Ezekiel 5:6

5:6 Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations 1  and the countries around her. 2  Indeed, they 3  have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

Ezekiel 16:49

16:49 “‘See here – this was the iniquity 4  of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help 5  the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 23:11

23:11 “Her sister Oholibah watched this, 6  but she became more corrupt in her lust than her sister had been, and her acts of prostitution were more numerous than those of her sister.

Ezekiel 26:2

26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 7  has said about Jerusalem, 8  ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 9  now that she 10  has been destroyed,’

Ezekiel 26:17

26:17 They will sing this lament over you: 11 

“‘How you have perished – you have vanished 12  from the seas,

O renowned city, once mighty in the sea,

she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! 13 

1 sn The nations are subject to a natural law according to Gen 9; see also Amos 1:3-2:3; Jonah 1:2.

2 tn Heb “she defied my laws, becoming wicked more than the nations, and [she defied] my statutes [becoming wicked] more than the countries around her.”

3 sn One might conclude that the subject of the plural verbs is the nations/countries, but the context (vv. 5-6a) indicates that the people of Jerusalem are in view. The text shifts from using the feminine singular (referring to personified Jerusalem) to the plural (referring to Jerusalem’s residents). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:73.

4 tn Or “guilt.”

5 tn Heb “strengthen the hand of.”

6 tn The word “this” is not in the original text.

7 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.

8 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

9 tn Heb “I will be filled.”

10 sn That is, Jerusalem.

11 tn Heb “and they will lift up over you a lament and they will say to you.”

12 tn Heb “O inhabitant.” The translation follows the LXX and understands a different Hebrew verb, meaning “cease,” behind the consonantal text. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:72, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:43.

13 tn Heb “she and her inhabitants who placed their terror to all her inhabitants.” The relationship of the final prepositional phrase to what precedes is unclear. The preposition probably has a specifying function here, drawing attention to Tyre’s inhabitants as the source of the terror mentioned prior to this. In this case, one might paraphrase verse 17b: “she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror; yes, her inhabitants (were the source of this terror).”