Ezekiel 5:1

5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 1  Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 2  Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.

Ezekiel 16:4

16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 3  you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 4 

Ezekiel 26:10

26:10 He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. 5  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. 6 

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

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

3 tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).

4 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.

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

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