Ezekiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ²  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ³ 

Ezekiel 21:24

21:24 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you have brought up ⁴  your own guilt by uncovering your transgressions and revealing your sins through all your actions, for this reason you will be taken by force. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ⁶ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ⁷  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ⁸ 

Ezekiel 26:20

26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, ⁹  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ¹⁰  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ¹¹  in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 44:30

44:30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind ¹²  will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

[20:31]  ¹ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ² tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ³ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[21:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “caused to be remembered.”

[21:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt when your transgressions are uncovered so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds – because you are remembered, by the hand you will be seized.”

[26:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

[26:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

[26:17]  ⁹ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

[26:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”

[26:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).

[26:20]  ¹² tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”

[44:30]  ¹³ tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.