5:7 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant 1 than the nations around you, 2 you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even 3 carried out the regulations of the nations around you!
11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little 4 sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note 11 that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives 12 like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.
16:8 “‘Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing 14 that you had reached the age for love. 15 I spread my cloak 16 over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
16:43 “‘Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, 18 declares the sovereign Lord. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices?
17:9 “‘Say to them: This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Will it prosper?
Will he not rip out its roots
and cause its fruit to rot 19 and wither?
All its foliage 20 will wither.
No strong arm or large army
will be needed to pull it out by its roots. 21
17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will take a sprig 22 from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. 23
I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;
I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose Israel I swore 24 to the descendants 25 of the house of Jacob and made myself known to them in the land of Egypt. I swore 26 to them, “I am the Lord your God.”
20:39 “‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Each of you go and serve your idols, 30 if you will not listen to me. 31 But my holy name will not be profaned 32 again by your sacrifices 33 and your idols. 20:40 For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them 34 in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.
“‘Your heart is proud 44 and you said, “I am a god; 45
I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –
yet you are a man and not a god,
though you think you are godlike. 46
“‘Look, I am against 47 you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,
the great monster 48 lying in the midst of its waterways,
who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” 49
30:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
I will destroy the idols,
and put an end to the gods of Memphis.
There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so I will make the land of Egypt fearful. 50
31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 51 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 52 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.
33:27 “This is what you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die 55 by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.
36:6 “Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.
36:22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation 59 which you profaned among the nations where you went. 36:23 I will magnify 60 my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the sovereign Lord, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
37:9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 61 – prophesy, son of man – and say to the breath: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”
39:17 “As for you, son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tell every kind of bird and every wild beast: ‘Assemble and come! Gather from all around to my slaughter 66 which I am going to make for you, a great slaughter on the mountains of Israel! You will eat flesh and drink blood.
43:18 Then he said to me: “Son of man, this is what the sovereign Lord says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it, 67
44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok 68 who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.
46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east 69 will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.
1 tn Traditionally this difficult form has been derived from a hypothetical root הָמוֹן (hamon), supposedly meaning “be in tumult/uproar,” but such a verb occurs nowhere else. It is more likely that it is to be derived from a root מָנוֹן (manon), meaning “disdain” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 1:52). A derivative from this root is used in Prov 29:21 of a rebellious servant. See HALOT 600 s.v. מָנוֹן.
2 sn You are more arrogant than the nations around you. Israel is accused of being worse than the nations in Ezek 16:27; 2 Kgs 21:11; Jer 2:11.
3 tc Some Hebrew
4 tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).
5 tn The Hebrew term may refer to the secret council of the
6 tn The reference here is probably to a civil list (as in Ezra 2:16; Neh 7:64) rather than to a “book of life” (Exod 32:32; Isa 4:3; Ps 69:29; Dan 12:1). This registry may have been established at the making of David’s census (2 Sam 24:2, 9).
7 sn The wristbands mentioned here probably represented magic bands or charms. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:413.
8 tn Heb “joints of the hands.” This may include the elbow and shoulder joints.
9 tn The Hebrew term occurs in the Bible only here and in v. 21. It has also been understood as a veil or type of head covering. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:414) suggests that given the context of magical devices, the expected parallel to the magical arm bands, and the meaning of this Hebrew root (סָפַח [safakh, “to attach” or “join”]), it may refer to headbands or necklaces on which magical amulets were worn.
10 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls” (three times in v. 18 and twice in v. 19).
11 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
12 tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”
13 tn Heb “in accordance with the multitude of his idols.”
14 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a participle.
15 tn See similar use of this term in Ezek 23:17; Prov 7:16; Song of Songs 4:10; 7:13.
16 tn Heb “wing” or “skirt.” The gesture symbolized acquiring a woman in early Arabia (similarly, see Deut 22:30; Ruth 3:9).
17 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
18 tn Heb “your way on (your) head I have placed.”
19 tn The Hebrew root occurs only here in the OT and appears to have the meaning of “strip off.” In application to fruit the meaning may be “cause to rot.”
20 tn Heb “all the טַרְפֵּי (tarpey) of branches.” The word טַרְפֵּי occurs only here in the Bible; its precise meaning is uncertain.
21 tn Or “there will be no strong arm or large army when it is pulled up by the roots.”
22 sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.
23 tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”
24 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
25 tn Heb “seed.”
26 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
27 tn Or “gifts.”
28 tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”
29 tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”
30 sn Compare the irony here to Amos 4:4 and Jer 44:25.
31 tn Heb “and after, if you will not listen to me.” The translation leaves out “and after” for smoothness. The text is difficult. M. Greenberg (Ezekiel [AB], 1:374) suggests that it may mean “but afterwards, if you will not listen to me…” with an unspoken threat.
32 sn A similar concept may be found in Lev 18:21; 20:3.
33 tn Or “gifts.”
34 tn Heb “all of it.”
35 tn Heb “every spirit will be dim.”
36 sn This expression depicts in a very vivid way how they will be overcome with fear. See the note on the same phrase in 7:17.
37 tn Heb “the pride of your strength” means “your strong pride.”
38 sn Heb “the delight of your eyes.” Just as Ezekiel was deprived of his beloved wife (v. 16, the “desire” of his “eyes”) so the Lord would be forced to remove the object of his devotion, the temple, which symbolized his close relationship to his covenant people.
39 tn Heb “the object of compassion of your soul.” The accentuation in the traditional Hebrew text indicates that the descriptive phrases (“the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life’s passion”) modify the preceding “my sanctuary.”
40 tn Heb “fall.”
41 tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”
42 tn Heb “fall.”
43 tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).
44 tn Heb “lifted up.”
sn See Prov 16:5.
45 tn Or “I am divine.”
46 tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”
47 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
48 tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew
49 sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.
50 tn Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”
51 tn Or “he.”
52 tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.
53 tn Heb “turn from his way.”
54 tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.
55 tn Heb “fall.”
56 tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the
57 tn Heb “I will cause them to cease from feeding sheep.”
58 tn Heb “lip of the tongue.”
59 sn In Ezek 20:22 God refrained from punishment for the sake of his holy name. Here God’s reputation is the basis for Israel’s restoration.
60 tn Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”
61 tn Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.
62 tn Heb “I will place them on it, that is, on the stick of Judah.”
63 sn The reunification of Israel and Judah is envisioned as well in Ezek 33:23, 29; Jer 3:18; 23:5-6; Hos 1:11; Amos 9:11.
64 tn Heb “they will not carry.”
65 tn Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”
66 tn Or “sacrifice” (so also in the rest of this verse).
67 sn For the “sprinkling of blood,” see Lev 1:5, 11; 8:19; 9:12.
68 sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).
69 sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).