Ezekiel 16:57

16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram ¹  and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.

Ezekiel 28:24

28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers ²  or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. ³  Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 28:26

28:26 They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely ⁴  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.’”

[16:57]  ¹ tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”

[28:24]  ² sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.

[28:24]  ³ tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”

[28:26]  ³ sn This promise was given in Lev 25:18-19.