Ezekiel 16:38

16:38 I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. ¹  I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. ² 

Ezekiel 20:19

20:19 I am the Lord your God; follow my statutes, observe my regulations, and carry them out.

Ezekiel 11:20

11:20 so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God. ³ 

Ezekiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, ⁴  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; ⁵  he will surely live.

Ezekiel 20:11

20:11 I gave them my statutes ⁶  and revealed my regulations to them. The one ⁷  who carries ⁸  them out will live by them! ⁹ 

Ezekiel 20:24

20:24 I did this ¹⁰  because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on ¹¹  their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 39:21

39:21 “I will display my majesty ¹²  among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited ¹³  among them.

Ezekiel 5:6-7

5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations ¹⁴  and the countries around her. ¹⁵  Indeed, they ¹⁶  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ¹⁷  than the nations around you, ¹⁸  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ¹⁹  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Ezekiel 20:13

20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations (the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out ²⁰  my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them. ²¹ 

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children ²²  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys ²³  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out ²⁴  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

[16:38]  ¹ tn Heb “and I will judge you (with) the judgments of adulteresses and of those who shed blood.”

[16:38]  ² tn Heb “and I will give you the blood of rage and zeal.”

[11:20]  ³ sn The expression They will be my people, and I will be their God occurs as a promise to Abraham (Gen 17:8), Moses (Exod 6:7), and the nation (Exod 29:45).

[18:17]  ⁵ tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

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

[20:11]  ⁷ sn The laws were given at Mount Sinai.

[20:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “the man.”

[20:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “does.”

[20:11]  ¹⁰ tn The wording and the concept is contained in Lev 18:5 and Deut 30:15-19.

[20:24]  ⁹ tn The words “I did this” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied for stylistic reasons. Verses 23-24 are one long sentence in the Hebrew text. The translation divides this sentence into two for stylistic reasons.

[20:24]  ¹⁰ tn Or “they worshiped” (NCV, TEV, CEV); Heb “their eyes were on” or “were after” (cf. v. 16).

[39:21]  ¹¹ tn Or “my glory.”

[39:21]  ¹² tn Heb “my hand which I have placed.”

[5:6]  ¹³ sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.

[5:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”

[5:6]  ¹⁵ sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.

[5:7]  ¹⁵ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

[5:7]  ¹⁶ sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

[5:7]  ¹⁷ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

[20:13]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[20:13]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “to bring them to an end.”

[20:21]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “sons.”

[20:21]  ²⁰ tn Or “carries them out.”

[20:21]  ²¹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”