Ezekiel 3:7

3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹  because they are not willing to listen to me, ²  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ³ 

Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ⁴  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ⁵  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ⁶  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 27:27

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ⁷  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Ezekiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, ⁸  and they sit in front of you as ⁹  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey ¹⁰  them. For they talk lustfully, ¹¹  and their heart is set on ¹²  their own advantage. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 40:4

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ¹⁴  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ¹⁵  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹⁶  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹⁷  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹⁸ 

¹ sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.

² sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.

³ tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

⁴ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

⁵ tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

⁶ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

⁷ tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

¹⁰ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

¹¹ tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

¹² tn Heb “do.”

¹³ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “goes after.”

¹⁵ tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

¹³ tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “to desecrate.”

¹⁷ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

¹⁹ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.