Ezekiel 3:3

3:3 He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you.” So I ate it,¹ and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

Ezekiel 3:26

3:26 I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to reprove² them, for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 5:11

5:11 “Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare³ you.

Ezekiel 6:11

6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence.⁴

Ezekiel 7:3-4

7:3 The end is now upon you, and I will release my anger against you; I will judge⁵ you according to your behavior,⁶ I will hold you accountable for⁷ all your abominable practices. 7:4 My eye will not pity you; I will not spare⁸ you.⁹ For I will hold you responsible for your behavior,¹⁰ and you will suffer the consequences of your abominable practices.¹¹ Then you will know that I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 7:8

7:8 Soon now I will pour out my rage¹² on you; I will fully vent my anger against you. I will judge you according to your behavior. I will hold you accountable for all your abominable practices.

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;¹³ you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets.¹⁴

Ezekiel 16:7

16:7 I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare.

Ezekiel 16:27

16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 16:31

16:31 When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.¹⁵

Ezekiel 16:33

16:33 All prostitutes receive payment,¹⁶ but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!

Ezekiel 16:61

16:61 Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.

Ezekiel 20:43

20:43 And there you will remember your conduct¹⁷ and all your deeds by which you defiled yourselves. You will despise yourselves¹⁸ because of all the evil deeds you have done.

Ezekiel 23:27

23:27 So I will put an end to your obscene conduct and your prostitution which you have practiced in the land of Egypt.¹⁹ You will not seek their help²⁰ or remember Egypt anymore.

Ezekiel 24:14

24:14 “‘I the Lord have spoken; judgment²¹ is coming and I will act! I will not relent, or show pity, or be sorry!²² I will judge you²³ according to your conduct²⁴ and your deeds, declares the sovereign Lord.’”

Ezekiel 25:4

25:4 So take note,²⁵ I am about to make you slaves of²⁶ the tribes²⁷ of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 26:15

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Ezekiel 28:7

28:7 I am about to bring foreigners²⁸ against you, the most terrifying of nations.

They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom,²⁹

and they will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 37:12

37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 38:4

38:4 I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them fully armed, a great company with shields of different types,³⁰ all of them armed with swords.

Ezekiel 43:27

43:27 When the prescribed period is over,³¹ on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings;³² I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Ezekiel 44:30

44:30 The first of all the first fruits and all contributions of any kind³³ will be for the priests; you will also give to the priest the first portion of your dough, so that a blessing may rest on your house.

¹tc Heb “I ate,” a first common singular preterite plus paragogic he (ה). The ancient versions read “I ate it,” which is certainly the meaning in the context, and indicates they read the he as a third feminine singular pronominal suffix. The Masoretes typically wrote a mappiq in the he for the pronominal suffix but apparently missed this one.

sn I ate it. A similar idea of consuming God’s word is found in Jer 15:16 and Rev 10:10, where it is also compared to honey and may be specifically reminiscent of this text.

²tn Heb “you will not be to them a reprover.” In Isa 29:21 and Amos 5:10 “a reprover” issued rebuke at the city gate.

³tn 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.

⁴sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).

⁵tn Or “punish” (cf. BDB 1047 s.v. שָׁפַט 3.c).

⁶tn Heb “ways.”

⁷tn Heb “I will place on you.”

⁸tn 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.

⁹tn The pronoun “you” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied.

¹⁰tn “I will set your behavior on your head.”

¹¹tn Heb “and your abominable practices will be among you.”

¹²tn The expression “to pour out rage” also occurs in Ezek 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:31; 30:15; 36:18.

¹³tn 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).

¹⁴sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

¹⁵tn The Hebrew term, which also occurs in vv. 34 and 41 of this chapter, always refers to the payment of a prostitute (Deut 23:19; Isa 23:17; Hos 9:1; Mic 1:7).

¹⁶tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

¹⁷tn Heb “ways.”

¹⁸tn Heb “loathe yourselves in your faces.”

¹⁹tn Heb “I will cause your obscene conduct to cease from you and your harlotry from the land of Egypt.”

²⁰tn Heb “lift your eyes to them.”

²¹tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

²²tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”

²³tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”

²⁴tn Heb “ways.”

²⁵tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

²⁶tn Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”

²⁷tn Heb “sons.”

²⁸sn This is probably a reference to the Babylonians.

²⁹tn Heb “they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.”

³⁰sn The Hebrew text mentions two different types of shields here.

³¹tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”

³²sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).

³³tn Heb has in addition “from your contributions,” a repetition unnecessary in English.