Ezekiel 3:18

3:18 When I say to the wicked, “You will certainly die,” 1  and you do not warn him – you do not speak out to warn the wicked to turn from his wicked deed and wicked lifestyle so that he may live – that wicked person will die for his iniquity, 2  but I will hold you accountable for his death. 3 

Ezekiel 3:20

3:20 “When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I set an obstacle 4  before him, he will die. If you have not warned him, he will die for his sin. The righteous deeds he performed will not be considered, but I will hold you accountable for his death.

Ezekiel 7:9

7:9 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 5  you. For your behavior I will hold you accountable, 6  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who is striking you. 7 

Ezekiel 7:19

7:19 They will discard their silver in the streets, and their gold will be treated like filth. 8  Their silver and gold will not be able to deliver them on the day of the Lord’s fury. 9  They will not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs because their wealth 10  was the obstacle leading to their iniquity. 11 

Ezekiel 13:19

13:19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people 12  who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!

Ezekiel 16:43

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, 13  declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?

Ezekiel 18:20

18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. A son will not suffer 14  for his father’s iniquity, and a father will not suffer 15  for his son’s iniquity; the righteous person will be judged according to his righteousness, and the wicked person according to his wickedness. 16 

Ezekiel 20:21

20:21 “‘But the children 17  rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out (the one who obeys 18  them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out 19  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 20:39

20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, 20  if you will not listen to me. 21  But my holy name will not be profaned 22  again by your sacrifices 23  and your idols.

Ezekiel 34:8

34:8 As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, my sheep have become prey and have become food for all the wild beasts. There was no shepherd, and my shepherds did not search for my flock, but fed themselves and did not feed my sheep,

Ezekiel 46:18

46:18 The prince will not take away any of the people’s inheritance by oppressively removing them from their property. He will give his sons an inheritance from his own possessions so that my people will not be scattered, each from his own property.’”

1 sn Even though the infinitive absolute is used to emphasize the warning, the warning is still implicitly conditional, as the following context makes clear.

2 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.”

3 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).

4 tn Or “stumbling block.” The Hebrew term refers to an obstacle in the road in Lev 19:14.

5 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.

6 tn Heb “According to your behavior I will place on you.”

7 tn The MT lacks “you.” It has been added for clarification.

8 tn The Hebrew term can refer to menstrual impurity. The term also occurs at the end of v. 20.

9 sn Compare Zeph 1:18.

10 tn Heb “it.” Apparently the subject is the silver and gold mentioned earlier (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:102).

11 tn The “stumbling block of their iniquity” is a unique phrase of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezek 14:3, 4, 7; 18:30; 44:12).

12 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”

13 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”

14 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

15 tn Heb “lift up, bear.”

16 tn Heb “the righteousness of the righteous one will be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked one will be upon him.”

17 tn Heb “sons.”

18 tn Or “carries them out.”

19 tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

20 sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.

21 tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.

22 sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.

23 tn Or “gifts.”