4:1 “And you, son of man, take a brick 1 and set it in front of you. Inscribe 2 a city on it – Jerusalem.
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.”
27:5 They crafted 9 all your planks out of fir trees from Senir; 10
they took a cedar from Lebanon to make your mast.
27:7 Fine linen from Egypt, woven with patterns, was used for your sail
to serve as your banner;
blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah 11 was used for your deck’s awning.
35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword 12 at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.
1 sn Ancient Near Eastern bricks were 10 to 24 inches long and 6 to 13 1/2 inches wide.
2 tn Or perhaps “draw.”
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 tn Heb “name.”
6 sn The description of the nation Israel in vv. 10-14 recalls the splendor of the nation’s golden age under King Solomon.
7 tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”
9 tn Heb “built.”
10 tn Perhaps the hull or deck. The term is dual, so perhaps it refers to a double-decked ship.
11 sn This is probably a reference to Cyprus.
13 tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.