Ezekiel 4:3
4:3 Then for your part take an iron frying pan 1 and set it up as an iron wall between you and the city. Set your face toward it. It is to be under siege; you are to besiege it. This is a sign 2 for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 21:22
21:22 Into his right hand 3 comes the portent for Jerusalem – to set up battering rams, to give the signal 4 for slaughter, to shout out the battle cry, 5 to set up battering rams against the gates, to erect a siege ramp, to build a siege wall.
1 tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.
2 tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.
3 tn Or “on the right side,” i.e., the omen mark on the right side of the liver.
4 tn Heb “to open the mouth” for slaughter.
5 tn Heb “to raise up a voice in a battle cry.”