Ezekiel 5:10

5:10 Therefore fathers will eat their sons within you, Jerusalem, 1  and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you, and I will scatter any survivors 2  to the winds. 3 

Ezekiel 10:6

10:6 When the Lord 4  commanded the man dressed in linen, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man 5  went in and stood by one of the wheels. 6 

Ezekiel 11:19

11:19 I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them; 7  I will remove the hearts of stone from their bodies 8  and I will give them tender hearts, 9 

Ezekiel 22:3

22:3 Then say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), 10  and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Ezekiel 22:11-12

22:11 One 11  commits an abominable act with his neighbor’s wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates 12  his sister – his father’s daughter 13  – within you. 22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 14  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 15  declares the sovereign Lord. 16 

Ezekiel 28:23

28:23 I will send a plague into the city 17  and bloodshed into its streets;

the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it 18  from every side.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 30:6

30:6 “‘This is what the Lord says:

Egypt’s supporters will fall;

her confident pride will crumble. 19 

From Migdol to Syene 20  they will die by the sword within her,

declares the sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 30:18

30:18 In Tahpanhes the day will be dark 21 

when I break the yoke of Egypt there.

Her confident pride will cease within her;

a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.

Ezekiel 36:26

36:26 I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will remove the heart of stone 22  from your body and give you a heart of flesh. 23 

Ezekiel 40:16

40:16 There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees. 24 

1 tn In context “you” refers to the city of Jerusalem. To make this clear for the modern reader, “Jerusalem” has been supplied in the translation in apposition to “you.”

sn This cannibalism would occur as a result of starvation due to the city being besieged. It is one of the judgments threatened for a covenant law violation (Lev 26:29; see also Deut 28:53; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Zech 11:9).

2 tn Heb “all of your survivors.”

3 tn Heb “to every wind.”

4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man dressed in linen) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Heb “the wheel.”

7 tc The MT reads “you”; many Hebrew mss along with the LXX and other ancient versions read “within them.”

8 tn Heb “their flesh.”

9 tn Heb “heart of flesh.”

10 tn Heb “her time”; this refers to the time of impending judgment (see the note on “doom” in v. 4).

11 tn Heb “a man.”

12 tn The verb is the same one used in verse 10b and suggests forcible sexual violation of the woman.

13 sn Sexual relations with one’s half-sister may be primarily in view here. See Lev 18:9; 20:17.

14 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

15 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.

16 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

17 tn Heb “into it”; the referent of the feminine pronoun has been specified in the translation for clarity.

18 tn Heb “by a sword against it.”

19 tn Heb “come down.”

20 sn Syene is known as Aswan today.

21 sn In Zeph 1:15 darkness is associated with the day of the Lord.

22 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is stubborn and unresponsive (see 1 Sam 25:37). In Rabbinic literature a “stone” was associated with an evil inclination (b. Sukkah 52a).

23 sn That is, a heart which symbolizes a will that is responsive and obedient to God.

24 sn Decorative palm trees were also a part of Solomon’s temple (1 Kgs 6:29, 32, 35).