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 16:38

16:38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. ³  I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 16:42

16:42 I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.

Ezekiel 24:8

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Ezekiel 30:15

30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ⁵ 

the stronghold of Egypt;

I will cut off ⁶  the hordes of Thebes.

Ezekiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them ⁷  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. ⁸ 

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 tn Heb “and I will judge you (with) the judgments of adulteresses and of those who shed blood.”

⁴ tn Heb “and I will give you the blood of rage and zeal.”

⁵ tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.

⁶ tn Or “kill.”

⁷ sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

⁸ sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.