Ezekiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ¹  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ²  because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Ezekiel 36:25

36:25 I will sprinkle you with pure water ³  and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Ezekiel 36:29

36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.

Ezekiel 36:31

36:31 Then you will remember your evil behavior ⁴  and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.

Ezekiel 43:7-8

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne ⁵  and the place for the soles of my feet, ⁶  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. ⁷  43:8 When they placed their threshold by my threshold and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only the wall between me and them, they profaned my holy name by the abominable deeds they committed. So I consumed them in my anger.

Isaiah 2:18

2:18 The worthless idols will be completely eliminated. ⁸ 

Hosea 14:8

14:8 O Ephraim, I do not want to have anything to do ⁹  with idols anymore!

I will answer him and care for him.

I am like ¹⁰  a luxuriant cypress tree; ¹¹ 

your fruitfulness comes from me! ¹² 

Zechariah 13:1-2

The Refinement of Judah

13:1 “In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty ¹³  of David and the people of Jerusalem ¹⁴  to cleanse them from sin and impurity. ¹⁵  13:2 And also on that day,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will remove ¹⁶  the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

Zechariah 14:21

14:21 Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite ¹⁷  in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

¹ tn Heb “ways.”

² tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

³ sn The Lord here uses a metaphor from the realm of ritual purification. For the use of water in ritual cleansing, see Exod 30:19-20; Lev 14:51; Num 19:18; Heb 10:22.

⁴ tn Heb “ways.”

⁵ sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

⁶ sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

⁷ tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.

⁸ tc The verb “pass away” is singular in the Hebrew text, despite the plural subject (“worthless idols”) that precedes. The verb should be emended to a plural; the final vav (ו) has been accidentally omitted by haplography (note the vav at the beginning of the immediately following form).

⁹ tn The Hebrew expression מַה־לִּי עוֹד (mah-li ’od) is a formula of repudiation/emphatic denial that God has anything in common with idols: “I want to have nothing to do with […] any more!” Cf., e.g., Judg 11:12; 2 Sam 16:10; 19:23; 1 Kgs 17:18; 2 Kgs 3:13; 2 Chr 35:21; Jer 2:18; Ps 50:16; BDB 553 s.v. מָה 1.d.(c).

¹⁰ tn The term “like” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity, as in the majority of English versions (including KJV).

¹¹ tn Cf. KJV “a green fir tree”; NIV, NCV “a green pine tree”; NRSV “an evergreen cypress.”

¹² tn Heb “your fruit is found in me”; NRSV “your faithfulness comes from me.”

¹³ tn Heb “house” (so NIV, NRSV), referring to dynastic descendants.

¹⁴ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁵ tn Heb “for sin and for impurity.” The purpose implied here has been stated explicitly in the translation for clarity.

¹⁶ tn Heb “cut off” (so NRSV); NAB “destroy”; NIV “banish.”

¹⁷ tn Or “merchant”; “trader” (because Canaanites, especially Phoenicians, were merchants and traders; cf. BDB 489 s.v. I and II כְּנַעֲנִי). English versions have rendered the term as “Canaanite” (KJV, NKJV, NASB, NIV), “trader” (RSV, NEB), “traders” (NRSV, NLT), or “merchant” (NAB), although frequently a note is given explaining the other option. Cf. also John 2:16.