Genesis 8:9

8:9 The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered ¹  the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah ²  in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, ³  and brought it back into the ark. ⁴ 

Isaiah 57:21

57:21 There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Ezekiel 5:12-17

5:12 A third of your people will die of plague or be overcome by the famine within you. ⁵  A third of your people will fall by the sword surrounding you, ⁶  and a third I will scatter to the winds. I will unleash a sword behind them. 5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. ⁷  Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy ⁸  when I have fully vented my rage against them.

5:14 “I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by. 5:15 You will be ⁹  an object of scorn and taunting, ¹⁰  a prime example of destruction ¹¹  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. ¹²  I, the Lord, have spoken! 5:16 I will shoot against them deadly, ¹³  destructive ¹⁴  arrows of famine, ¹⁵  which I will shoot to destroy you. ¹⁶  I will prolong a famine on you and will remove the bread supply. ¹⁷  5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ¹⁸  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ¹⁹  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 20:32-35

20:32 “‘What you plan ²⁰  will never happen. You say, “We will be ²¹  like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.” ²²  20:33 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, ²³  and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you. 20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage! 20:35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Amos 9:4

9:4 Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, ²⁴ 

from there ²⁵  I will command the sword to kill them.

I will not let them out of my sight;

they will experience disaster, not prosperity.” ²⁶ 

Amos 9:9-10

9:9 “For look, I am giving a command

and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations.

It will resemble a sieve being shaken,

when not even a pebble falls to the ground. ²⁷ 

9:10 All the sinners among my people will die by the sword –

the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’

[8:9]  ¹ tn The words “still covered” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:9]  ² tn Heb “him”; the referent (Noah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:9]  ³ tn Heb “it”; the referent (the dove) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[8:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he brought it to himself to the ark.”

[5:12]  ⁵ sn The judgment of plague and famine comes from the covenant curse (Lev 26:25-26). As in v. 10, the city of Jerusalem is figuratively addressed here.

[5:12]  ⁶ sn Judgment by plague, famine, and sword occurs in Jer 21:9; 27:13; Ezek 6:11, 12; 7:15.

[5:13]  ⁷ tn Or “calm myself.”

[5:13]  ⁸ tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.

[5:15]  ⁹ tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

[5:15]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

[5:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

[5:15]  ¹² tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

[5:16]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew word carries the basic idea of “bad, displeasing, injurious,” but when used of weapons has the nuance “deadly” (see Ps 144:10).

[5:16]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “which are/were to destroy.”

[5:16]  ¹⁵ tn The language of this verse may have been influenced by Deut 32:23.

[5:16]  ¹⁶ tn Or “which were to destroy those whom I will send to destroy you” (cf. NASB).

[5:16]  ¹⁷ tn Heb, “break the staff of bread.” The bread supply is compared to a staff that one uses for support. See 4:16, as well as the covenant curse in Lev 26:26.

[5:17]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

[5:17]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

[20:32]  ²⁰ tn Heb “what comes upon your mind.”

[20:32]  ²¹ tn The Hebrew could also read: “Let us be.”

[20:32]  ²² tn Heb “serving wood and stone.”

[20:33]  ²³ sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).

[9:4]  ²⁴ tn Heb “Even if they go into captivity before their enemies.”

[9:4]  ²⁵ tn Or perhaps simply, “there,” if the מ (mem) prefixed to the adverb is dittographic (note the preceding word ends in mem).

[9:4]  ²⁶ tn Heb “I will set my eye on them for disaster, not good.”

[9:9]  ²⁷ tn Heb “like being shaken with a sieve, and a pebble does not fall to the ground.” The meaning of the Hebrew word צְרוֹר (tsÿror), translated “pebble,” is unclear here. In 2 Sam 17:13 it appears to refer to a stone. If it means “pebble,” then the sieve described in v. 6 allows the grain to fall into a basket while retaining the debris and pebbles. However, if one interprets צְרוֹר as a “kernel of grain” (cf. NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT) then the sieve is constructed to retain the grain and allow the refuse and pebbles to fall to the ground. In either case, the simile supports the last statement in v. 8 by making it clear that God will distinguish between the righteous (the grain) and the wicked (the pebbles) when he judges, and will thereby preserve a remnant in Israel. Only the sinners will be destroyed (v. 10).