16:23 “‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord – 16:24 you built yourself a chamber 7 and put up a pavilion 8 in every public square.
16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 10 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
16:44 “‘Observe – everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”
21:6 “And you, son of man, groan with an aching heart 11 and bitterness; groan before their eyes.
“‘Your heart is proud 14 and you said, “I am a god; 15
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 16
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. 17
I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.
32:4 I will leave you on the ground,
I will fling you on the open field,
I will allow 18 all the birds of the sky to settle 19 on you,
and I will permit 20 all the wild animals 21 to gorge themselves on you.
47:21 “This is how you will divide this land for yourselves among the tribes of Israel.
1 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn The Hebrew term is found elsewhere in the OT only in Ezek 28:24.
sn Here thorns may be a figure for hostility (Ezek 28:24; Mic 7:4).
3 tn Heb “of their faces.”
4 sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.
5 tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and v. 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”
6 tn Heb “his blood I will seek from your hand.” The expression “seek blood from the hand” is equivalent to requiring the death penalty (2 Sam 4:11-12).
7 tn The Hebrew גֶּב (gev) may represent more than one word, each rare in the Old Testament. It may refer to a “mound” or to “rafters.” The LXX, Syriac, and Vulgate interpret this as a brothel.
8 tn Or “lofty place” (NRSV). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:229, and B. Lang, Frau Weisheit, 137.
9 sn Harlots suffered degradation when their nakedness was exposed (Jer 13:22, 26; Hos 2:12; Nah 3:5).
10 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
11 tn Heb “breaking loins.”
12 tn Heb “to make the ears hear.”
13 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
14 tn Heb “lifted up.”
sn See Prov 16:5.
15 tn Or “I am divine.”
16 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”
17 tc Some Hebrew
18 tn Or “cause.”
19 tn Heb “live.”
20 tn Or “cause.”
21 tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.
22 sn These verbs occur together in Gen 1:22, 28; 9:1.
23 tn Heb “your beginning.”
24 tn Heb “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and set your mind on.”
25 tn Heb “in order to show (it) to you.”
26 tn Heb “twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, fifteen shekels.”