Ezekiel 3:26

3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove ¹  them, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ²  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ³  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ⁴  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ⁵  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “you will not be to them a reprover.” In Isa 29:21 and Amos 5:10 “a reprover” issued rebuke at the city gate.

² tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

³ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

⁶ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).