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 3:22
Isolated and Silenced
3:22 The hand 4 of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, 5 and I will speak with you there.”
Ezekiel 16:57
16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram
6 and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.
Ezekiel 16:59
16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.
Ezekiel 22:14
22:14 Can your heart endure,
7 or can your hands be strong when I deal with you?
8 I, the
Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!
Ezekiel 23:29
23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for,
9 and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.
10
Ezekiel 38:9
38:9 You will advance;
11 you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.
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 Or “power.”
5 sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.
7 tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”
10 tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.
11 tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”
13 tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.
14 tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”
16 tn Heb “go up.”