17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.
I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.
I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.
I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”
29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your waterways;
you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. 1
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 2 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 3 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
32:4 I will leave you on the ground,
I will fling you on the open field,
I will allow 4 all the birds of the sky to settle 5 on you,
and I will permit 6 all the wild animals 7 to gorge themselves on you.
33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die 8 by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.
1 tc Some Hebrew
2 tn Or “he.”
3 tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.
4 tn Or “cause.”
5 tn Heb “live.”
6 tn Or “cause.”
7 tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.
8 tn Heb “fall.”
9 tn Heb “they will not carry.”
10 tn Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”