7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster 1 – a one-of-a-kind 2 disaster – is coming!
21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, 3
whose day has come, the time of final punishment,
43:6 I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.
1 tn The Hebrew term often refers to moral evil (see Ezek 6:10; 14:22), but in many contexts it refers to calamity or disaster, sometimes as punishment for evil behavior.
2 tc So most Hebrew
1 tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.
1 tc The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה (lÿshimmah umÿshammah, “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem (מ) with the shin (שׁ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה (lÿshimmah ushÿmamah).
2 tn Or “kill.”