Ezekiel 6:6

6:6 In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. ¹ 

Ezekiel 6:14

6:14 I will stretch out my hand against them ²  and make the land a desolate waste from the wilderness to Riblah, ³  in all the places where they live. Then they will know that I am the Lord!”

Ezekiel 16:31

16:31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 16:51

16:51 Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. ⁵  You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

Ezekiel 17:21

17:21 All the choice men ⁶  among his troops will die ⁷  by the sword and the survivors will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct ⁸  and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves ⁹  because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Ezekiel 23:7

23:7 She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired ¹⁰  – with all their idols.

Ezekiel 25:6

25:6 For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn ¹¹  over the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 34:6

34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

Ezekiel 44:24

44:24 “‘In a controversy they will act as judges; ¹²  they will judge according to my ordinances. They will keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals and will observe ¹³  my Sabbaths.

[6:6]  ¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

[6:14]  ² 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]  ³ 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).

[16:31]  ³ tn The Hebrew term, which also occurs in vv. 34 and 41 of this chapter, always refers to the payment of a prostitute (Deut 23:19; Isa 23:17; Hos 9:1; Mic 1:7).

[16:51]  ⁴ tn Or “you have multiplied your abominable deeds beyond them.”

[17:21]  ⁵ tc Some manuscripts and versions read “choice men,” while most manuscripts read “fugitives”; the difference arises from the reversal, or metathesis, of two letters, מִבְרָחָיו (mivrakhyv) for מִבְחָריו (mivkharyv).

[17:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “fall.”

[20:43]  ⁶ tn Heb “ways.”

[20:43]  ⁷ tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

[23:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “lusted after.”

[25:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”

[44:24]  ⁹ sn For a historical illustration of the priest carrying out this function, see 2 Chr 19:9-11.

[44:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “sanctify, set apart.”