Ezekiel 5:4

5:4 Again, take more of them and throw them into the fire, 1  and burn them up. From there a fire will spread to all the house of Israel.

Ezekiel 6:4

6:4 Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols. 2 

Ezekiel 18:31

18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! 3  Why should you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 27:30

27:30 They will lament loudly 4  over you and cry bitterly.

They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes; 5 

1 tn Heb “into the midst of” (so KJV, ASV). This phrase has been left untranslated for stylistic reasons.

2 tn Thirty-nine of the forty-eight biblical occurrences of this Hebrew word are found in the book of Ezekiel.

sn This verse is probably based on Lev 26:30 in which God forecasts that he will destroy their high places, cut off their incense altars, and set their corpses by the corpses of their idols.

3 sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.

4 tn Heb “make heard over you with their voice.”

5 tn Note a similar expression to “roll in the ashes” in Mic 1:10.