Ezekiel 13:10

13:10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying, “All is well,” ¹  when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, ²  they coat it with whitewash.

Ezekiel 17:5

17:5 He took one of the seedlings ³  of the land,

placed it in a cultivated plot; ⁴ 

a shoot by abundant water,

like a willow he planted it.

Ezekiel 20:29

20:29 So I said to them, What is this high place you go to?’” (So it is called “High Place” ⁵  to this day.)

Ezekiel 26:4-5

26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil ⁶  from her and make her a bare rock. 26:5 She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city ⁷  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it ⁸  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 32:29

32:29 “Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.

Ezekiel 35:13

35:13 You exalted yourselves against me with your speech ⁹  and hurled many insults against me ¹⁰  – I have heard them all!

Ezekiel 38:14

38:14 “Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will take notice ¹¹ 

Ezekiel 42:20

42:20 He measured it on all four sides. It had a wall around it, 875 feet long and 875 feet wide, to separate the holy and common places.

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¹ tn Or “peace.”

² tn The Hebrew word only occurs here in the Bible. According to L. C. Allen (Ezekiel [WBC], 1:202-3) it is also used in the Mishnah of a wall of rough stones without mortar. This fits the context here comparing the false prophetic messages to a nice coat of whitewash on a structurally unstable wall.

³ tn Heb “took of the seed of the land.” For the vine imagery, “seedling” is a better translation, though in its subsequent interpretation the “seed” refers to Zedekiah through its common application to offspring.

⁴ tn Heb “a field for seed.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew word (“Bamah”) means “high place.”

⁶ tn Or “debris.”

⁷ tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

⁹ tn Heb “your mouth.”

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ tn The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”