Ezekiel 32:18
32:18 “Son of man, wail 1 over the horde of Egypt. Bring it down; 2 bring 3 her 4 and the daughters of powerful nations down to the lower parts of the earth, along with those who descend to the pit.
Ezekiel 34:6
34:6 My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.
Ezekiel 38:9
38:9 You will advance; 5 you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.
Ezekiel 38:12
38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack 6 the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center 7 of the earth.”
Ezekiel 39:18
39:18 You will eat the flesh of warriors 8 and drink the blood of the princes of the earth – the rams, lambs, goats, and bulls, all of them fattened animals of Bashan.
1 tn The Hebrew verb is used as a response to death (Jer 9:17-19; Amos 5:16).
2 sn Through this prophetic lament given by God himself, the prophet activates the judgment described therein. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:217, and L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:136-37.
3 tn Heb “Bring him down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the earth below.” The verb “bring down” appears in the Hebrew text only once. Because the verb takes several objects here, the repetition of the verb in the translation improves the English style.
4 tn This apparently refers to personified Egypt.
5 tn Heb “go up.”
6 tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”
7 tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”
8 sn See Rev 19:17-18.