4:9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, 1 put them in a single container, and make food 2 from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days 3 – you will eat it.
21:29 while seeing false visions for you
and reading lying omens for you 6 –
to place that sword 7 on the necks of the profane wicked, 8
whose day has come,
the time of final punishment.
1 sn Wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt. All these foods were common in Mesopotamia where Ezekiel was exiled.
2 tn Heb “bread.”
3 tc The LXX reads “190 days.”
4 tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”
5 tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”
7 tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.
8 tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.