Ezekiel 3:6

3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand ¹  – surely if ²  I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!

Ezekiel 5:7

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ³  than the nations around you, ⁴  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ⁵  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Ezekiel 7:13

7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller ⁶  while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd ⁷  will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, ⁸  will fail to preserve his life.

Ezekiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ⁹  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ¹⁰  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ¹¹  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ¹² 

Ezekiel 13:9

13:9 My hand will be against the prophets who see delusion and announce lying omens. They will not be included in the council ¹³  of my people, nor be written in the registry ¹⁴  of the house of Israel, nor enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 33:12

33:12 “And you, son of man, say to your people, ¹⁵  ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him if he rebels. ¹⁶  As for the wicked, his wickedness will not make him stumble if he turns from it. ¹⁷  The righteous will not be able to live by his righteousness ¹⁸  if he sins.’ ¹⁹ 

[3:6]  ¹ tn Heb “hear.”

[3:6]  ² tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.

[5:7]  ³ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

[5:7]  ⁴ sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

[5:7]  ⁵ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

[7:13]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the LXX for the first line of the verse, although the LXX has lost the second line due to homoioteleuton (similar endings of the clauses). The MT reads “The seller will not return to the sale.” This Hebrew reading has been construed as a reference to land redemption, the temporary sale of the use of property, with property rights returned to the seller in the year of Jubilee. But the context has no other indicator that land redemption is in view. If correct, the LXX evidence suggests that one of the cases of “the customer” has been replaced by “the seller” in the MT, perhaps due to hoimoioarcton (similar beginnings of the words).

[7:13]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

[7:13]  ⁷ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[7:19]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

[7:19]  ⁸ sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

[7:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

[7:19]  ¹⁰ tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

[13:9]  ⁹ tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the Lord (Jer 23:18; Job 15:8), but here it more likely refers to a human council comprised of civic leaders (Gen 49:6; Jer 6:11; 15:17 Ps 64:3; 111:1).

[13:9]  ¹⁰ tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).

[33:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

[33:12]  ¹² tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

[33:12]  ¹³ tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

[33:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “by it.”

[33:12]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”