27:35 All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you,
and their kings are horribly afraid – their faces are troubled.
28:19 All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you;
you have become terrified and will be no more.’”
31:9 I made it beautiful with its many branches;
all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
38:7 “‘Be ready and stay ready, you and all your companies assembled around you, and be a guard for them. 7
1 tn Or “like a wheel at right angles to another wheel.” Some envision concentric wheels here, while others propose “a globe-like structure in which two wheels stand at right angles” (L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:33-34). See also 1:16.
2 tn Heb “he saw.”
3 tn Heb “set your face against.”
4 tn Heb “behold it is coming.”
5 tn Heb “your mouth.”
6 tn Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6, where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.
7 tn The second person singular verbal and pronominal forms in the Hebrew text indicate that Gog is addressed here.
8 tn Heb “made.”
9 tc The MT reads “jambs” which does not make sense in context. Supposing a confusion of yod for vav, the text may be emended to read “porch.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:518.
10 tn Heb “sixty cubits” (i.e., 31.5 meters).
11 tn The word “high” is not in the Hebrew text but is supplied for sense.
12 tn Heb “twenty cubits” (i.e., 10.5 meters).