Ezekiel 3:14

3:14 A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, ¹  my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully ²  on me.

Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ³  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ⁴  and I will give them tender hearts, ⁵ 

Ezekiel 11:24

11:24 Then a wind ⁶  lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, ⁷  in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.

Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

Ezekiel 13:11

13:11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones ⁸  will fall and a violent wind will break out. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! ¹⁰  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 19:12

19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.

The east wind ¹¹  dried up its fruit;

its strong branches broke off and withered –

a fire consumed them.

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone ¹²  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 37:8

37:8 As I watched, I saw ¹⁴  tendons on them, then muscles appeared, ¹⁵  and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath ¹⁶  in them.

¹ tn The traditional interpretation is that Ezekiel embarked on his mission with bitterness and anger, either reflecting God’s attitude toward the sinful people or his own feelings about having to carry out such an unpleasant task. L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:13) takes “bitterly” as a misplaced marginal note and understands the following word, normally translated “anger,” in the sense of fervor or passion. He translates, “I was passionately moved” (p. 4). Another option is to take the word translated “bitterly” as a verb meaning “strengthened” (attested in Ugaritic). See G. R. Driver, Canaanite Myths and Legends, 152.

² tn Heb “the hand of the Lord was on me heavily.” The “hand of the Lord” is a metaphor for his power or influence; the modifier conveys intensity.

³ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

⁴ tn Heb “their flesh.”

⁵ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

⁵ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁶ tn Heb “to Chaldea.”

⁷ tn Heb “and you, O hailstones.”

⁸ sn A violent wind will break out. God’s judgments are frequently described in storm imagery (Pss 18:7-15; 77:17-18; 83:15; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Jer 23:19; 30:23).

⁹ sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

¹¹ sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.

¹³ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

¹⁴ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

¹⁵ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

¹⁶ tn Heb “came up.”

¹⁷ tn Or “spirit.”