Discovery BoxEzekiel 16:52 
Context16:52 So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. 1 Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous.
Ezekiel 31:14
Context31:14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. 2 For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; 3 they will be among mere mortals, 4 with those who descend to the pit.
Ezekiel 41:7
Context41:7 The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; 5 for the structure 6 surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.
1 tn Heb “because you have interceded for your sisters with your sins.”
2 tn Heb “and they will not stand to them in their height, all the drinkers of water.”
3 tn Heb “for death, to the lower earth.”
4 tn Heb “the sons of men.”
5 tc The Hebrew is difficult here. The Targum envisions a winding ramp or set of stairs, which entails reading the first word as a noun rather than a verb and reading the second word also not as a verb, supposing that an initial mem has been read as vav and nun. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:549.
6 tn The Hebrew term occurs only here in the OT.
