Ezekiel 1:4

1:4 As I watched, I noticed¹ a windstorm² coming from the north – an enormous cloud, with lightning flashing,³ such that bright light⁴ rimmed it and came from⁵ it like glowing amber⁶ from the middle of a fire.

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption,⁷ for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’⁸

Ezekiel 11:13

11:13 Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, “Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!”⁹

Ezekiel 17:9

17:9 “‘Say to them: This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Will it prosper?

Will he not rip out its roots

and cause its fruit to rot¹⁰ and wither?

All its foliage¹¹ will wither.

No strong arm or large army

will be needed to pull it out by its roots.¹²

Ezekiel 21:14

21:14 “And you, son of man, prophesy,

and clap your hands together.

Let the sword strike twice, even three times!

It is a sword for slaughter,

a sword for the great slaughter surrounding them.

Ezekiel 29:3

29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Look, I am against¹³ you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

the great monster¹⁴ lying in the midst of its waterways,

who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.”¹⁵

Ezekiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar¹⁶ of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre.¹⁷ Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Ezekiel 36:23

36:23 I will magnify¹⁸ my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.

Ezekiel 38:13

38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors¹⁹ will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’

Ezekiel 43:14

43:14 From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet,²⁰ and the width 1¾ feet;²¹ and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet,²² and the width 1¾ feet;

Ezekiel 47:10

47:10 Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea.²³

¹tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

²sn Storms are often associated with appearances of God (see Nah 1:3; Ps 18:12). In some passages, the “storm” (סְעָרָה, sÿ’arah) may be a whirlwind (Job 38:1, 2 Kgs 2:1).

³tn Heb “fire taking hold of itself,” perhaps repeatedly. The phrase occurs elsewhere only in Exod 9:24 in association with a hailstorm. The LXX interprets the phrase as fire flashing like lightning, but it is possibly a self-sustaining blaze of divine origin. The LXX also reverses the order of the descriptors, i.e., “light went around it and fire flashed like lightning within it.”

⁴tn Or “radiance.” The term also occurs in 1:27b.

⁵tc Or “was in it”; cf. LXX ἐν τῷ μέσῳ αὐτοῦ (en tw mesw autou, “in its midst”).

⁶tn The LXX translates חַשְׁמַל (khashmal) with the word ἤλεκτρον (hlektron, “electrum”; so NAB), an alloy of silver and gold, perhaps envisioning a comparison to the glow of molten metal.

⁷tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

⁸sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

¹³tc The LXX reads this statement as a question. Compare this to the question in 9:8. It is possible that the interrogative particle has been omitted by haplography. However, an exclamatory statement as in the MT also makes sense and the LXX may have simply tried to harmonize this passage with 9:8.

¹⁹tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT and appears to have the meaning of “strip off.” In application to fruit the meaning may be “cause to rot.”

²⁰tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.

²¹tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”

²⁵tn 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.

²⁶tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew mss read correctly “the serpent.” The Hebrew term appears to refer to a serpent in Exod 7:9-10, 12; Deut 32:33; and Ps 91:13. It also refers to large creatures that inhabit the sea (Gen 1:21; Ps 148:7). In several passages it is associated with the sea or with the multiheaded sea monster Leviathan (Job 7:12; Ps 74:13; Isa 27:1; 51:9). Because of the Egyptian setting of this prophecy and the reference to the creature’s scales (v. 4), many understand a crocodile to be the referent here (e.g., NCV “a great crocodile”; TEV “you monster crocodile”; CEV “a giant crocodile”).

²⁷sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.

³¹tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

³²sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

³⁷tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”

⁴³tn Heb “young lions.”

⁴⁹tn Heb “two cubits” (i.e., 1.05 meters).

⁵⁰tn Heb “one cubit” (i.e., 52.5 cm; the phrase occurs again later in this verse).

⁵¹tn Heb “four cubits” (i.e., 2.1 meters; the phrase also occurs in the next verse).

⁵⁵sn The Great Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea (also in vv. 15, 19, 20).