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 5:15

5:15 You will be 4  an object of scorn and taunting, 5  a prime example of destruction 6  among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. 7  I, the Lord, have spoken!

Ezekiel 16:41

16:41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. 8 

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 tc This reading is supported by the versions and by the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QEzek). Most Masoretic Hebrew mss read “it will be,” but if the final he (ה) is read as a mater lectionis, as it can be with the second masculine singular perfect, then they are in agreement. In either case the subject refers to Jerusalem.

5 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. A related verb means “revile, taunt” (see Ps 44:16).

6 tn Heb “discipline and devastation.” These words are omitted in the Old Greek. The first term pictures Jerusalem as a recipient or example of divine discipline; the second depicts her as a desolate ruin (see Ezek 6:14).

7 tn Heb “in anger and in fury and in rebukes of fury.” The heaping up of synonyms emphasizes the degree of God’s anger.

8 tn The words “to your clients” are not in the Hebrew text but are implied.