Ezekiel 2:4

2:4 The people ¹  to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, ²  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ ³ 

Ezekiel 3:22

Isolated and Silenced

3:22 The hand ⁴  of the Lord rested on me there, and he said to me, “Get up, go out to the valley, ⁵  and I will speak with you there.”

Ezekiel 16:57

16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram ⁶  and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.

Ezekiel 16:59

16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Ezekiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ⁷  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ⁸  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Ezekiel 23:29

23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, ⁹  and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 38:9

38:9 You will advance; ¹¹  you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.

[2:4]  ¹ tn Heb “sons.” The word choice may reflect treaty idiom, where the relationship between an overlord and his subjects can be described as that of father and son.

[2:4]  ² tc Heb “stern of face and hard of heart.” The phrases “stern of face” and “hard of heart” are lacking in the LXX.

[2:4]  ³ tn The phrase “thus says [the Lord]” occurs 129 times in Ezekiel; the announcement is identical to the way messengers often introduced their messages (Gen 32:5; 45:9; Exod 5:10; Num 20:14; Judg 11:15).

[3:22]  ⁴ tn Or “power.”

[3:22]  ⁵ sn Ezekiel had another vision at this location, recounted in Ezek 37.

[16:57]  ⁷ tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”

[22:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

[22:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

[23:29]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.

[23:29]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”

[38:9]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “go up.”