Ezekiel 16:26

16:26 You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, ¹  multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

Ezekiel 19:4

19:4 The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit.

They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. ² 

Ezekiel 23:3

23:3 They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers ³  fondled their virgin nipples there.

Ezekiel 23:19

23:19 Yet she increased her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 23:21

23:21 This is how you assessed ⁴  the obscene conduct of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled ⁵  your nipples and squeezed ⁶  your young breasts.

Ezekiel 30:8

30:8 They will know that I am the Lord

when I ignite a fire in Egypt

and all her allies are defeated. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 30:10

30:10 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt,

by the hand of King Nebuchadrezzar ⁸  of Babylon.

Ezekiel 30:15-16

30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, ⁹ 

the stronghold of Egypt;

I will cut off ¹⁰  the hordes of Thebes.

30:16 I will ignite a fire in Egypt;

Syene ¹¹  will writhe in agony,

Thebes will be broken down,

and Memphis will face enemies every day.

Ezekiel 30:26

30:26 I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

[16:26]  ¹ tn Heb “your neighbors, large of flesh.” The word “flesh” is used here of the genitals. It may simply refer to the size of their genitals in general, or, as the translation suggests, depicts them as sexually aroused.

[19:4]  ² sn The description applies to king Jehoahaz (2 Kgs 23:31-34; Jer 22:10-12).

[23:3]  ³ tn In the Hebrew text the subject is left unstated and must be supplied from the context.

[23:21]  ⁴ tn Or “you took note of.” The Hebrew verb פָּקַד (paqad) in the Qal implies evaluating something and then acting in light of that judgment; here the prophet depicts Judah as approving of her youthful unfaithfulness and then magnifying it at the present time. Some translations assume the verb should be repointed as a Niphal, rendering “you missed” or by extension “you longed for,” but such an extension of the Niphal “to be missing” is otherwise unattested.

[23:21]  ⁵ tn Heb “when (they) did,” but the verb makes no sense here and is better emended to “when (they) fondled,” a verb used in vv. 3 and 8. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.

[23:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “for the sake of,” but the expression is awkward and is better emended to read “to squeeze.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:43.

[30:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “all who aid her are broken.”

[30:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n.”

[30:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.

[30:15]  ⁸ tn Or “kill.”

[30:16]  ⁸ tc The LXX reads “Syene,” which is Aswan in the south. The MT reads Sin, which has already been mentioned in v. 15.