Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ¹  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children ²  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys ³  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out ⁴  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 23:42

23:42 The sound of a carefree crowd accompanied her, ⁵  including all kinds of men; ⁶  even Sabeans ⁷  were brought from the desert. The sisters ⁸  put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ⁹ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

[20:15]  ¹ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:21]  ² tn Heb “sons.”

[20:21]  ³ tn Or “carries them out.”

[20:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

[23:42]  ³ tn Heb “(was) in her.”

[23:42]  ⁴ tn Heb “and men from the multitude of mankind.”

[23:42]  ⁵ tn An alternate reading is “drunkards.” Sheba is located in the area of modern day Yemen.

[23:42]  ⁶ tn Heb “they”; the referents (the sisters) have been specified in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[29:5]  ⁴ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”