Ezekiel 2:4

2:4 The people ¹  to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, ²  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ ³ 

Ezekiel 16:24-25

16:24 you built yourself a chamber ⁴  and put up a pavilion ⁵  in every public square. 16:25 At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced ⁶  your beauty when you spread ⁷  your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity.

Ezekiel 24:7

24:7 For her blood was in it;

she poured it on an exposed rock;

she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

Zephaniah 3:5

3:5 The just Lord resides ⁸  within her;

he commits no unjust acts. ⁹ 

Every morning he reveals ¹⁰  his justice.

At dawn he appears without fail. ¹¹ 

Yet the unjust know no shame.

Philippians 3:19

3:19 Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things. ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.

² tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.

³ tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).

⁴ tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.

⁵ tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.

⁷ tn Heb “treated as if abominable,” i.e., repudiated.

⁸ tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew root is found in Prov 13:3 in reference to the talkative person who habitually “opens wide” his lips.

¹⁰ tn The word “resides” is supplied for clarification.

¹¹ tn Or “he does no injustice.”

¹² tn Heb “gives”; or “dispenses.”

¹³ tn Heb “at the light he is not missing.” Note that NASB (which capitalizes pronouns referring to Deity) has divided the lines differently: “Every morning He brings His justice to light; // He does not fail.”

¹³ tn Grk “whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly and glory is their shame, these who think of earthly things.”