Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ¹  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ²  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ³  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 16:63

16:63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent ⁴  when I make atonement for all you have done, ⁵  declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 20:6

20:6 On that day I swore ⁶  to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out ⁷  for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, ⁸  the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:15

20:15 I also swore ⁹  to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them to the land I had given them – a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹⁰  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ¹¹  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ¹² 

Ezekiel 22:4

22:4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; ¹³  the end of your years has come. ¹⁴  Therefore I will make ¹⁵  you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: ¹⁶ 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished ¹⁷  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! ¹⁸ 

Ezekiel 40:4

40:4 The man said to me, “Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention ¹⁹  to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. ²⁰  Tell the house of Israel everything you see.”

Ezekiel 44:5

44:5 The Lord said to me: “Son of man, pay attention, ²¹  watch closely and listen carefully to ²²  everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the Lord’s house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances ²³  to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.

Ezekiel 44:9

44:9 This is what the sovereign Lord says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary. ²⁴ 

[6:9]  ¹ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

[6:9]  ² tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

[6:9]  ³ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

[16:63]  ⁴ tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”

[16:63]  ⁵ tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”

[20:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand to them.”

[20:6]  ⁸ tn Or “searched out.” The Hebrew word is used to describe the activity of the spies in “spying out” the land of Canaan (Num 13-14); cf. KJV “I had espied for them.”

[20:6]  ⁹ sn The phrase “a land flowing with milk and honey,” a figure of speech describing the land’s abundant fertility, occurs in v. 15 as well as Exod 3:8, 17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev 20:24; Num 13:27; Deut 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; Josh 5:6; Jer 11:5; 32:23 (see also Deut 1:25; 8:7-9).

[20:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”

[20:31]  ¹³ tn Or “gifts.”

[20:31]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

[20:31]  ¹⁵ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

[22:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “you have brought near your days.” The expression “bring near your days” appears to be an adaptation of the idiom “days draw near,” which is used to indicate that an event, such as death, is imminent (see Gen 27:41; 47:29; Deut 31:14; 1 Kgs 2:1; Ezek 12:23). Here “your days” probably refers to the days of the personified city’s life, which was about to come to an end through God’s judgment.

[22:4]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “and you have come to your years.” This appears to mean that she has arrived at the time when her years (i.e., life) would end, though it may mean that her years of punishment will begin. Because “day” and “time” are so closely associated in the immediate context (see 21:25, 29) some prefer to emend the text and read “you have brought near your time.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:31, as well as the translator’s note on verse 3.

[22:4]  ¹⁸ tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.

[26:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

[26:17]  ²⁰ tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

[26:17]  ²¹ tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”

[40:4]  ²² tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”

[40:4]  ²³ tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”

[44:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “set your heart” (so also in the latter part of the verse).

[44:5]  ²⁶ tn Heb “Set your mind, look with your eyes, and with your ears hear.”

[44:5]  ²⁷ tc The Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum read the plural. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:618.

[44:9]  ²⁸ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.