Ezekiel 16:30

16:30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

Ezekiel 16:60

16:60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting ¹  covenant with you.

Ezekiel 23:19

23:19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:21

23:21 This is how you assessed ²  the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled ³  your nipples and squeezed ⁴  your young breasts.

Ezekiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ⁵  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ⁶  and you said, “I am a god; ⁷ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 47:6

47:6 He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen this?”

Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

¹ tn Or “eternal.”

¹ tn Or “you took note of.” The Hebrew verb פָּקַד (paqad) in the Qal implies evaluating something and then acting in light of that judgment; here the prophet depicts Judah as approving of her youthful unfaithfulness and then magnifying it at the present time. Some translations assume the verb should be repointed as a Niphal, rendering “you missed” or by extension “you longed for,” but such an extension of the Niphal “to be missing” is otherwise unattested.

² tn Heb “when (they) did,” but the verb makes no sense here and is better emended to “when (they) fondled,” a verb used in vv. 3 and 8. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.

³ tn Heb “for the sake of,” but the expression is awkward and is better emended to read “to squeeze.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.

¹ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

² tn Heb “lifted up.”

³ tn Or “I am divine.”

⁴ tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”