Yehezkiel 6:14

6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them ¹  and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, ²  in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Yehezkiel 36:11

36:11 I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. ³  I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. ⁴  Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Yehezkiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ⁵  was struck down, on this very day, ⁶  the hand ⁷  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ⁸ 

[6:14]  ¹ sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).

[6:14]  ² tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).

[36:11]  ³ sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.

[36:11]  ⁴ tn Heb “your beginning.”

[40:1]  ⁵ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ⁶ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ⁷ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

[40:1]  ⁸ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).