Ezekiel 34:5

34:5 They were scattered because they had no shepherd, and they became food for every wild beast. ¹ 

Ezekiel 15:4

15:4 No! ²  It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

Ezekiel 21:32

21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –

your blood will stain the middle of the land; ³ 

you will no longer be remembered,

for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

Ezekiel 23:37

23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, ⁴  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 35:12

35:12 Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

Ezekiel 39:4

39:4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.

Ezekiel 15:6

15:6 “Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Like the wood of the vine is among the trees of the forest which I have provided as fuel for the fire – so I will provide the residents of Jerusalem ⁶  as fuel. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ⁸ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

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; ⁹  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.

Ezekiel 34:8

34:8 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

[34:5]  ¹ tn As a case of dittography, the MT repeats “and they were scattered” at the end of the verse.

[15:4]  ² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws one’s attention to something. Sometimes it may be translated as a verb of perception; here it is treated as a particle that fits the context (so also in v. 5, but with a different English word).

[21:32]  ³ tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”

[23:37]  ⁴ sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

[23:37]  ⁵ tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.

[15:6]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[15:6]  ⁶ tn The words “as fuel” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[29:5]  ⁶ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

[34:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”