Ezekiel 16:61

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Ezekiel 22:15

22:15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you. ¹ 

Ezekiel 16:42

16:42 I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry.

Ezekiel 22:5

22:5 Those both near and far from you will mock you, you with your bad reputation, ²  full of turmoil.

Ezekiel 32:6

32:6 I will drench the land with the flow

of your blood up to the mountains,

and the ravines will be full of your blood. ³ 

Ezekiel 16:46

16:46 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north ⁴  of you with her daughters, and your younger sister, who lived south ⁵  of you, was Sodom ⁶  with her daughters.

Ezekiel 21:3-4

21:3 and say to them, ⁷  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ⁸  I am against you. ⁹  I will draw my sword ¹⁰  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ¹¹  21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ¹²  from the south ¹³  to the north.

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. ¹⁴  You will not seek their help ¹⁵  or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 24:16

24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, ¹⁶  but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

Ezekiel 29:8

29:8 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill ¹⁷  every person and every animal.

Ezekiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ¹⁸  all the birds of the sky to settle ¹⁹  on you,

and I will permit ²⁰  all the wild animals ²¹  to gorge themselves on you.

Ezekiel 16:52

16:52 So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. ²²  Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.

[22:15]  ¹ sn The ultimate purpose of divine judgment is to purify the covenant community of its sins.

[22:5]  ¹ tn Heb “unclean of name.”

[32:6]  ¹ tn Heb “from you.”

[16:46]  ¹ tn Heb “left.”

[16:46]  ² tn Heb “right.”

[16:46]  ³ sn Sodom was the epitome of evil (Deut 29:23; 32:32; Isa 1:9-10; 3:9; Jer 23:14; Lam 4:6; Matt 10:15; 11:23-24; Jude 7).

[21:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

[21:3]  ² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

[21:3]  ³ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

[21:3]  ⁴ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

[21:3]  ⁵ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

[21:4]  ¹ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

[21:4]  ² tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

[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.”

[24:16]  ¹ tn Heb “a strike.”

[29:8]  ¹ tn Heb “I will cut off from you.”

[32:4]  ¹ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ² tn Heb “live.”

[32:4]  ³ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

[16:52]  ¹ tn Heb “because you have interceded for your sisters with your sins.”