Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ¹  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ²  and I will give them tender hearts, ³ 

Ezekiel 11:24

11:24 Then a wind ⁴  lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, ⁵  in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.

Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

Ezekiel 13:11

13:11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones ⁶  will fall and a violent wind will break out. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! ⁸  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 19:12

19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.

The east wind ⁹  dried up its fruit;

its strong branches broke off and withered –

a fire consumed them.

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone ¹⁰  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 37:8

37:8 As I watched, I saw ¹²  tendons on them, then muscles appeared, ¹³  and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath ¹⁴  in them.

¹ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

² tn Heb “their flesh.”

³ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

⁴ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁵ tn Heb “to Chaldea.”

⁷ tn Heb “and you, O hailstones.”

⁸ sn A violent wind will break out. God’s judgments are frequently described in storm imagery (Pss 18:7-15; 77:17-18; 83:15; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Jer 23:19; 30:23).

¹⁰ sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

¹³ sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.

¹⁶ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

¹⁷ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

¹⁹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

²⁰ tn Heb “came up.”

²¹ tn Or “spirit.”