Ezekiel 7:4

7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare ¹  you. ²  For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, ³  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. ⁴  Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 7:13

7:13 The customer will no longer pay the seller ⁵  while both parties are alive, for the vision against their whole crowd ⁶  will not be revoked. Each person, for his iniquity, ⁷  will fail to preserve his life.

Ezekiel 8:5

8:5 He said to me, “Son of man, look up toward ⁸  the north.” So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.

Ezekiel 8:11

8:11 Seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel ⁹  (with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them) were standing in front of them, each with a censer in his hand, and fragrant ¹⁰  vapors from a cloud of incense were swirling upward.

Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; ¹¹  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies ¹²  and I will give them tender hearts, ¹³ 

Ezekiel 12:16

12:16 But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 14:3

14:3 “Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity ¹⁴  right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek ¹⁵  me?

Ezekiel 16:15

16:15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty ¹⁶  became his.

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 16:47

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ¹⁷  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ¹⁸  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Ezekiel 20:9

20:9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, ¹⁹  so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, ²⁰  before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. ²¹ 

Ezekiel 21:10

21:10 It is sharpened for slaughter,

it is polished to flash like lightning!

“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree! ²² 

Ezekiel 33:15

33:15 He ²³  returns what was taken in pledge, pays back what he has stolen, and follows the statutes that give life, ²⁴  committing no iniquity. He will certainly live – he will not die.

Ezekiel 48:20

48:20 The whole allotment will be eight and a quarter miles ²⁵  square, you must set apart the holy allotment with the possession of the city.

[7:4]  ¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

[7:4]  ² tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

[7:4]  ³ tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

[7:13]  ⁵ tc The translation follows the LXX for the first line of the verse, although the LXX has lost the second line due to homoioteleuton (similar endings of the clauses). The MT reads “The seller will not return to the sale.” This Hebrew reading has been construed as a reference to land redemption, the temporary sale of the use of property, with property rights returned to the seller in the year of Jubilee. But the context has no other indicator that land redemption is in view. If correct, the LXX evidence suggests that one of the cases of “the customer” has been replaced by “the seller” in the MT, perhaps due to hoimoioarcton (similar beginnings of the words).

[7:13]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

[7:13]  ⁷ tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in v. 16; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 18:17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

[8:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “lift your eyes (to) the way of.”

[8:11]  ¹³ sn Note the contrast between these seventy men who represented Israel and the seventy elders who ate the covenant meal before God, inaugurating the covenant relationship (Exod 24:1, 9).

[8:11]  ¹⁴ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

[11:19]  ¹⁷ tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

[11:19]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “their flesh.”

[11:19]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

[14:3]  ²¹ tn Heb “the stumbling block of their iniquity.” This phrase is unique to the prophet Ezekiel.

[14:3]  ²² tn Or “I will not reveal myself to them.” The Hebrew word is used in a technical sense here of seeking an oracle from a prophet (2 Kgs 1:16; 3:11; 8:8).

[16:15]  ²⁵ tn Heb “it” (so KJV, ASV); the referent (the beauty in which the prostitute trusted, see the beginning of the verse) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[16:47]  ²⁹ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

[16:47]  ³⁰ tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.

[20:9]  ³³ tn Heb “for the sake of my name.”

[20:9]  ³⁴ tn Heb “before the eyes of the nations in whose midst they were.”

[20:9]  ³⁵ tn Heb “to whom I made myself known before their eyes to bring them out from the land of Egypt.” The translation understands the infinitive construct (“to bring them out”) as indicating manner. God’s deliverance of his people from Egypt was an act of self-revelation in that it displayed his power and his commitment to his promises.

[21:10]  ³⁷ tn Heb “Or shall we rejoice, scepter of my son, it despises every tree.” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned just before this. Alternatively, the line may be understood as “let us not rejoice, O tribe of my son; it despises every tree.” The same word in Hebrew may be either “rod,” “scepter,” or “tribe.” The word sometimes translated as “or” or taken as an interrogative particle may be a negative particle. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:672, n. 79.

[33:15]  ⁴¹ tn Heb “the wicked one.”

[33:15]  ⁴² tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”

[48:20]  ⁴⁵ tn Heb “twenty-five thousand cubits” (i.e., 13.125 kilometers).