Ezekiel 7:12

7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath ¹  comes against their whole crowd.

Ezekiel 11:3

11:3 They say, ²  ‘The time is not near to build houses; ³  the city ⁴  is a cooking pot ⁵  and we are the meat in it.’

Ezekiel 16:47

16:47 Have you not copied their behavior ⁶  and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time ⁷  you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

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¹ tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.

² tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.

³ sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).

⁴ tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.

⁵ sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.

⁶ tn Heb “walked in their ways.”

⁷ tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.