Ezekiel 17:5

17:5 He took one of the seedlings ¹  of the land,

placed it in a cultivated plot; ² 

a shoot by abundant water,

like a willow he planted it.

Ezekiel 19:10

19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, ³  planted by water.

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

Ezekiel 27:15

27:15 The Dedanites ⁴  were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid ⁵  you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:26

27:26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.

The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 27:33

27:33 When your products went out from the seas,

you satisfied many peoples;

with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise

you enriched the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 31:7

31:7 It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches;

for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

Ezekiel 32:9

32:9 I will disturb ⁶  many peoples,

when I bring about your destruction among the nations,

among countries you do not know.

Ezekiel 38:23

38:23 I will exalt and magnify myself; I will reveal myself before many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “took of the seed of the land.” For the vine imagery, “seedling” is a better translation, though in its subsequent interpretation the “seed” refers to Zedekiah through its common application to offspring.

[17:5]  ² tn Heb “a field for seed.”

[19:10]  ³ 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.

[27:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “sons of Dedan.”

[27:15]  ⁶ tn Heb “they returned as your gift.”

[32:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will provoke the heart of.”