Ezekiel 4:10-11

4:10 The food you eat will be eight ounces ¹  a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed ²  times. 4:11 And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; ³  you must drink it at fixed times.

Ezekiel 35:5

35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ⁴  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Ezekiel 27:34

27:34 Now you are wrecked by the seas, in the depths of the waters;

your merchandise and all your company have sunk ⁵  along with you. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 30:3

30:3 For the day is near,

the day of the Lord is near;

it will be a day of storm clouds, ⁷ 

it will be a time of judgment ⁸  for the nations.

Ezekiel 34:26

34:26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 16:8

16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing ¹⁰  that you had reached the age for love. ¹¹  I spread my cloak ¹²  over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 7:7

7:7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day ¹³  is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 7:12

7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath ¹⁵  comes against their whole crowd.

Ezekiel 12:27

12:27 “Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.’

Ezekiel 16:57

16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram ¹⁶  and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.

Ezekiel 21:25

21:25 “‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, ¹⁷ 

whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

Ezekiel 22:3

22:3 Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), ¹⁸  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Ezekiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you ¹⁹  –

to place that sword ²⁰  on the necks of the profane wicked, ²¹ 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

[4:10]  ¹ sn Eight ounces (Heb “twenty shekels”). The standards for weighing money varied considerably in the ancient Near East, but the generally accepted weight for the shekel is 11.5 grams (0.4 ounce). This makes the weight of grain about 230 grams here (8 ounces).

[4:10]  ² tn Heb “from time to time.”

[4:11]  ³ sn A pint and a half [Heb “one-sixth of a hin”]. One-sixth of a hin was a quantity of liquid equal to about 1.3 pints or 0.6 liters.

[35:5]  ⁵ tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.

[27:34]  ⁷ tn Heb “fallen.”

[27:34]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the midst of you.”

[30:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “a day of clouds.” The expression occurs also in Joel 2:2 and Zeph 1:15; it recalls the appearance of God at Mount Sinai (Exod 19:9, 16, 18).

[30:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “a time.” The words “of judgment” have been added in the translation for clarification (see the following verses).

[34:26]  ¹¹ tn Heb “showers of blessing.” Abundant rain, which in turn produces fruit and crops (v. 27), is a covenantal blessing for obedience (Lev 26:4).

[16:8]  ¹³ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

[16:8]  ¹⁴ tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

[16:8]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).

[7:7]  ¹⁵ sn The day refers to the day of the Lord, a concept which, beginning in Amos 5:18-20, became a common theme in the OT prophetic books. It refers to a time when the Lord intervenes in human affairs as warrior and judge.

[7:7]  ¹⁶ tc The LXX reads “neither tumult nor birth pains.” The LXX varies at many points from the MT in this chapter. The context suggests that one or both of these would be present on a day of judgment, thus favoring the MT. Perhaps more significant is the absence of “the mountains” in the LXX. If the ר (resh) in הָרִים (harim, “the mountains” not “on the mountains”) were a ד (dalet), which is a common letter confusion, then it could be from the same root as the previous word, הֵד (hed), meaning “the day is near – with destruction, not joyful shouting.”

[7:12]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.

[16:57]  ¹⁹ tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”

[21:25]  ²¹ tn This probably refers to King Zedekiah.

[22:3]  ²³ tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).

[21:29]  ²⁵ tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

[21:29]  ²⁶ tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:29]  ²⁷ sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.