Ezekiel 1:14

1:14 The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning. ¹ 

Ezekiel 5:2

5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ²  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ³  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Ezekiel 17:2

17:2 “Son of man, offer a riddle, ⁴  and tell a parable to the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 17:9

17:9 “‘Say to them: This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Will it prosper?

Will he not rip out its roots

and cause its fruit to rot ⁵  and wither?

All its foliage ⁶  will wither.

No strong arm or large army

will be needed to pull it out by its roots. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 23:26

23:26 They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

Ezekiel 37:20

37:20 The sticks you write on will be in your hand in front of them.

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.”

Ezekiel 47:1

Water from the Temple

47:1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple. I noticed ¹⁰  that water was flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the right side of the temple, from south of the altar.

[1:14]  ¹ tc The LXX omits v. 14 and may well be correct. The verse may be a later explanatory gloss of the end of v. 13 which was copied into the main text. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:46.

[10:19]  ² tn Heb “lifted.”

[10:19]  ³ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

[17:2]  ³ sn The verb occurs elsewhere in the OT only in Judg 14:12-19, where Samson supplies a riddle.

[17:9]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT and appears to have the meaning of “strip off.” In application to fruit the meaning may be “cause to rot.”

[17:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.

[17:9]  ⁶ tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”

[38:12]  ⁵ tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”

[38:12]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”

[47:1]  ⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.