Ezekiel 3:27

3:27 But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue ¹  and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, ²  for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 21:22

21:22 Into his right hand ³  comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal ⁴  for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, ⁵  to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.

Ezekiel 21:28

21:28 “As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; ⁶  say:

“‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter,

polished to consume, ⁷  to flash like lightning –

Ezekiel 37:12

37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 44:2

44:2 The Lord said to me: “This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

Ezekiel 46:12

46:12 When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a voluntary offering to the Lord, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings just as he did on the Sabbath. Then he will go out, and the gate will be closed after he goes out. ⁸ 

[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.”

[21:22]  ³ tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.

[21:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.

[21:22]  ⁵ tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”

[21:28]  ⁵ tn Heb “their reproach.”

[21:28]  ⁶ tn Heb “to contain, endure.” Since the Hebrew text as it stands makes little, if any, sense, most emend the text to read either “to consume” or “for destruction.” For discussion of options see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:693.

[46:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “he shall shut the gate after he goes out.”