Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize ¹  how I was crushed by their unfaithful ²  heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves ³  because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 8:17

8:17 He said to me, “Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose! ⁴ 

Ezekiel 11:1

The Fall of Jerusalem

11:1 A wind ⁵  lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the Lord’s temple that faces the east. There, at the entrance of the gate, I noticed twenty-five men. Among them I saw Jaazaniah son of Azzur and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, officials of the people. ⁶ 

Ezekiel 14:7

14:7 For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

Ezekiel 20:3

20:3 “Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, ⁷  declares the sovereign Lord.’

Ezekiel 20:8

20:8 But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, ⁸  nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out ⁹  my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:31

20:31 When you present your sacrifices ¹⁰  – when you make your sons pass through the fire – you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, ¹¹  O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will not allow you to seek me! ¹² 

Ezekiel 33:22

33:22 Now the hand of the Lord had been on me ¹³  the evening before the refugee reached me, but the Lord ¹⁴  opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived ¹⁵  in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak. ¹⁶ 

Ezekiel 40:1

Vision of the New Temple

40:1 In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city ¹⁷  was struck down, on this very day, ¹⁸  the hand ¹⁹  of the Lord was on me, and he brought me there. ²⁰ 

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¹ tn The words “they will realize” are not in the Hebrew text; they are added here for stylistic reasons since this clause assumes the previous verb “to remember” or “to take into account.”

² tn Heb “how I was broken by their adulterous heart.” The image of God being “broken” is startling, but perfectly natural within the metaphorical framework of God as offended husband. The idiom must refer to the intense grief that Israel’s unfaithfulness caused God. For a discussion of the syntax and semantics of the Hebrew text, see M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 1:134.

³ tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

⁴ tn It is not clear what the practice of “holding a branch to the nose” indicates. A possible parallel is the Syrian relief of a king holding a flower to his nose as he worships the stars (ANEP 281). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:145-46. The LXX glosses the expression as “Behold, they are like mockers.”

⁵ tn Or “spirit.” See note on “wind” in 2:2.

⁶ sn The phrase officials of the people occurs in Neh 11:1; 1 Chr 21:2; 2 Chr 24:23.

⁷ tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

⁸ tn Heb “each one, the detestable things of their eyes did not throw away.”

⁹ tn Heb “and I said/thought to pour out.”

¹⁰ tn Or “gifts.”

¹¹ tn Or “Will I reveal myself to you?”

¹² tn Or “I will not reveal myself to you.”

¹³ tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

¹⁶ sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

¹⁷ sn That is, Jerusalem.

¹⁸ tn April 19, 573 b.c.

¹⁹ tn Or “power.”

sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).

²⁰ sn That is, to the land of Israel (see v. 2).