Ezekiel 6:9

6:9 Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize¹ how I was crushed by their unfaithful² heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves³ because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Ezekiel 8:3

8:3 He stretched out the form⁴ of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind⁵ lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem⁶ by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue⁷ which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 13:20

13:20 “‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note⁸ that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives⁹ like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

¹tn 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.”

²tn 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.

³tn Heb adds “in their faces.”

⁴tn The Hebrew term is normally used as an architectural term in describing the pattern of the tabernacle or temple or a representation of it (see Exod 25:8; 1 Chr 28:11).

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

⁶map For the location of Jerusalem see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁷tn Or “image.”

⁸tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

⁹tn Heb “human lives” or “souls.”