Ezekiel 13:18

13:18 and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands ¹  on all their wrists ²  and make headbands ³  for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! ⁴  Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

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 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ⁸  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ⁹  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 22:4

22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; ¹¹  the end of your years has come. ¹²  Therefore I will make ¹³  you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

Ezekiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ¹⁴  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 31:15

31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it ¹⁵  went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. ¹⁶  I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.

Ezekiel 37:16

37:16 “As for you, son of man, take one branch, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another branch and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the branch of Ephraim and all the house of Israel associated with him.’

Ezekiel 38:8

38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war, ¹⁷  with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people ¹⁸  were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

Ezekiel 38:13

38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the traders of Tarshish with all its young warriors ¹⁹  will say to you, “Have you come to loot? Have you assembled your armies to plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to haul away a great amount of spoils?”’

Ezekiel 39:11

39:11 “‘On that day I will assign Gog a grave in Israel. It will be the valley of those who travel east of the sea; it will block the way of the travelers. There they will bury Gog and all his horde; they will call it the valley of Hamon-Gog. ²⁰ 

Ezekiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ²¹  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

[13:18]  ¹ sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.

[13:18]  ² tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.

[13:18]  ³ tn The Hebrew term occurs in the Bible only here and in v. 21. It has also been understood as a veil or type of head covering. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:414) suggests that given the context of magical devices, the expected parallel to the magical arm bands, and the meaning of this Hebrew root (סָפַח [safakh, “to attach” or “join”]), it may refer to headbands or necklaces on which magical amulets were worn.

[13:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).

[17:9]  ⁵ 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]  ⁶ tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.

[17:9]  ⁷ tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”

[20:31]  ⁹ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ¹⁰ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ¹¹ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[22:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.

[22:4]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.

[22:4]  ¹⁵ tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.

[28:26]  ¹⁷ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.

[31:15]  ²¹ tn Or “he.”

[31:15]  ²² tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.

[38:8]  ²⁵ tn Heb “from the sword.”

[38:8]  ²⁶ tn Heb “it.”

[38:13]  ²⁹ tn Heb “young lions.”

[39:11]  ³³ tn The name means “horde of Gog.”

[39:23]  ³⁷ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.