Ezekiel 1:13

1:13 In the middle ¹  of the living beings was something like ²  burning coals of fire ³  or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

Ezekiel 1:24

1:24 When they moved, I heard the sound of their wings – it was like the sound of rushing waters, or the voice of the Almighty, ⁴  or the tumult ⁵  of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.

Ezekiel 3:1

3:1 He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you see in front of you ⁶  – eat this scroll – and then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

Ezekiel 10:22

10:22 As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

Ezekiel 11:12

11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

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. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 13:3

13:3 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit but have seen nothing!

Ezekiel 18:9

18:9 and follows my statutes and observes my regulations by carrying them out. ⁸  That man ⁹  is righteous; he will certainly live, ¹⁰  declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ¹¹  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ¹²  he will surely live.

Ezekiel 20:18

20:18 “‘But I said to their children ¹³  in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, ¹⁴  nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 28:14

28:14 I placed you there with an anointed ¹⁵  guardian ¹⁶  cherub; ¹⁷ 

you were on the holy mountain of God;

you walked about amidst fiery stones.

Ezekiel 30:18

30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark ¹⁸ 

when I break the yoke of Egypt there.

Her confident pride will cease within her;

a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 31:4

31:4 The water made it grow;

underground springs made it grow tall.

Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,

while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field. ¹⁹ 

Ezekiel 33:15

33:15 He ²⁰  returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, ²¹  committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.

Ezekiel 36:12

36:12 I will lead people, my people Israel, across you; they will possess you and you will become their inheritance. No longer will you bereave them of their children.

Ezekiel 37:24

37:24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow ²²  my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. ²³ 

Ezekiel 40:24

40:24 Then he led me toward the south. I saw ²⁴  a gate on the south. He measured its jambs and its porches; they had the same dimensions as the others.

[1:13]  ¹ tc The MT reads “and the form of the creatures” (וּדְמוּת הַחַיּוֹת, udÿmut hakhayyot). The LXX reads “and in the midst of the creatures,” suggesting an underlying Hebrew text of וּמִתּוֹךְ הַחַיּוֹת (umittokh hakhayyot). The subsequent description of something moving among the creatures supports the LXX.

[1:13]  ² tc The MT reads “and the form of the creatures – their appearance was like burning coals of fire.” The LXX reads “in the midst of the creatures was a sight like burning coals of fire.” The MT may have adjusted “appearance” to “their appearance” to fit their reading of the beginning of the verse (see the tc note on “in the middle”). See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.

[1:13]  ³ sn Burning coals of fire are also a part of David’s poetic description of God’s appearance (see 2 Sam 22:9, 13; Ps 18:8).

[1:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “Shaddai” (probably meaning “one of the mountain”), a title that depicts God as the sovereign ruler of the world who dispenses justice. The Old Greek translation omitted the phrase “voice of the Almighty.”

[1:24]  ⁵ tn The only other occurrence of the Hebrew word translated “tumult” is in Jer 11:16. It indicates a noise like that of the turmoil of a military camp or the sound of an army on the march.

[3:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “eat what you find.”

[11:20]  ¹⁰ 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).

[18:9]  ¹³ tc The MT reads לַעֲשׂוֹת אֱמֶת (la’asot ’emet, “to do with integrity”), while the LXX reads “to do them,” presupposing לַעֲשׂוֹת אֹתָם (la’asot ’otam). The ם (mem) and ת (tav) have been reversed in the MT. The LXX refelcts the original, supported by similar phrasing in Ezekiel 11:20; 20:19.

[18:9]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “he.”

[18:9]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “living, he will live.” The infinitive absolute precedes the finite verb for emphasis.

[18:17]  ¹⁶ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

[18:17]  ¹⁷ tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[20:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.

[20:18]  ²⁰ tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.

[28:14]  ²² tn Or “winged”; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[28:14]  ²³ tn The meaning of this phrase in Hebrew is uncertain. The word translated here “guards” occurs in Exod 25:20 in reference to the cherubim “covering” the ark.

[28:14]  ²⁴ tn Heb “you (were) an anointed cherub that covers and I placed you.” In the Hebrew text the ruler of Tyre is equated with a cherub, and the verb “I placed you” is taken with what follows (“on the holy mountain of God”). However, this reading is problematic. The pronoun “you” at the beginning of verse 14 is feminine singular in the Hebrew text; elsewhere in this passage the ruler of Tyre is addressed with masculine singular forms. It is possible that the pronoun is a rare (see Deut 5:24; Num 11:15) or defectively written (see 1 Sam 24:19; Neh 9:6; Job 1:10; Ps 6:3; Eccl 7:22) masculine form, but it is more likely that the form should be repointed as the preposition “with” (see the LXX). In this case the ruler of Tyre is compared to the first man, not to a cherub. If this emendation is accepted, then the verb “I placed you” belongs with what precedes and concludes the first sentence in the verse. It is noteworthy that the verbs in the second and third lines of the verse also appear at the end of the sentence in the Hebrew text. The presence of a conjunction at the beginning of “I placed you” is problematic for the proposal, but it may reflect a later misunderstanding of the syntax of the verse. For a defense of the proposed emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[30:18]  ²⁵ sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

[31:4]  ²⁸ tn Heb “Waters made it grow; the deep made it grow tall. It (the deep) was flowing with its rivers around the place it (the tree) was planted, it (the deep) sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.”

[33:15]  ³¹ tn Heb “the wicked one.”

[33:15]  ³² tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”

[37:24]  ³⁴ tn Heb “walk [in].”

[37:24]  ³⁵ tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”

[40:24]  ³⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.