Ezekiel 1:20

1:20 Wherever the spirit ¹  would go, they would go, ²  and the wheels would rise up beside them because the spirit ³  of the living being was in the wheel.

Ezekiel 3:22-23

Isolated and Silenced

3:22 The hand ⁴  of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, ⁵  and I will speak with you there.” 3:23 So I got up and went out to the valley, and the glory of the Lord was standing there, just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, ⁶  and I threw myself face down.

Ezekiel 4:13

4:13 And the Lord said, “This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations ⁷  where I will banish them.”

Ezekiel 8:14

8:14 Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed ⁸  women sitting there weeping for Tammuz. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 16:14

16:14 Your fame ¹⁰  spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign Lord. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 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.

Ezekiel 20:29

20:29 So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?’” (So it is called “High Place” ¹²  to this day.)

Ezekiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ¹³  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ¹⁴  because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Ezekiel 23:10

23:10 They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious ¹⁵  among women, and they executed judgments against her.

Ezekiel 29:14

29:14 I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and will bring them back ¹⁶  to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin; there they will be an insignificant kingdom.

Ezekiel 30:18

30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark ¹⁷ 

when I break the yoke of Egypt there.

Her confident pride will cease within her;

a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 32:26

32:26 “Meshech-Tubal is there, along with all her hordes around her grave. ¹⁸  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for they spread their terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 35:10

35:10 “‘You said, “These two nations, these two lands ¹⁹  will be mine, and we will possess them,” ²⁰  – although the Lord was there –

Ezekiel 39:28

39:28 Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land. I will not leave any of them in exile ²¹  any longer.

Ezekiel 46:24

46:24 Then he said to me, “These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people.”

¹ tn Or “wind”; the same Hebrew word can be translated as either “wind” or “spirit” depending on the context.

² tc The MT adds the additional phrase “the spirit would go,” which seems unduly redundant here and may be dittographic.

³ tn Or “wind.” The Hebrew is difficult since the text presents four creatures and then talks about “the spirit” (singular) of “the living being” (singular). According to M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:45) the Targum interprets this as “will.” Greenberg views this as the spirit of the one enthroned above the creatures, but one would not expect the article when the one enthroned has not yet been introduced.

⁴ tn Or “power.”

⁵ sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.

⁷ tn Or “canal.”

¹⁰ sn Unclean food among the nations. Lands outside of Israel were considered unclean (Josh 22:19; Amos 7:17).

¹³ tn Given the context this could be understood as a shock, e.g., idiomatically “Good grief! I saw….”

¹⁴ sn The worship of Tammuz included the observation of the annual death and descent into the netherworld of the god Dumuzi. The practice was observed by women in the ancient Near East over a period of centuries.

¹⁶ tn Heb “name.”

¹⁷ sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.

¹⁹ tn The Hebrew word (“Bamah”) means “high place.”

²² tn Heb “ways.”

²³ tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

²⁵ tn Heb “name.”

²⁸ tc Thus the Masoretic Text. The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate translate as though the Hebrew read “cause to inhabit.”

³¹ sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

³⁴ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

³⁷ sn The reference is to Israel and Judah.

³⁸ tn Heb “it.”

⁴⁰ tn Heb “there,” referring to the foreign nations to which they were exiled. The translation makes the referent clear.