Ezekiel 20:33-34

20:33 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, ¹  and with an outpouring of rage, I will be king over you. 20:34 I will bring you out from the nations, and will gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm and with an outpouring of rage!

Ezekiel 29:21

29:21 On that day I will make Israel powerful, ²  and I will give you the right to be heard ³  among them. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 32:18

32:18 “Son of man, wail ⁴  over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; ⁵  bring ⁶  her ⁷  and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.

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¹ sn This phrase occurs frequently in Deuteronomy (Deut 4:34; 5:15; 7:19; 11:2; 26:8).

² tn Heb “I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel.” The horn is used as a figure for military power in the OT (Ps 92:10). A similar expression is made about the Davidic dynasty in Ps 132:17.

³ tn Heb “I will grant you an open mouth.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).

⁵ sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.

⁶ tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.

⁷ tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.