Ezekiel 4:3

4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan ¹  and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign ²  for the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 38:20

38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake ³  at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs ⁴  will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

Ezekiel 39:23

39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, ⁵  for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

[4:3]  ¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

[4:3]  ² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

[38:20]  ³ tn Or “tremble.”

[38:20]  ⁴ tn The term occurs only here and in Song of Songs 2:14.

[39:23]  ⁵ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.