Ezekiel 16:8

16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing¹ that you had reached the age for love.² I spread my cloak³ over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.

Ezekiel 32:25

32:25 Among the dead they have made a bed for her, along with all her hordes around her grave.⁴ All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword, for their terror had spread in the land of the living. They bear their shame along with those who descend to the pit; they are placed among the dead.

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me⁵ the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord⁶ opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived⁷ in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.⁸

Ezekiel 38:8

38:8 After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come to a land restored from the ravages of war,⁹ with many peoples gathered on the mountains of Israel that had long been in ruins. Its people¹⁰ were brought out from the peoples, and all of them will be living securely.

¹tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.

²tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.

³tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).

⁴tn Heb “around him her graves,” but the expression is best emended to read “around her grave” (see vv. 23-24).

⁵tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

⁶tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁷tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

⁸sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

⁹tn Heb “from the sword.”

¹⁰tn Heb “it.”