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 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. ³  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. ⁴  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form ⁵  of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind ⁶  lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem ⁷  by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue ⁸  which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 10:19

10:19 The cherubim spread ⁹  their wings, and they rose up from the earth ¹⁰  while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ¹¹  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ¹² 

Ezekiel 12:3

12:3 “Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, ¹³  although they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 17:24

17:24 All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord.

I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree.

I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout.

I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Ezekiel 26:10

26:10 He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. ¹⁴  Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls. ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ¹⁶ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

Ezekiel 32:2

32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“‘You were like a lion ¹⁷  among the nations,

but you are a monster in the seas;

you thrash about in your streams,

stir up the water with your feet,

and muddy your ¹⁸  streams.

Ezekiel 33:10

33:10 “And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, ¹⁹  and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’

Ezekiel 43:18

43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, ²⁰ 

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¹ tn Or “a griddle,” that is, some sort of plate for cooking.

² tn That is, a symbolic object lesson.

³ tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.

⁴ tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”

⁵ tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

⁶ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁷ map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁸ tn Or “image.”

⁹ tn Heb “lifted.”

¹⁰ tn Or “the ground” (NIV, NCV).

¹¹ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

¹² sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

¹³ tn Heb “see.” This plays on the uses of “see” in v. 2. They will see his actions with their eyes and perhaps they will “see” with their mind, that is, understand or grasp the point.

¹⁴ tn Heb “From the abundance of his horses he will cover you (with) their dust.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “like those who enter a breached city.”

¹⁶ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”

¹⁷ tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).

¹⁸ tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”

¹⁹ tn Heb “(are) upon us.”

²⁰ sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.