Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ¹  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ²  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 11:2

11:2 The Lord ³  said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.

Ezekiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Ezekiel 16:57

16:57 before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram ⁴  and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines – those all around you who despise you.

Ezekiel 20:43-44

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ⁵  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ⁶  because of all the evil deeds you have done. 20:44 Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I deal with you for the sake of my reputation and not according to your wicked conduct and corrupt deeds, O house of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 30:12

30:12 I will dry up the waterways

and hand the land over to ⁷  evil men.

I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.

I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 34:25

34:25 “‘I will make a covenant of peace with them and will rid the land of wild beasts, so that they can live securely ⁸  in the wilderness and even sleep in the woods. ⁹ 

Ezekiel 36:31

36:31 Then you will remember your evil behavior ¹⁰  and your deeds which were not good; you will loathe yourselves on account of your sins and your abominable deeds.

Ezekiel 38:10

38:10 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, ¹¹  and you will devise an evil plan.

[5:17]  ¹ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ² tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[11:2]  ³ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:57]  ⁵ tc So MT, LXX, and Vulgate; many Hebrew mss and Syriac read “Edom.”

[20:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “ways.”

[20:43]  ⁸ tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

[30:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”

[34:25]  ¹¹ tn The phrase “live securely” occurs in Ezek 28:26; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:26 as an expression of freedom from fear. It is a promised blessing resulting from obedience (see Lev 26:5-6).

[34:25]  ¹² sn The woods were typically considered to be places of danger (Ps 104:20-21; Jer 5:6).

[36:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “ways.”

[38:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “words will go up upon your heart.”