Ezekiel 4:2

4:2 Lay siege to it! Build siege works against it. Erect a siege ramp ¹  against it! Post soldiers outside it ²  and station battering rams around it.

Ezekiel 16:19

16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 16:33-34

16:33 All prostitutes receive payment, ³  but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors! 16:34 You were different from other prostitutes ⁴  because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Ezekiel 21:11

21:11 “‘He gave it to be polished,

to be grasped in the hand –

the sword is sharpened, it is polished –

giving it into the hand of the executioner.

Ezekiel 25:4

25:4 So take note, ⁵  I am about to make you slaves of ⁶  the tribes ⁷  of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 32:23

32:23 Their ⁸  graves are located in the remote slopes of the pit. ⁹  Her assembly is around her grave, all of them struck down by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 37:6

37:6 I will put tendons ¹⁰  on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath ¹¹  in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 37:26

37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them. ¹²  I will establish them, ¹³  increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

[4:2]  ¹ tn Or “a barricade.”

[4:2]  ² tn Heb “set camps against it.”

[16:33]  ³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[16:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “With you it was opposite of women in your prostitution.”

[25:4]  ⁷ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

[25:4]  ⁸ tn Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”

[25:4]  ⁹ tn Heb “sons.”

[32:23]  ⁹ tn Heb “whose.”

[32:23]  ¹⁰ tn The only other occurrence of the phrase “remote slopes of the pit” is in Isa 14:15.

[37:6]  ¹¹ tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.

[37:6]  ¹² tn Or “a spirit.”

[37:26]  ¹³ sn See Isa 24:5; 55:3; 61:8; Jer 32:40; 50:5; Ezek 16:60, for other references to perpetual covenants.

[37:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “give them.”