Ezekiel 3:9

3:9 I have made your forehead harder than flint – like diamond! ¹  Do not fear them or be terrified of the looks they give you, ²  for they are a rebellious house.”

Ezekiel 4:5

4:5 I have determined that the number of the years of their iniquity are to be the number of days ³  for you – 390 days. ⁴  So bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 4:8

4:8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 4:15

4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

Ezekiel 16:17

16:17 You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution ⁷  with them.

Ezekiel 16:19

16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 20:12

20:12 I also gave them my Sabbaths ⁸  as a reminder of our relationship, ⁹  so that they would know that I, the Lord, sanctify them. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 21:15

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 29:20

29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his compensation for attacking Tyre ¹¹ , because they did it for me, declares the sovereign Lord.

¹ tn The Hebrew term translated “diamond” is parallel to “iron” in Jer 17:1. The Hebrew uses two terms which are both translated at times as “flint,” but here one is clearly harder than the other. The translation “diamond” attempts to reflect this distinction in English.

² tn Heb “of their faces.”

³ tn Heb “I have assigned for you that the years of their iniquity be the number of days.” Num 14:33-34 is an example of the reverse, where the days were converted into years, the number of days spying out the land becoming the number of years of the wilderness wanderings.

⁴ tc The LXX reads “190 days.”

⁵ tn Or “When you have carried the iniquity of the house of Israel,” and continuing on to the next verse.

⁵ sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.

⁷ tn Or perhaps “and worshiped them,” if the word “prostitution” is understood in a figurative rather than a literal sense (cf. CEV, NLT).

⁹ sn Ezekiel’s contemporary, Jeremiah, also stressed the importance of obedience to the Sabbath law (Jer 17).

¹⁰ tn Heb “to become a sign between me and them.”

¹¹ tn Or “set them apart.” The last phrase of verse 12 appears to be a citation of Exod 31:13.

¹¹ tn Heb “for which he worked,” referring to the assault on Tyre (v. 18).