Ezekiel 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 22:9

22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you. ¹  Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains; ²  they commit obscene acts among you. ³ 

Ezekiel 22:11

22:11 One ⁴  commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates ⁵  his sister – his father’s daughter ⁶  – within you.

Ezekiel 23:27

23:27 So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt. ⁷  You will not seek their help ⁸  or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 23:29

23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, ⁹  and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 23:35

23:35 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, ¹¹  you must bear now the punishment ¹²  for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”

Ezekiel 23:44

23:44 They had sex with her ¹³  as one does with a prostitute. In this way they had sex with Oholah and Oholibah, promiscuous women.

Ezekiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. ¹⁴ 

I tried to cleanse you, ¹⁵  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness ¹⁶ 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

[22:9]  ¹ tn Heb “men of slander are in you in order to shed blood.”

[22:9]  ² tn Heb “and on the mountains they eat within you.” The mountains mentioned here were the site of pagan sacrifices. See 18:6.

[22:9]  ³ sn This statement introduces vv. 10-11 and refers in general terms to the sexual sins described there. For the legal background of vv. 10-11, see Lev 18:7-20; 20:10-21; Deut 22:22-23, 30; 27:22.

[22:11]  ¹ tn Heb “a man.”

[22:11]  ² tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.

[22:11]  ³ sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.

[23:27]  ¹ tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”

[23:27]  ² tn Heb “lift your eyes to them.”

[23:29]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.

[23:29]  ² tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”

[23:35]  ¹ tn Heb “and you cast me behind your back.” The expression pictures her rejection of the Lord (see 1 Kgs 14:9).

[23:35]  ² tn The word “punishment” is not in the Hebrew text but is demanded by the context.

[23:44]  ¹ tn Heb “and they came to her.”

[24:13]  ¹ tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

[24:13]  ² tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

[24:13]  ³ tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”