Ezekiel 6:6

6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ¹ 

Ezekiel 11:20

11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ² 

Ezekiel 19:9

19:9 They put him in a collar with hooks; ³ 

they brought him to the king of Babylon;

they brought him to prison ⁴ 

so that his voice would not be heard

any longer on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 20:9

20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, ⁵  so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, ⁶  before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 20:22

20:22 But I refrained from doing so, ⁸  and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Ezekiel 20:44

20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 21:15

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ⁹  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ¹⁰  they commit obscene acts among you. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ¹²  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ¹³  declares the sovereign Lord. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 24:11

24:11 Set the empty pot on the coals, ¹⁵ 

until it becomes hot and its copper glows,

until its uncleanness melts within it and its rot ¹⁶  is consumed.

Ezekiel 25:10

25:10 I will hand it over, ¹⁷  along with the Ammonites, ¹⁸  to the tribes ¹⁹  of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

Ezekiel 36:30

36:30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.

Ezekiel 46:18

46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

² sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).

³ tn Or “They put him in a neck stock with hooks.” The noun סּוּגַר (sugar), translated “collar,” occurs only here in the Bible. L. C. Allen and D. I. Block point out a Babylonian cognate that refers to a device for transporting prisoners of war that held them by their necks (D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:597, n. 35; L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:284). Based on the Hebrew root, the traditional rendering had been “cage” (cf. ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁴ tc The term in the MT occurs only here and in Eccl 9:12 where it refers to a net for catching fish. The LXX translates this as “prison,” which assumes a confusion of dalet and resh took place in the MT.

⁴ tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”

⁵ tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”

⁶ tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.

⁵ tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.

⁶ tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

⁷ tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

⁸ sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

⁷ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

⁸ sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

⁹ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

⁸ tn Heb “set it upon its coals, empty.”

⁹ tn Or “rust” (so also in v. 12).

⁹ tn Heb “I will give it for a possession.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).

¹¹ tn Heb “the sons.”