Ezekiel 7:25

7:25 Terror 1  is coming! They will seek peace, but find none.

Ezekiel 23:37

23:37 For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, 2  they have passed through the fire as food to their idols. 3 

Ezekiel 33:31

33:31 They come to you in crowds, 4  and they sit in front of you as 5  my people. They hear your words, but do not obey 6  them. For they talk lustfully, 7  and their heart is set on 8  their own advantage. 9 

Ezekiel 36:20

36:20 But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord, yet they have departed from his land.’

Ezekiel 44:13

44:13 They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

Ezekiel 44:17

44:17 “‘When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen garments; they must not have any wool on them when they minister in the inner gates of the court and in the temple.

1 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT. It is interpreted based on a Syriac cognate meaning “to bristle or stiffen (in terror).”

2 sn The Lord speaks here in the role of the husband of the sisters.

3 tn Heb “they have passed to them for food.” The verb is commonly taken to refer to passing children through fire, especially as an offering to the pagan god Molech. See Jer 32:35.

4 tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

5 tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

6 tn Heb “do.”

7 tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

8 tn Heb “goes after.”

9 tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.