Ezekiel 23:25

23:25 I will direct ¹  my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, ²  and your survivors will die ³  by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 27:27

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ⁴  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Ezekiel 28:13

28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. ⁵ 

Every precious stone was your covering,

the ruby, topaz, and emerald,

the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,

the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; ⁶ 

your settings and mounts were made of gold.

On the day you were created they were prepared.

Ezekiel 33:30

33:30 “But as for you, son of man, your people ⁷  (who are talking about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses) say to one another, ⁸  ‘Come hear the word that comes ⁹  from the Lord.’

Ezekiel 38:16

38:16 You will advance ¹⁰  against my people Israel like a cloud covering the earth. In the latter days I will bring you against my land so that the nations may acknowledge me, when before their eyes I magnify myself ¹¹  through you, O Gog.

[23:25]  ¹ tn Heb “give.”

[23:25]  ² tn Heb “they will remove.”

[23:25]  ³ tn Heb “fall.”

[27:27]  ⁴ tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

[28:13]  ⁷ sn The imagery of the lament appears to draw upon an extrabiblical Eden tradition about the expulsion of the first man (see v. 14 and the note there) from the garden due to his pride. The biblical Eden tradition speaks of cherubs placed as guardians at the garden entrance following the sin of Adam and Eve (Gen 3:24), but no guardian cherub like the one described in verse 14 is depicted or mentioned in the biblical account. Ezekiel’s imagery also appears to reflect Mesopotamian and Canaanite mythology at certain points. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:119-20.

[28:13]  ⁸ tn The exact identification of each gemstone is uncertain. The list should be compared to that of the priest in Exod 28:17-20, which lists twelve stones in rows of three. The LXX apparently imports the Exod 28 list. See reference to the types of stones in L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:91.

[33:30]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

[33:30]  ¹¹ tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”

[33:30]  ¹² tn Heb “comes out.”

[38:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “come up.”

[38:16]  ¹⁴ tn Or “reveal my holiness.”