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. ¹ 

Ezekiel 20:29

20:29 So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?’” (So it is called “High Place” ²  to this day.)

Ezekiel 21:27

21:27 A total ruin I will make it! ³ 

It will come to an end

when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’ ⁴ 

Ezekiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. ⁵ 

I tried to cleanse you, ⁶  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness ⁷ 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Ezekiel 34:21

34:21 Because you push with your side and your shoulder, and thrust your horns at all the weak sheep until you scatter them abroad, ⁸ 

Ezekiel 39:15

39:15 When the scouts survey ⁹  the land and see a human bone, they will place a sign by it, until those assigned to burial duty have buried it ¹⁰  in the valley of Hamon-Gog.

Ezekiel 41:16

41:16 as well as the thresholds, narrow windows and galleries all around on three sides facing the threshold were paneled with wood all around, from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

Ezekiel 46:17

46:17 But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will be his until the year of liberty; ¹¹  then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

Ezekiel 47:19

47:19 On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, the river, ¹²  to the Great Sea. This is the south side.

¹ sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.

² tn The Hebrew word (“Bamah”) means “high place.”

³ tn Heb “A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it.” The threefold repetition of the noun “ruin” is for emphasis and draws attention to the degree of ruin that would take place. See IBHS 233 §12.5a and GKC 431-32 §133.k. The pronominal suffix (translated “it”) on the verb “make” is feminine in Hebrew. The probable antecedent is the “turban/crown” (both nouns are feminine in form) mentioned in verse 26. The point is that the king’s royal splendor would be completely devastated as judgment overtook his realm and brought his reign to a violent end.

⁴ tn Heb “Also this, he was not, until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it.” The Hebrew text, as it stands, is grammatically difficult. The pronoun “this” is feminine, while the following negated verb (“was not”) is masculine. Some emend the verb to a feminine form (see BHS). In this case the statement refers to the destiny of the king’s turban/crown (symbolizing his reign). See the previous note. The preposition translated “when” normally means “until,” but here it seems to refer to the period during which the preceding situation is realized, rather than its termination point. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:19, 21. The second part of the statement, though awkward, probably refers to the arrival of the Babylonian king, to whom the Lord had assigned the task of judgment (see 23:24). Or the verse may read “A total ruin I will make, even this. It will not be until the one comes to whom is (the task of) judgment and I have assigned it.”

⁴ tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

⁵ tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

⁶ tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”

⁵ tn Heb “outside.”

⁶ tn Heb “as the scouts scout.”

⁷ tn That is, the aforementioned bone.

⁷ sn That is, the year of Jubilee (Lev 25:8-15).

⁸ tn Or “valley.” The syntax is difficult. Some translate “to the river,” others “from the river”; in either case the preposition is supplied for the sake of English.