Ezekiel 16:46

16:46 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north ¹  of you with her daughters, and your younger sister, who lived south ²  of you, was Sodom ³  with her daughters.

Ezekiel 21:3-4

21:3 and say to them, ⁴  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ⁵  I am against you. ⁶  I will draw my sword ⁷  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ⁸  21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ⁹  from the south ¹⁰  to the north.

Ezekiel 23:27

23:27 So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt. ¹¹  You will not seek their help ¹²  or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 24:16

24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, ¹³  but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

Ezekiel 29:8

29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill ¹⁴  every person and every animal.

Ezekiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ¹⁵  all the birds of the sky to settle ¹⁶  on you,

and I will permit ¹⁷  all the wild animals ¹⁸  to gorge themselves on you.

¹ tn Heb “left.”

² tn Heb “right.”

³ sn Sodom was the epitome of evil (Deut 29:23; 32:32; Isa 1:9-10; 3:9; Jer 23:14; Lam 4:6; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24; Jude 7).

⁴ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁶ tn 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.

⁷ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

⁸ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

⁷ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

⁸ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

¹⁰ tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”

¹¹ tn Heb “lift your eyes to them.”

¹³ tn Heb “a strike.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “I will cut off from you.”

¹⁹ tn Or “cause.”

²⁰ tn Heb “live.”

²¹ tn Or “cause.”

²² tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.