Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare ¹  you.

Ezekiel 14:11

14:11 so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, ²  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 16:43

16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, ³  declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

Ezekiel 20:40

20:40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them ⁴  in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.

Ezekiel 21:12

21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,

for it is wielded against my people;

against all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.

Therefore, strike your thigh. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 21:24

21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up ⁶  your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ⁸  when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”

Ezekiel 31:12

31:12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land ⁹  have departed ¹⁰  from its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 32:25

32:25 Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave. ¹¹  All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ¹²  watch closely and listen carefully to ¹³  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹⁴  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 45:1

The Lord’s Portion of the Land

45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment ¹⁵  to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be eight and a quarter miles ¹⁶  and the width three and one-third miles. ¹⁷  This entire area will be holy. ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 45:17

45:17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.

¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

² sn I will be their God. See Exod 6:7; Lev 26:12; Jer 7:23; 11:4.

³ tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”

⁴ tn Heb “all of it.”

⁵ sn This physical action was part of an expression of grief. Cp. Jer. 31:19.

⁶ tn Heb “caused to be remembered.”

⁷ tn Heb “Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt when your transgressions are uncovered so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds – because you are remembered, by the hand you will be seized.”

⁷ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.

⁸ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁹ tn Heb “gone down.”

⁹ tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

¹⁰ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

¹¹ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

¹² tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.

¹¹ tn Heb “a contribution.”

¹² tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers). The measuring units here are the Hebrew “long” cubit, consisting of a cubit (about 18 inches or 45 cm) and a handbreadth (about 3 inches or 7.5 cm), for a total of 21 inches (52.5 cm). Because modern readers are not familiar with the cubit as a unit of measurement, and due to the additional complication of the “long” cubit as opposed to the regular cubit, all measurements have been converted to American standard miles (one mile = 5,280 feet), with the Hebrew measurements and the metric equivalents given in the notes.

¹³ tc The LXX reads “twenty thousand cubits.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “holy it is in all its territory round about.”