5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant 2 than the nations around you, 3 you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even 4 carried out the regulations of the nations around you!
16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 12 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
18:24 “But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die. 13
31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 19 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 20 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, 21 and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’
36:6 “Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.
42:13 Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests 25 who approach the Lord will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings – the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
1 tc The LXX reads “when it went, they went; when it stood, they stood.”
tn Heb “when they went, they went; when they stood, they stood.”
2 tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.
3 sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.
4 tc Some Hebrew
5 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.
6 sn Compare Zeph 1:18.
7 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).
8 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).
9 tn Apart from this context the Hebrew term occurs only in Gen 15:17 in reference to the darkness after sunset. It may mean twilight.
10 tn Or “land” (ASV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
11 sn See also Ezek 12:11, 24:24, 27.
12 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
13 tn Heb “because of them he will die.”
14 tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”
15 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.
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.
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.
18 tn The Hebrew verb is a prophetic perfect, emphasizing that the action is as good as done from the speaker’s perspective.
19 tn Or “he.”
20 tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.
21 tn Heb “(are) upon us.”
22 tn Heb “lip of the tongue.”
23 tn Heb “they will not carry.”
24 tn Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”
25 sn The priests are from the Zadokite family (Ezek 40:6; 44:15).
26 sn See Rev 22:1-2.