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 3:5

3:5 For you are not being sent to a people of unintelligible speech ⁴  and difficult language, ⁵  but ⁶  to the house of Israel –

Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ⁷  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ⁸  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 7:3

7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge ⁹  you according to your behavior, ¹⁰  I will hold you accountable for ¹¹  all your abominable practices.

Ezekiel 13:6

13:6 They see delusion and their omens are a lie. ¹²  They say, “the Lord declares,” though the Lord has not sent them; ¹³  yet they expect their word to be confirmed. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 14:19

14:19 “Or suppose I were to send a plague into that land, and pour out my rage on it with bloodshed, killing both people and animals.

Ezekiel 17:6

17:6 It sprouted and became a vine,

spreading low to the ground; ¹⁵ 

its branches turning toward him, ¹⁶  its roots were under itself. ¹⁷ 

So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

Ezekiel 17:15

17:15 But this one from Israel’s royal family ¹⁸  rebelled against the king of Babylon ¹⁹  by sending his emissaries to Egypt to obtain horses and a large army. Will he prosper? Will the one doing these things escape? Can he break the covenant and escape?

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ²⁰  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ²¹  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 31:4-5

31:4 The water made it grow;

underground springs made it grow tall.

Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,

while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field. ²² 

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ²³ 

[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).

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “deep of lip” (in the sense of incomprehensible).

[3:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “heavy of tongue.” Similar language occurs in Exod 4:10; Isa 33:19.

[3:5]  ⁶ tn The conjunction “but” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied from the context.

[5:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[7:3]  ¹⁰ tn Or “punish” (cf. BDB 1047 s.v. שָׁפַט 3.c).

[7:3]  ¹¹ tn Heb “ways.”

[7:3]  ¹² tn Heb “I will place on you.”

[13:6]  ¹³ sn The same description of a false prophet is found in Micah 2:11.

[13:6]  ¹⁴ sn The Lord has not sent them. A similar concept is found in Jer 14:14; 23:21.

[13:6]  ¹⁵ tn Or “confirmed”; NIV “to be fulfilled”; TEV “to come true.”

[17:6]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “short of stature.”

[17:6]  ¹⁷ tn That is, the eagle.

[17:6]  ¹⁸ tn Or “him,” i.e., the eagle.

[17:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the member of the royal family, v. 13) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[17:15]  ²⁰ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the king of Babylon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ²² tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[28:23]  ²³ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

[31:4]  ²⁵ tn Heb “Waters made it grow; the deep made it grow tall. It (the deep) was flowing with its rivers around the place it (the tree) was planted, it (the deep) sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.”

[31:5]  ²⁸ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).