Ezekiel 5:8-10

5:8 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: I – even I – am against you, ¹  and I will execute judgment ²  among you while the nations watch. ³  5:9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. ⁴  5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, ⁵  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors ⁶  to the winds. ⁷ 

Ezekiel 16:59

16:59 “‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant.

Ezekiel 22:14

22:14 Can your heart endure, ⁸  or can your hands be strong when I deal with you? ⁹  I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!

Ezekiel 24:14

24:14 “‘I the Lord have spoken; judgment ¹⁰  is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry! ¹¹  I will judge you ¹²  according to your conduct ¹³  and your deeds, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 25:17

25:17 I will exact great vengeance upon them with angry rebukes. ¹⁴  Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I exact my vengeance upon them.’”

Ezekiel 35:11

35:11 therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will deal with you according to your anger, and according to your envy, by which you acted spitefully against them. I will reveal myself to them when I judge you.

Ezekiel 36:36

36:36 Then the nations which remain around you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruins and replanted what was desolate. I, the Lord, have spoken – and I will do it!’

Ezekiel 37:14

37:14 I will place my breath ¹⁵  in you and you will live; I will give you rest in your own land. Then you will know that I am the Lord – I have spoken and I will act, declares the Lord.’”

Ezekiel 17:24

17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.

I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.

I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Ezekiel 37:22

37:22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will rule over them all. They will never again be two nations and never again be divided into two kingdoms. ¹⁶ 

[5:8]  ¹ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15. In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.

[5:8]  ² tn The Hebrew text uses wordplay here to bring out the appropriate nature of God’s judgment. “Execute” translates the same Hebrew verb translated “carried out” (literally meaning “do”) in v. 7, while “judgment” in v. 8 and “regulations” in v. 7 translate the same Hebrew noun (meaning “regulations” or in some cases “judgments” executed on those who break laws). The point seems to be this: God would “carry out judgments” against those who refused to “carry out” his “laws.”

[5:8]  ³ tn Heb “in the sight of the nations.”

[5:9]  ⁴ tn Or “abominable idols.”

[5:10]  ⁷ tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”

[5:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “all of your survivors.”

[5:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “to every wind.”

[22:14]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “stand.” The heart here stands for the emotions; Jerusalem would panic in the face of God’s judgment.

[22:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “in the days when I act against you.”

[24:14]  ¹³ tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[24:14]  ¹⁴ tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”

[24:14]  ¹⁵ tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”

[24:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “ways.”

[25:17]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “with acts of punishment of anger.”

[37:14]  ¹⁹ tn Or “spirit.” This is likely an allusion to Gen 2 and God’s breath which creates life.

[37:22]  ²² sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).