Yehezkiel 5:9

5:9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. ¹ 

Yehezkiel 7:24

7:24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries ²  will be desecrated.

Yehezkiel 11:3

11:3 They say, ³  ‘The time is not near to build houses; ⁴  the city ⁵  is a cooking pot ⁶  and we are the meat in it.’

Yehezkiel 12:2

12:2 “Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. ⁷  They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, ⁸  because they are a rebellious house.

Yehezkiel 14:15

14:15 “Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

Yehezkiel 17:20

17:20 I will throw my net over him and he will be caught in my snare; I will bring him to Babylon and judge him there because of the unfaithfulness he committed against me.

Yehezkiel 18:2

18:2 “What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel,

“‘The fathers eat sour grapes

And the children’s teeth become numb?’ ⁹ 

Yehezkiel 22:4

22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; ¹⁰  the end of your years has come. ¹¹  Therefore I will make ¹²  you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

Yehezkiel 29:10

29:10 I am against ¹³  you and your waterways. I will turn the land of Egypt into an utter desolate ruin from Migdol ¹⁴  to Syene, ¹⁵  as far as the border with Ethiopia.

Yehezkiel 33:7

33:7 “As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman ¹⁶  for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.

Yehezkiel 33:25

33:25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, ¹⁷  pray to ¹⁸  your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess ¹⁹  the land?

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.’ ²⁰ 

Yehezkiel 34:22

34:22 I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

Yehezkiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them ²¹  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. ²² 

Yehezkiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ²³  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ²⁴ 

Yehezkiel 48:12

48:12 It will be their portion from the allotment of the land, a most holy place, next to the border of the Levites.

[5:9]  ¹ tn Or “abominable idols.”

[7:24]  ² sn Or “their holy places” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

[11:3]  ³ tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.

[11:3]  ⁴ sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).

[11:3]  ⁵ tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.

[11:3]  ⁶ sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.

[12:2]  ⁷ sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

[12:2]  ⁸ sn This verse is very similar to Isa 6:9-10.

[18:2]  ⁹ tn This word only occurs here and in the parallel passage in Jer 31:29-30 in the Qal stem and in Eccl 10:10 in the Piel stem. In the latter passage it refers to the bluntness of an ax that has not been sharpened. Here the idea is of the “bluntness” of the teeth, not from having ground them down due to the bitter taste of sour grapes but to the fact that they have lost their “edge,” “bite,” or “sharpness” because they are numb from the sour taste. For this meaning for the word, see W. L. Holladay, Jeremiah (Hermeneia), 2:197.

[22:4]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.

[22:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.

[22:4]  ¹² tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.

[29:10]  ¹³ 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]  ¹⁴ 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]  ¹⁵ sn Syene is known today as Aswan.

[33:7]  ¹⁶ sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.

[33:25]  ¹⁷ sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

[33:25]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

[33:25]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “Will you possess?”

[33:29]  ²⁰ sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.

[36:18]  ²¹ sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

[36:18]  ²² sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.

[47:14]  ²³ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”