Ezekiel 5:7

5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant ¹  than the nations around you, ²  you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even ³  carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Ezekiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. ⁴  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. ⁵  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth ⁶  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 12:3

12:3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, ⁸  although they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 29:18

29:18 “Son of man, King Nebuchadrezzar ⁹  of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. ¹⁰  Every head was rubbed bald and every shoulder rubbed bare; yet he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the work he carried out against it.

Ezekiel 31:12

31:12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land ¹¹  have departed ¹²  from its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 34:27

34:27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Ezekiel 37:23

37:23 They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness ¹³  by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ¹⁴  watch closely and listen carefully to ¹⁵  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ¹⁶  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

[5:7]  ¹ tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.

[5:7]  ² sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.

[5:7]  ³ tc Some Hebrew mss and the Syriac omit the words “not even.” In this case they are being accused of following the practices of the surrounding nations. See Ezek 11:12.

[7:19]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

[7:19]  ⁵ sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

[7:19]  ⁶ tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

[7:19]  ⁷ tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

[12:3]  ⁷ tn Heb “see.” This plays on the uses of “see” in v. 2. They will see his actions with their eyes and perhaps they will “see” with their mind, that is, understand or grasp the point.

[29:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “r” rather than an “n” (so also in v. 19).

[29:18]  ¹¹ sn Nebuchadnezzar besieged Tyre from 585 to 571 b.c.

[31:12]  ¹³ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[31:12]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “gone down.”

[37:23]  ¹⁶ tc Heb “their dwellings.” The text as it stands does not make sense. Based on the LXX, a slight emendation of two vowels, including a mater, yields the reading “from their turning,” a reference here to their turning from God and deviating from his commandments. See BDB 1000 s.v. מְשׁוּבָה, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:407.

[44:5]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

[44:5]  ²⁰ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

[44:5]  ²¹ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.