Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ¹  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ²  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ³  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 16:36

16:36 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because your lust ⁴  was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

Ezekiel 18:6

18:6 does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains ⁵  or pray to the idols ⁶  of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife, does not have sexual relations with a ⁷  woman during her period,

Ezekiel 20:8

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ⁸  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ⁹  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹⁰  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ¹¹  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ¹² 

Ezekiel 22:4

22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; ¹³  the end of your years has come. ¹⁴  Therefore I will make ¹⁵  you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

Ezekiel 30:13

30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

I will destroy the idols,

and put an end to the gods of Memphis.

There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;

so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ¹⁷  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Ezekiel 44:12

44:12 Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle ¹⁸  to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow ¹⁹  concerning them, declares the sovereign Lord, that they will be responsible ²⁰  for their sin.

¹ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

² tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

³ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

⁷ tn Heb, “on the mountains he does not eat.” The mountains are often mentioned as the place where idolatrous sacrifices were eaten (Ezek 20:28; 22:9; 34:6).

⁸ tn Heb, “does not lift up his eyes.” This refers to looking to idols for help.

⁹ tn Heb, “does not draw near to.” “Draw near” is a euphemism for sexual intercourse (Lev 18:14; Deut 22:14; Isa 8:3).

¹⁰ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

¹¹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

¹³ tn Or “gifts.”

¹⁴ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

¹⁵ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.

¹⁷ tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.

¹⁸ tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.

¹⁹ tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”

²² tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.

²⁵ tn Heb “a stumbling block of iniquity.” This is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (cf. also Ezek 7:19; 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30).

²⁶ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

²⁷ tn Heb “will bear.”