Ezekiel 3:21

3:21 However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he 1  does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life.”

Ezekiel 13:22

13:22 This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Ezekiel 16:51

16:51 Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. 2  You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

Ezekiel 21:3-4

21:3 and say to them, 3  ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 4  I am against you. 5  I will draw my sword 6  from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 7  21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone 8  from the south 9  to the north.

1 tn Heb “the righteous man.”

2 tn Or “you have multiplied your abominable deeds beyond them.”

3 tn Heb “the land of Israel.”

4 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.

5 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

6 sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.

7 sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.

8 tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).

9 tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.