Ezekiel 7:14

7:14 “They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd. 1 

Ezekiel 22:24

22:24 “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that receives no rain 2  or showers in the day of my anger.’ 3 

Ezekiel 24:8

24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,

I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

Ezekiel 36:18

36:18 So I poured my anger on them 4  because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it. 5 

Ezekiel 38:18

38:18 On that day, when Gog invades 6  the land of Israel, declares the sovereign Lord, my rage will mount up in my anger.

1 tn The Hebrew word refers to the din or noise made by a crowd, and by extension may refer to the crowd itself.

2 tc The MT reads “that is not cleansed”; the LXX reads “that is not drenched,” which assumes a different vowel pointing as well as the loss of a מ (mem) due to haplography. In light of the following reference to showers, the reading of the LXX certainly fits the context well. For a defense of the emendation, see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:32. Yet the MT is not an unreasonable reading since uncleanness in the land also fits the context, and a poetic connection between rain and the land being uncleansed may be feasible since washing with water is elsewhere associated with cleansing (Num 8:7; 31:23; Ps 51:7).

3 tn Heb “in a day of anger.”

4 sn See Ezek 7:8; 9:8; 14:19; 20:8, 13, 21; 22:22; 30:15.

5 sn For the concept of defiling the land in legal literature, see Lev 18:28; Deut 21:23.

6 tn Heb “goes up against.”