Ezekiel 16:13

16:13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained the position of royalty.

Ezekiel 37:2

37:2 He made me walk all around among them. ¹  I realized ²  there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

Ezekiel 37:10

37:10 So I prophesied as I was commanded, and the breath came into them; they lived and stood on their feet, an extremely great army.

Ezekiel 27:25

27:25 The ships of Tarshish ³  were the transports for your merchandise.

“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 47:7

47:7 When I had returned, I noticed ⁴  a vast number of trees on the banks of the river, on both sides.

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, ⁵  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ⁶ 

Ezekiel 40:2

40:2 By means of divine visions ⁷  he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain, ⁸  and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.

Ezekiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ⁹  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 47:9-10

47:9 Every living creature which swarms where the river ¹¹  flows will live; there will be many fish, for these waters flow there. It will become fresh ¹²  and everything will live where the river flows. 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. ¹³ 

¹ tn Heb “and he made me pass over them, around, around.”

² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and is here translated as “I realized” because it results from Ezekiel’s recognition of the situation around him. In Hebrew, the exclamation is repeated in the following sentence.

¹ tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.

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

¹ tn 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.”

² sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

¹ tn The expression introduces the three major visions of Ezekiel (1:1; 8:3; 40:2).

² tn The reference to a very high mountain is harmonious with Isa 2:2.

¹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

² tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

¹ tn Heb “two rivers,” perhaps under the influence of Zech 14:8. The translation follows the LXX and other ancient versions in reading the singular, which is demanded by the context (see vv. 5-7, 9b, 12).

² tn Heb “will be healed.”

¹ sn The Great Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea (also in vv. 15, 19, 20).