Yehezkiel 7:6

7:6 An end comes ¹  – the end comes! ²  It has awakened against you ³  – the end is upon you! Look, it is coming! ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ⁵  –

to place that sword ⁶  on the necks of the profane wicked, ⁷ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Yehezkiel 26:13

26:13 I will silence ⁸  the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

[7:6]  ¹ tn Or “has come.”

[7:6]  ² tn Or “has come.”

[7:6]  ³ tc With different vowels the verb rendered “it has awakened” would be the noun “the end,” as in “the end is upon you.” The verb would represent a phonetic wordplay. The noun by virtue of repetition would continue to reinforce the idea of the end. Whether verb or noun, this is the only instance to occur with this preposition.

[7:6]  ⁴ tc For this entire verse, the LXX has only “the end is come.”

[7:6]  tn In each of the three cases of the verb translated with forms of “to come,” the form may either be a participle (“comes/is coming”) or a perfect (“has come”). Either form would indicate that the end is soon to arrive. This last form appears also to be feminine, although “end” is masculine. This shift may be looking ahead to the next verse, whose first noun (“Doom”) is feminine.

[21:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

[21:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:29]  ⁷ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

[26:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “cause to end.”