Discovery BoxEzekiel 14:8 
Context14:8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword 1 and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 14:13
Context14:13 “Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, 2 cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
Ezekiel 16:4
Context16:4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; 3 you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 4
Ezekiel 16:27
Context16:27 So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.
Ezekiel 21:3-4
Context21:3 and say to them, 5 ‘This is what the Lord says: Look, 6 I am against you. 7 I will draw my sword 8 from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked. 9 21:4 Because I will cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked, my sword will go out from its sheath against everyone 10 from the south 11 to the north.
Ezekiel 37:11
Context37:11 Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
1 tn Heb “proverbs.”
2 tn Heb “break its staff of bread.”
3 tn Heb “in water you were not washed for cleansing” or “with water you were not washed smooth” (see D. I. Block, Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:473, n. 57, for a discussion of possible meanings of this hapax legomenon).
4 sn Arab midwives still cut the umbilical cords of infants and then proceed to apply salt and oil to their bodies.
5 tn Heb “the land of Israel.”
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.
8 sn This is the sword of judgment, see Isa 31:8; 34:6; 66:16.
9 sn Ezekiel elsewhere pictures the Lord’s judgment as discriminating between the righteous and the wicked (9:4-6; 18:1-20; see as well Pss 1 and 11) and speaks of the preservation of a remnant (3:21; 6:8; 12:16). Perhaps here he exaggerates for rhetorical effect in an effort to subdue any false optimism. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:25-26; D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:669-70; and W. Zimmerli, Ezekiel (Hermeneia), 1:424-25.
10 tn Heb “all flesh” (also in the following verse).
11 tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.
