Ezekiel 7:25

7:25 Terror ¹  is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Ezekiel 34:6

34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

Ezekiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. ² 

Ezekiel 13:10

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ³  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ⁴  they coat it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 13:15-16

13:15 I will vent my rage against the wall, and against those who coated it with whitewash. Then I will say to you, “The wall is no more and those who whitewashed it are no more – 13:16 those prophets of Israel who would prophesy about Jerusalem ⁵  and would see visions of peace for it, when there was no peace,” declares the sovereign Lord.’

Ezekiel 34:28

34:28 They will no longer be prey for the nations and the wild beasts will not devour them. They will live securely and no one will make them afraid.

Ezekiel 39:26

39:26 They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.

Ezekiel 42:6

42:6 For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers ⁶  were set back from the ground more than the lower and upper ones.

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ⁷  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ⁸ 

¹ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. It is interpreted based on a Syriac cognate meaning “to bristle or stiffen (in terror).”

² tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

³ tn Or “peace.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.

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⁵ tn The phrase “upper chambers” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied from the context.

⁶ tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

⁷ sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.