Ezekiel 4:12

4:12 And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.” ¹ 

Ezekiel 4:15

4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”

Ezekiel 11:9

11:9 ‘But I will take you out of the city. ²  And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

Ezekiel 25:6

25:6 For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn ³  over the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 25:10

25:10 I will hand it over, ⁴  along with the Ammonites, ⁵  to the tribes ⁶  of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

Ezekiel 27:30-32

27:30 They will lament loudly ⁷  over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; ⁸ 

27:31 they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth,

and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning. ⁹ 

27:32 As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:

“Who was like Tyre, like a tower ¹⁰  in the midst of the sea?”

Ezekiel 32:8

32:8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you,

and I will darken your land,

declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 32:31

32:31 “Pharaoh will see them and be consoled over all his hordes who were killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his army, declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 34:23

34:23 I will set one shepherd over them, and he will feed them – namely, my servant David. ¹¹  He will feed them and will be their shepherd.

Ezekiel 37:8

37:8 As I watched, I saw ¹²  tendons on them, then muscles appeared, ¹³  and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath ¹⁴  in them.

Ezekiel 37:24

37:24 “‘My servant David will be king over them; there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow ¹⁵  my regulations and carefully observe my statutes. ¹⁶ 

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¹ sn Human waste was to remain outside the camp of the Israelites according to Deut 23:15.

² tn Heb “its midst.”

³ tn Heb “with all your scorn in (the) soul.”

⁴ tn Heb “I will give it for a possession.”

⁵ tn Heb “the sons of Ammon” (twice in this verse).

⁶ tn Heb “the sons.”

⁷ tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

⁸ tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.

⁹ tn Heb “and they will weep concerning you with bitterness of soul, (with) bitter mourning.”

¹⁰ tn As it stands, the meaning of the Hebrew text is unclear. The translation follows the suggestion of M. Dahood, “Accadian-Ugaritic dmt in Ezekiel 27:32,” Bib 45 (1964): 83-84. Several other explanations and emendations have been offered. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:83, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:85-86, for a list of options.

¹¹ sn The messianic king is here called “David” (see Jer 30:9 and Hos 3:5, as well as Isa 11:1 and Mic 5:2) because he will fulfill the Davidic royal ideal depicted in the prophets and royal psalms (see Ps 2, 89).

¹² tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

¹³ tn Heb “came up.”

¹⁴ tn Or “spirit.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “walk [in].”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and my statutes they will guard and they will do them.”