Ezekiel 8:1

A Desecrated Temple

8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, ¹  as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand ²  of the sovereign Lord seized me. ³ 

Ezekiel 12:19

12:19 Then say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in fright, for their land will be stripped bare of all it contains because of the violence of all who live in it.

Ezekiel 26:20

26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, ⁴  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ⁵  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ⁶  in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ⁷  when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”

Ezekiel 38:12

38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack ⁸  the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center ⁹  of the earth.”

¹ tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”

² tn Or “power.”

³ tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.

⁴ tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”

⁵ tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).

⁶ tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”

⁷ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.

¹⁰ tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”

¹¹ tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”