Ezekiel 5:15

5:15 You will be ¹  an object of scorn and taunting, ²  a prime example of destruction ³  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ⁴  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 26:5

26:5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,

Ezekiel 29:9

29:9 The land of Egypt will become a desolate ruin. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Because he said, “The Nile is mine and I made it,”

Ezekiel 30:4

30:4 A sword will come against Egypt

and panic will overtake Ethiopia

when the slain fall in Egypt

and they carry away her wealth

and dismantle her foundations.

Ezekiel 30:9

30:9 On that day messengers will go out from me in ships to frighten overly confident Ethiopia; panic will overtake them on the day of Egypt’s doom; ⁵  for beware – it is coming!

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; ⁶  then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance will only remain with his sons.

Ezekiel 48:15

48:15 “The remainder, one and two-thirds miles ⁷  in width and eight and a quarter miles ⁸  in length, will be for common use by the city, for houses and for open space. The city will be in the middle of it;

¹ 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.

² tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

³ 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).

⁴ tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

⁵ tn Heb “in the day of Egypt.” The word “doom” has been added in the translation to clarify the nature of this day.

⁹ sn That is, the year of Jubilee (Lev 25:8-15).

¹³ tn Heb “five thousand cubits” (i.e., 2.625 kilometers).

¹⁴ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).