21:31 I will pour out my anger on you;
the fire of my fury I will blow on you.
I will hand you over to brutal men,
who are skilled in destruction.
23:28 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 10 I am about to deliver you over to 11 those whom you hate, to those with whom you were disgusted.
“‘How you have perished – you have vanished 13 from the seas,
O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! 14
26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging 15 waters overwhelm you,
30:12 I will dry up the waterways
and hand the land over to 16 evil men.
I will make the land and everything in it desolate by the hand of foreigners.
I, the Lord, have spoken!
32:3 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will throw my net over you 17 in the assembly of many peoples;
and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
1 tn Heb “through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem.”
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2 tn The word translated “mark” is in Hebrew the letter ת (tav). Outside this context the only other occurrence of the word is in Job 31:35. In ancient Hebrew script this letter was written like the letter X.
sn For a similar concept in the Bible, see Rev 7:2-4; 13:16; 14:9, 11; 20:4; 22:4.
3 tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the
4 tn The Hebrew term often refers to chariot wheels (Isa 28:28; Ezek 23:24; 26:10).
5 tc The LXX, Syriac, Vulgate, and Targum
6 tn Or “Babylonians” (NCV, NLT).
sn The Chaldeans were a group of people in the country south of Babylon from which Nebuchadnezzar came. The Chaldean dynasty his father established became the name by which the Babylonians are regularly referred to in the book of Jeremiah, while Jeremiah’s contemporary, Ezekiel, uses both terms.
7 sn He will not see it. This prediction was fulfilled in 2 Kgs 25:7 and Jer 52:11, which recount how Zedekiah was blinded before being deported to Babylon.
8 sn There he will die. This was fulfilled when King Zedekiah died in exile (Jer 52:11).
9 sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).
10 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
11 tn Heb “I am giving you into the hand of.”
12 tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”
13 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.
14 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).”
15 tn Heb “many.”
16 tn Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”
17 tn The expression “throw my net” is common in Ezekiel (12:13; 17:20; 19:8).
18 tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).
19 sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.
20 tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.
21 tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.
22 tn The term translated “harshness” is used to describe the oppression the Israelites suffered as slaves in Egypt (Exod 1:13).
23 tn The exact physiological meaning of the term is uncertain. In addition to v. 8, the term occurs only in Gen 32:33; Job 10:11; 40:17; and Jer 48:4.
24 tn Or “a spirit.”
25 sn Jeremiah also attested to the reuniting of the northern and southern kingdoms (Jer 3:12, 14; 31:2-6).
26 tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”
27 sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).