Ezekiel 7:11

7:11 Violence ¹  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ²  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ³ 

Ezekiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ⁴  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ⁵ 

Ezekiel 18:25

18:25 “Yet you say, ‘The Lord’s conduct ⁶  is unjust!’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

Ezekiel 18:29

18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The Lord’s conduct is unjust!’ Is my conduct unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?

[7:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the violence.”

[7:11]  ² tc The LXX reads “he will crush the wicked rod without confusion or haste.”

[7:11]  ³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[16:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

[16:4]  ⁵ sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

[18:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “way.”