Ezekiel 3:11

3:11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, ¹  and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”

Ezekiel 4:14

4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat ²  has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 10:2

10:2 The Lord ³  said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork ⁴  underneath the cherubim. ⁵  Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.

Ezekiel 17:3

17:3 Say to them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: ⁶ 

“‘A great eagle ⁷  with broad wings, long feathers, ⁸ 

with full plumage which was multi-hued, ⁹ 

came to Lebanon ¹⁰  and took the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 17:12

17:12 “Say to the rebellious house of Israel: ¹¹  ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ ¹²  Say: ‘See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem ¹³  and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

Ezekiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ¹⁴  –

to place that sword ¹⁵  on the necks of the profane wicked, ¹⁶ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Ezekiel 38:13

38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors ¹⁷  will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’

Ezekiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

¹ tn Heb “to the sons of your people.”

² tn The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).

³ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).

⁵ tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum mss read plural “cherubim” while the MT is singular here, “cherub.” The plural ending was probably omitted in copying the MT due to the similar beginning of the next word.

⁴ tn The parable assumes the defection of Zedekiah to Egypt and his rejection of Babylonian lordship.

⁵ sn The great eagle symbolizes Nebuchadnezzar (17:12).

⁶ tn Hebrew has two words for wings; it is unknown whether they are fully synonymous or whether one term distinguishes a particular part of the wing such as the wing coverts (nearest the shoulder), secondaries (mid-feathers of the wing) or primaries (last and longest section of the wing).

⁷ tn This term was used in 16:10, 13, and 18 of embroidered cloth.

⁸ sn In the parable Lebanon apparently refers to Jerusalem (17:12).

⁵ tn The words “of Israel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation as a clarification of the referent.

⁶ sn The narrative description of this interpretation of the riddle is given in 2 Kgs 24:11-15.

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⁶ tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

⁷ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

⁷ tn Heb “young lions.”