Ezekiel 7:5

7:5 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: A disaster ¹  – a one-of-a-kind ²  disaster – is coming!

Ezekiel 14:15

14:15 “Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

Ezekiel 34:5

34:5 They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast. ³ 

Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ⁴  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ⁵  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 34:23

34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. ⁶  He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 34:25

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely ⁷  in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 38:10

38:10 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, ⁹  and you will devise an evil plan.

Ezekiel 14:21

14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem ¹⁰  to kill both people and animals!

Ezekiel 34:12

34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day. ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 34:8

34:8 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

¹ tn The Hebrew term often refers to moral evil (see Ezek 6:10; 14:22), but in many contexts it refers to calamity or disaster, sometimes as punishment for evil behavior.

² tc So most Hebrew mss; many Hebrew mss read “disaster after disaster” (cf. NAB, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

³ tn As a case of dittography, the MT repeats “and they were scattered” at the end of the verse.

⁵ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

⁶ tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

⁷ sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).

⁹ tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).

¹⁰ sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).

¹¹ tn Heb “words will go up upon your heart.”

¹³ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

¹⁵ sn The imagery may reflect the overthrow of the Israelites by the Babylonians in 587/6 b.c.