Ezekiel 16:5

16:5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; ¹  you were thrown out into the open field ²  because you were detested on the day you were born.

Ezekiel 17:24

17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.

I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.

I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ³ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

Ezekiel 31:15

31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it ⁴  went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. ⁵  I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Ezekiel 33:27

33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die ⁶  by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Ezekiel 34:27

34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Ezekiel 38:20

38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake ⁷  at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs ⁸  will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 39:10

39:10 They will not need to take ⁹  wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, ¹⁰  declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10.

² sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10.

³ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

⁵ tn Or “he.”

⁶ tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.

⁷ tn Heb “fall.”

⁹ tn Or “tremble.”

¹⁰ tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.

¹¹ tn Heb “they will not carry.”

¹² tn Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”