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 7:4

7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare 2  you. 3  For I will hold you responsible for your behavior, 4  and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices. 5  Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 8:18

8:18 Therefore I will act with fury! My eye will not pity them nor will I spare 6  them. When they have shouted in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 11:12

11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”

Ezekiel 12:2

12:2 “Son of man, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house. 7  They have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear, but do not hear, 8  because they are a rebellious house.

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 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 9  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 10 

Ezekiel 17:10

17:10 Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper?

Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it?

Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

Ezekiel 18:7

18:7 does not oppress anyone, but gives the debtor back whatever was given in pledge, 11  does not commit robbery, 12  but gives his bread to the hungry and clothes the naked,

Ezekiel 18:17

18:17 refrains from wrongdoing, 13  does not engage in usury or charge interest, carries out my regulations and follows my statutes. He will not die for his father’s iniquity; 14  he will surely live.

Ezekiel 24:13

24:13 You mix uncleanness with obscene conduct. 15 

I tried to cleanse you, 16  but you are not clean.

You will not be cleansed from your uncleanness 17 

until I have exhausted my anger on you.

Ezekiel 47:5

47:5 Again he measured 1,750 feet and it was a river I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed.

1 tn Heb “the righteous man.”

2 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.

3 tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

4 tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

5 tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

6 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.

7 sn The book of Ezekiel frequently refers to the Israelites as a rebellious house (Ezek 2:5, 6, 8; 3:9, 26-27; 12:2-3, 9, 25; 17:12; 24:3).

8 sn This verse is very similar to Isa 6:9-10.

9 tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

10 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

11 tn Heb “restores to the debtor his pledge.” The root occurs in Exod 22:25 in reference to restoring a man’s garment as a pledge before nightfall.

12 tn The Hebrew term refers to seizure of property, usually by the rich (Isa 3:14; 10:2; Mic 2:2 [see Lev 5:21, 22]).

13 tc This translation follows the LXX. The MT reads “restrains his hand from the poor,” which makes no sense here.

14 tn Or “in his father’s punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 18, 19, 20; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment for iniquity.”

15 tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”

16 tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.

17 tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”