Ezekiel 16:56

16:56 In your days of majesty, ¹  was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

Ezekiel 19:10

19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ²  planted by water.

It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

Ezekiel 36:34

36:34 The desolate land will be plowed, instead of being desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.

Ezekiel 31:3

31:3 Consider Assyria, ³  a cedar in Lebanon, ⁴ 

with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,

and extremely tall;

its top reached into the clouds.

Ezekiel 36:2

36:2 This is what the sovereign Lord says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying “Aha!” and, “The ancient heights ⁵  have become our property!”’

Ezekiel 36:17

36:17 “Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior ⁶  and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.

Ezekiel 36:35

36:35 They will say, “This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden; the ruined, desolate, and destroyed cities are now fortified and inhabited.”

Ezekiel 37:1

The Valley of Dry Bones

37:1 The hand ⁷  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed ⁸  me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

Ezekiel 21:12

21:12 Cry out and moan, son of man,

for it is wielded against my people;

against all the princes of Israel.

They are delivered up to the sword, along with my people.

Therefore, strike your thigh. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹⁰ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ¹¹  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ¹² 

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ¹³  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ¹⁴  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ¹⁵  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ¹⁷  was struck down, on this very day, ¹⁸  the hand ¹⁹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²⁰ 

Ezekiel 44:25

44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; ²¹  however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.

[16:56]  ¹ tn Or “pride.”

[19:10]  ² tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.

[31:3]  ³ sn Either Egypt, or the Lord compares Egypt to Assyria, which is described in vv. 3-17 through the metaphor of a majestic tree. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:185. Like Egypt, Assyria had been a great world power, but in time God brought the Assyrians down. Egypt should learn from history the lesson that no nation, no matter how powerful, can withstand the judgment of God. Rather than following the text here, some prefer to emend the proper name Assyria to a similar sounding common noun meaning “boxwood” (see Ezek 27:6), which would make a fitting parallel to “cedar of Lebanon” in the following line. In this case vv. 3-18 in their entirety refer to Egypt, not Assyria. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:121-27.

[31:3]  ⁴ sn Lebanon was know for its cedar trees (Judg 9:15; 1 Kgs 4:33; 5:6; 2 Kgs 14:9; Ezra 3:7; Pss 29:5; 92:12; 104:16).

[36:2]  ⁴ tn Or “high places.”

[36:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “way.”

[37:1]  ⁶ tn Or “power.”

[37:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “caused me to rest.”

[21:12]  ⁷ sn This physical action was part of an expression of grief. Cp. Jer. 31:19.

[26:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

[26:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

[26:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

[33:22]  ⁹ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ¹¹ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ¹² sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[40:1]  ¹⁰ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ¹¹ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹² tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  ¹³ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).

[44:25]  ¹¹ sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).