Son of man, the ones living in these ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land, but we are many; surely the land has been given to us for a possession.’ ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 34:16

34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!

Yehezkiel 38:8

38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, ⁹  with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people ¹⁰  were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Yehezkiel 38:12

38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack ¹¹  the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center ¹²  of the earth.”

Yehezkiel 44:11-12

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them. 44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ¹³  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ¹⁴  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ¹⁵  for their sin.

[5:6]  ¹ sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.

[5:6]  ² tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”

[5:6]  ³ sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.

[28:2]  ⁴ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

[28:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “lifted up.”

[28:2]  sn See Prov 16:5.

[28:2]  ⁶ tn Or “I am divine.”

[28:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”

[33:24]  ⁸ sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.

[38:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the sword.”

[38:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “it.”

[38:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”

[38:12]  ¹² tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”

[44:12]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[44:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “will bear.”