Ezekiel 5:17

5:17 I will send famine and wild beasts against you and they will take your children from you. ¹  Plague and bloodshed will overwhelm you, ²  and I will bring a sword against you. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Ezekiel 7:24

7:24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries ³  will be desecrated.

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 11:7

11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped ⁷  in the midst of the city ⁸  are the meat, and this city ⁹  is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. ¹⁰ 

Ezekiel 16:39

16:39 I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

Ezekiel 22:12

22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; ¹¹  you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, ¹²  declares the sovereign Lord. ¹³ 

Ezekiel 22:25

22:25 Her princes ¹⁴  within her are like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they have devoured lives. They take away riches and valuable things; they have made many women widows ¹⁵  within it.

Ezekiel 23:29

23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, ¹⁶  and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct. ¹⁷ 

Ezekiel 24:16

24:16 “Son of man, realize that I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you with a jolt, ¹⁸  but you must not mourn or weep or shed tears.

Ezekiel 25:4

25:4 So take note, ¹⁹  I am about to make you slaves of ²⁰  the tribes ²¹  of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Ezekiel 25:16

25:16 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note, I am about to stretch out my hand against the Philistines. I will kill ²²  the Cherethites ²³  and destroy those who remain on the seacoast.

Ezekiel 26:7

26:7 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that ²⁴  I am about to bring King Nebuchadrezzar ²⁵  of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, and horsemen, an army and hordes of people.

Ezekiel 33:2

33:2 “Son of man, speak to your people, ²⁶  and say to them, ‘Suppose I bring a sword against the land, and the people of the land take one man from their borders and make him their watchman.

Ezekiel 37:21

37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.

Ezekiel 38:14

38:14 “Therefore, prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day when my people Israel are living securely, you will take notice ²⁷ 

Ezekiel 43:20

43:20 You will take some of its blood, and place it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all around; you will cleanse it and make atonement for it. ²⁸ 

Ezekiel 45:18

45:18 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.

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¹ tn Heb “will bereave you.”

² tn Heb “will pass through you.” This threat recalls the warning of Lev 26:22, 25 and Deut 32:24-25.

³ sn Or “their holy places” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).

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 tn Heb “placed.”

⁸ tn Heb “in its midst.”

⁹ tn Heb “she/it.” See v. 3.

¹⁰ tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).

¹¹ tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.

¹² 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.

¹³ tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.

¹⁴ tn Heb “a conspiracy of her prophets is in her midst.” The LXX reads “whose princes” rather than “a conspiracy of prophets.” The prophets are mentioned later in the paragraph (v. 28). If one follows the LXX in verse 25, then five distinct groups are mentioned in vv. 25-29: princes, priests, officials, prophets, and the people of the land. For a defense of the Septuagintal reading, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:720, n. 4.

¹⁵ tn Heb “her widows they have multiplied.” The statement alludes to their murderous acts.

¹⁶ tn The Hebrew term means “labor,” but by extension it can also refer to that for which one works.

¹⁷ tn Heb “The nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, and your obscene conduct and your harlotry.”

¹⁸ tn Heb “a strike.”

¹⁹ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates being aware of or taking notice of something and has been translated here with a verb (so also throughout the chapter).

²⁰ tn Heb “Look I am about to give you for a possession to.”

²¹ tn Heb “sons.”

²² tn In Hebrew the verb “and I will cut off” sounds like its object, “the Cherethites,” and draws attention to the statement.

²³ sn This is a name for the Philistines, many of whom migrated to Palestine from Crete.

²⁴ tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something.

²⁵ tn Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an an “r” rather than an “n.”

²⁶ tn Heb “sons of your people.”

²⁷ tn The Hebrew text is framed as a rhetorical question: “will you not take notice?”

²⁸ sn Note the similar language in Lev 16:18.