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 5:2

5:2 Burn a third of it in the fire inside the city when the days of your siege are completed. Take a third and slash it with a sword all around the city. Scatter a third to the wind, and I will unleash a sword behind them.

Ezekiel 9:4

9:4 The Lord said to him, “Go through the city of Jerusalem ³  and put a mark ⁴  on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

Ezekiel 9:9

9:9 He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, ⁵  for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’ ⁶ 

Ezekiel 10:2

10:2 The Lord ⁷  said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork ⁸  underneath the cherubim. ⁹  Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.

Ezekiel 21:19

21:19 “You, son of man, mark out two routes for the king of Babylon’s sword to take; both of them will originate in a single land. Make a signpost and put it at the beginning of the road leading to the city.

Ezekiel 24:6

24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed,

the pot whose rot ¹⁰  is in it,

whose rot has not been removed ¹¹  from it!

Empty it piece by piece.

No lot has fallen on it. ¹² 

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹³ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ¹⁴  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 36:4

36:4 therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the sovereign Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, and to the desolate ruins and the abandoned cities that have become prey and an object of derision to the rest of the nations round about –

Ezekiel 39:9

39:9 “‘Then those who live in the cities of Israel will go out and use the weapons for kindling ¹⁶  – the shields, ¹⁷  bows and arrows, war clubs and spears – they will burn them for seven years.

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ¹⁸  was struck down, on this very day, ¹⁹  the hand ²⁰  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²¹ 

Ezekiel 43:3

43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he ²²  came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.

Ezekiel 48:18

48:18 The remainder of the length alongside the holy allotment will be three and one-third miles ²³  to the east and three and one-third miles toward the west, and it will be beside the holy allotment. Its produce will be for food for the workers of the city.

[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.

[9:4]  ³ tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”

[9:4]  ⁴ tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.

[9:9]  ⁵ tn Or “lawlessness” (NAB); “perversity” (NRSV). The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT, and its meaning is uncertain. The similar phrase in 7:23 has a common word for “violence.”

[9:9]  ⁶ sn The saying is virtually identical to that of the elders in Ezek 8:12.

[10:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[10:2]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).

[10:2]  ⁹ tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum mss read plural “cherubim” while the MT is singular here, “cherub.” The plural ending was probably omitted in copying the MT due to the similar beginning of the next word.

[24:6]  ⁹ tn Or “rust.”

[24:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “has not gone out.”

[24:6]  ¹¹ tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.

[26:17]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

[26:17]  ¹² tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

[26:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

[39:9]  ¹³ tn Heb “burn and kindle the weapons.”

[39:9]  ¹⁴ tn Two different types of shields are specified in the Hebrew text.

[40:1]  ¹⁵ sn That is, Jerusalem.

[40:1]  ¹⁶ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

[40:1]  ¹⁷ tn Or “power.”

[40:1]  ¹⁸ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).

[43:3]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew mss, Theodotion’s Greek version, and the Latin Vulgate support a third person pronoun here.

[48:18]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “ten thousand cubits” (i.e., 5.25 kilometers); the phrase occurs again later in this verse.