Ezekiel 6:14

6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them ¹  and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, ²  in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

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 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 20:22-23

20:22 But I refrained from doing so, ³  and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out. 20:23 I also swore ⁴  to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 20:42

20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore ⁶  to give to your fathers.

Ezekiel 25:16

25:16 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill ⁷  the Cherethites ⁸  and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.

Ezekiel 35:3

35:3 Say to it, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;

I will stretch out my hand against you

and turn you into a desolate ruin.

Ezekiel 35:5

35:5 “‘You have shown unrelenting hostility and poured the people of Israel onto the blades of a sword ⁹  at the time of their calamity, at the time of their final punishment.

Ezekiel 36:7

36:7 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I vow ¹⁰  that the nations around you will endure insults as well.

Ezekiel 39:21

39:21 “I will display my majesty ¹¹  among the nations. All the nations will witness the judgment I have executed, and the power I have exhibited ¹²  among them.

Ezekiel 47:14

47:14 You must divide it equally just as I vowed to give it to your forefathers; ¹³  this land will be assigned as your inheritance. ¹⁴ 

[6:14]  ¹ sn I will stretch out my hand against them is a common expression in the book of Ezekiel (14:9, 13; 16:27; 25:7; 35:3).

[6:14]  ² tc The Vulgate reads the name as “Riblah,” a city north of Damascus. The MT reads Diblah, a city otherwise unknown. The letters resh (ר) and dalet (ד) may have been confused in the Hebrew text. The town of Riblah was in the land of Hamath (2 Kgs 23:33) which represented the northern border of Israel (Ezek 47:14).

[20:22]  ³ tn Heb “drew my hand back.” This idiom also occurs in Lam 2:8 and Ps 74:11.

[20:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:23]  ⁶ sn Though the Pentateuch does not seem to know of this episode, Ps 106:26-27 may speak of God’s oath to exile the people before they had entered Canaan.

[20:42]  ⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[25:16]  ⁹ tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.

[25:16]  ¹⁰ sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.

[35:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10.

[36:7]  ¹³ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[39:21]  ¹⁵ tn Or “my glory.”

[39:21]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “my hand which I have placed.”

[47:14]  ¹⁷ sn Gen 15:9-21.

[47:14]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will fall to you as an inheritance.”