Ezekiel 15:3

15:3 Can wood be taken from it to make anything useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

Ezekiel 16:48

16:48 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved.

Ezekiel 17:19

17:19 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, I will certainly repay him ¹  for despising my oath and breaking my covenant!

Ezekiel 18:3

18:3 “As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, ²  you will not quote this proverb in Israel anymore!

Ezekiel 20:33

20:33 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, ³  and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you.

Ezekiel 21:13

21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? ⁴  declares the sovereign Lord.’

Ezekiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ⁵  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ⁶  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Ezekiel 35:6

35:6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Ezekiel 36:7

36:7 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow ⁷  that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

Ezekiel 38:19

38:19 In my zeal, in the fire of my fury, ⁸  I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake ⁹  in the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 44:10

44:10 “‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for ¹⁰  their sin.

Ezekiel 44:22

44:22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel ¹¹  or a widow who is a priest’s widow.

¹ tn Heb “place it on his head.”

¹ tn This expression occurs often in Ezekiel (5:11; 14:16, 18, 20; 16:48; 17:16, 19; 20:3, 31, 33; 33:11, 27; 34:8; 35:6, 11).

¹ sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).

¹ tn Heb “For testing (will come) and what if also a scepter, it despises, will not be?” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned in the previous verses. The text is very difficult and any rendering is uncertain.

¹ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

² tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

¹ sn The phrase “in the fire of my fury” occurs in Ezek 21:31; 22:21, 31.

² tn Or “shaking.”

¹ tn Heb “will bear.”

¹ tn Heb “from the offspring of the house of Israel.”