Ezekiel 1:22

1:22 Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, ¹  glittering awesomely like ice, ²  stretched out over their heads.

Ezekiel 7:18

7:18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. ³ 

Ezekiel 27:30

27:30 They will lament loudly ⁴  over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; ⁵ 

Ezekiel 44:20

44:20 “‘They must not shave their heads ⁶  nor let their hair grow long; ⁷  they must only trim their heads.

Ezekiel 32:27

32:27 They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, ⁸  who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, ⁹  when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

[1:22]  ¹ tn Or “like a dome” (NCV, NRSV, TEV).

[1:22]  ² tn Or “like crystal” (NRSV, NLT).

[7:18]  ³ tn Heb “baldness will be on their heads.”

[27:30]  ⁵ tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

[27:30]  ⁶ tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.

[44:20]  ⁷ sn The shaving of the head was associated with mourning (Ezek 7:18).

[44:20]  ⁸ sn Letting the hair grow was associated with the taking of a vow (Num 6:5; Acts 21:23-26).

[32:27]  ⁹ tc Heb “of the uncircumcised.” The LXX reads, probably correctly, “from of old” rather than “of the uncircumcised.” The phrases are very similar in spelling. The warriors of Meshech-Tubal are described as uncircumcised, so it would be odd for them to not be buried with the uncircumcised. Verse 28 specifically says that they would lie with the uncircumcised.

[32:27]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and their iniquities were over their bones.” The meaning of this statement is unclear; in light of the parallelism (see “swords”) it is preferable to emend “their iniquities” to “their swords.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:135.