Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ¹  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ²  and I will give them tender hearts, ³ 

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone ⁴  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 11:21

11:21 But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, ⁶  says the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 32:9

32:9 I will disturb ⁷  many peoples,

when I bring about your destruction among the nations,

among countries you do not know.

Ezekiel 2:4

2:4 The people ⁸  to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, ⁹  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Ezekiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! ¹¹  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 21:15

21:15 So hearts melt with fear and many stumble.

At all their gates I have stationed the sword for slaughter.

Ah! It is made to flash, it is drawn for slaughter!

Ezekiel 3:7

3:7 But the house of Israel is unwilling to listen to you, ¹²  because they are not willing to listen to me, ¹³  for the whole house of Israel is hard-headed and hard-hearted. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 44:7

44:7 When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate ¹⁵  it – even my house – when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You ¹⁶  have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ¹⁷ 

Ezekiel 21:7

21:7 When they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you will reply, ‘Because of the report that has come. Every heart will melt with fear and every hand will be limp; everyone ¹⁸  will faint and every knee will be wet with urine.’ ¹⁹  Pay attention – it is coming and it will happen, declares the sovereign Lord.”

[11:19]  ¹ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

[11:19]  ² tn Heb “their flesh.”

[11:19]  ³ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

[36:26]  ⁴ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

[36:26]  ⁵ sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

[11:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”

[32:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I will provoke the heart of.”

[2:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.

[2:4]  ¹⁴ tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.

[2:4]  ¹⁵ tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).

[18:31]  ¹⁶ sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

[3:7]  ¹⁹ sn Moses (Exod 3:19) and Isaiah (Isa 6:9-10) were also told that their messages would not be received.

[3:7]  ²⁰ sn A similar description of Israel’s disobedience is given in 1 Sam 8:7.

[3:7]  ²¹ tn Heb “hard of forehead and stiff of heart.”

[44:7]  ²² tn Heb “to desecrate.”

[44:7]  ²³ tc The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions read “you.” The Masoretic text reads “they.”

[44:9]  ²⁵ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

[21:7]  ²⁸ tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”

[21:7]  ²⁹ sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.