Ezekiel 21:29

21:29 while seeing false visions for you

and reading lying omens for you 1  –

to place that sword 2  on the necks of the profane wicked, 3 

whose day has come,

the time of final punishment.

Ezekiel 22:26

22:26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, 4  or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore 5  my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.

Ezekiel 43:7

43:7 He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of my throne 6  and the place for the soles of my feet, 7  where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die. 8 

1 tn Heb “in the seeing concerning you falsehood, in divining concerning you a lie.” This probably refers to the attempts of the Ammonites to ward off judgment through prophetic visions and divination.

2 tn Heb “you”; the referent (the sword mentioned in v. 28) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

3 sn The second half of the verse appears to state that the sword of judgment would fall upon the wicked, despite their efforts to prevent it.

4 tn Or “between the consecrated and the common.”

5 tn Heb “hide their eyes from.” The idiom means to disregard or ignore something or someone (see Lev 20:4; 1 Sam 12:3; Prov 28:27; Isa 1:15).

6 sn God’s throne is mentioned in Isa 6:1; Jer 3:17.

7 sn See 1 Chr 28:2; Ps 99:5; 132:7; Isa 60:13; Lam 2:1.

8 tn Heb “by their corpses in their death.” But the term normally translated “corpses” is better understood here as a reference to funeral pillars or funerary offerings. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:583-85, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:257.