Ezekiel 5:13

5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. ¹  Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy ²  when I have fully vented my rage against them.

Ezekiel 5:15

5:15 You will be ³  an object of scorn and taunting, ⁴  a prime example of destruction ⁵  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ⁶  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 17:21

17:21 All the choice men ⁷  among his troops will die ⁸  by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 17:24

17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.

I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.

I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Ezekiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ⁹ 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ¹⁰  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ¹¹  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Ezekiel 26:14

26:14 I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, ¹²  for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ¹³  evil men.

I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 37:14

37:14 I will place my breath ¹⁴  in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”

Matthew 24:35

24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Or “calm myself.”

² tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.

³ tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

⁴ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

⁵ tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

⁶ tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

⁷ tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).

⁸ tn Heb “fall.”

⁹ tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

¹¹ tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

¹² sn This prophecy was fulfilled by Alexander the Great in 332 b.c.

¹³ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

¹⁴ tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.

¹⁵ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.