Ezekiel 14:8

14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword ¹  and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:13

14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, ²  cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

Ezekiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; ³  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. ⁴ 

Ezekiel 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 21:3-4

21:3 and say to them, ⁵  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, ⁶  I am against you. ⁷  I will draw my sword ⁸  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. ⁹  21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone ¹⁰  from the south ¹¹  to the north.

Ezekiel 37:11

37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

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¹ tn Heb “proverbs.”

² tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”

³ tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

⁴ sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

⁵ tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

⁶ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁷ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

⁸ sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

⁹ sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

¹⁰ tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

¹¹ tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.