Ezekiel 3:2

3:2 So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

Ezekiel 16:56

16:56 In your days of majesty, ¹  was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth,

Ezekiel 35:13

35:13 You exalted yourselves against me with your speech ²  and hurled many insults against me ³  – I have heard them all!

Ezekiel 3:17

3:17 “Son of man, I have appointed you a watchman ⁴  for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must give them a warning from me.

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ⁵  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ⁶  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ⁷  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 24:27

24:27 On that day you will be able to speak again; ⁹  you will talk with the fugitive and be silent no longer. You will be an object lesson for them, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 29:21

29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, ¹⁰  and I will give you the right to be heard ¹¹  among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 33:7

33:7 “As for you, son of man, I have made you a watchman ¹²  for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you must warn them on my behalf.

Ezekiel 2:8

2:8 As for you, son of man, listen to what I am saying to you: Do not rebel like that rebellious house! Open your mouth and eat what I am giving you.”

Ezekiel 3:3

3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it, ¹³  and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:27

3:27 But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue ¹⁴  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, ¹⁵  for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 4:14

4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat ¹⁶  has never entered my mouth.”

Ezekiel 16:63

16:63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent ¹⁷  when I make atonement for all you have done, ¹⁸  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 21:22

21:22 Into his right hand ¹⁹  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ²⁰  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ²¹  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

Ezekiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, ²²  and they sit in front of you as ²³  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey ²⁴  them. For they talk lustfully, ²⁵  and their heart is set on ²⁶  their own advantage. ²⁷ 

Ezekiel 34:10

34:10 This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand my sheep from their hand. I will no longer let them be shepherds; ²⁸  the shepherds will not feed themselves anymore. I will rescue my sheep from their mouth, so that they will no longer be food for them.

[16:56]  ¹ tn Or “pride.”

[35:13]  ¹ tn Heb “your mouth.”

[35:13]  ² tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.

[3:17]  ¹ tn The literal role of a watchman is described in 2 Sam 18:24; 2 Kgs 9:17.

[33:22]  ¹ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

[33:22]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:22]  ³ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

[33:22]  ⁴ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

[24:27]  ¹ tn Heb “your mouth will open.”

[29:21]  ¹ tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.

[29:21]  ² tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”

[33:7]  ¹ sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.

[3:3]  ¹ tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.

[3:27]  ¹ tn Heb “open your mouth.”

[3:27]  ² tn Heb “the listener will listen, the refuser will refuse.” Because the word for listening can also mean obeying, the nuance may be that the obedient will listen, or that the one who listens will obey. Also, although the verbs are not jussive as pointed in the MT, some translate them with a volitive sense: “the one who listens – let that one listen, the one who refuses – let that one refuse.”

[4:14]  ¹ tn The Hebrew term refers to sacrificial meat not eaten by the appropriate time (Lev 7:18; 19:7).

[16:63]  ¹ tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”

[16:63]  ² tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”

[21:22]  ¹ tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

[21:22]  ² tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

[21:22]  ³ tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”

[33:31]  ¹ tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

[33:31]  ² tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

[33:31]  ³ tn Heb “do.”

[33:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

[33:31]  ⁵ tn Heb “goes after.”

[33:31]  ⁶ tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

[34:10]  ¹ tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”