Discovery BoxEzekiel 28:24 
Context28:24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers 1 or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. 2 Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 5:1
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 3 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 4 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
1 sn Similar language is used in reference to Israel’s adversaries in Num 33:55; Josh 23:13.
2 tn Heb “and there will not be for the house of Israel a brier that pricks and a thorn that inflicts pain from all the ones who surround them, the ones who scorn them.”
3 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
4 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
