4:4 “Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity 1 of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.
19:10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, 2 planted by water.
It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.
1 tn Or “punishment” (also in vv. 5, 6).
2 tc The Hebrew text reads “in your blood,” but most emend to “in your vineyard,” assuming a ב-כ (beth-kaph) confusion. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:284. Another attractive emendation assumes a faulty word division and yields the reading “like a vine full of tendrils, which/because…”; see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:607, n. 68.
3 sn The location is mentioned in Judg 11:33.