Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:11 
Context3:11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, 1 and speak to them – say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
Ezekiel 3:24
Context3:24 Then a wind 2 came into me and stood me on my feet. The Lord 3 spoke to me and said, “Go shut yourself in your house.
Ezekiel 4:8
Context4:8 Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege. 4
Ezekiel 4:15
Context4:15 So he said to me, “All right then, I will substitute cow’s manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it.”
Ezekiel 5:9
Context5:9 I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again because of all your abominable practices. 5
Ezekiel 9:5
Context9:5 While I listened, he said to the others, 6 “Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare 7 anyone!
Ezekiel 12:4
Context12:4 Bring out your belongings packed for exile during the day while they are watching. And go out at evening, while they are watching, as if for exile.
Ezekiel 13:17
Context13:17 “As for you, son of man, turn toward 8 the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their imagination. 9 Prophesy against them
Ezekiel 13:23
Context13:23 Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you 10 will know that I am the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 16:10
Context16:10 I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put fine leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
Ezekiel 16:16
Context16:16 You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. 11
Ezekiel 16:18
Context16:18 You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them.
Ezekiel 16:28
Context16:28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:30
Context16:30 “‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.
Ezekiel 16:47
Context16:47 Have you not copied their behavior 12 and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time 13 you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!
Ezekiel 16:53
Context16:53 “‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them),
Ezekiel 16:60
Context16:60 Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting 14 covenant with you.
Ezekiel 18:25
Context18:25 “Yet you say, ‘The Lord’s conduct 15 is unjust!’ Hear, O house of Israel: Is my conduct unjust? Is it not your conduct that is unjust?
Ezekiel 18:31
Context18:31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! 16 Why should you die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 20:18
Context20:18 “‘But I said to their children 17 in the wilderness, “Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, 18 nor defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:20
Context20:20 Treat my Sabbaths as holy 19 and they will be a reminder of our relationship, 20 and then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”
Ezekiel 20:30
Context20:30 “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers 21 and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?
Ezekiel 20:42
Context20:42 Then you will know that I am the Lord when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land I swore 22 to give to your fathers.
Ezekiel 21:32
Context21:32 You will become fuel for the fire –
your blood will stain the middle of the land; 23
you will no longer be remembered,
for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”
Ezekiel 23:33-34
Context23:33 You will be overcome by 24 drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation. 23:34 You will drain it dry, 25 gnaw its pieces, 26 and tear out your breasts, 27 for I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 23:40
Context23:40 “They even sent for men from far away; when the messenger arrived, those men set out. 28 For them you bathed, 29 painted your eyes, and decorated yourself with jewelry.
Ezekiel 23:49
Context23:49 They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. 30 Then you will know that I am the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 27:22
Context27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.
Ezekiel 27:24-25
Context27:24 They traded with you choice garments, purple clothes and embroidered work, and multicolored carpets, bound and reinforced with cords; these were among your merchandise. 27:25 The ships of Tarshish 31 were the transports for your merchandise.
“‘So you were filled and weighed down in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 32:8
Context32:8 I will darken all the lights in the sky over you,
and I will darken your land,
declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 33:17
Context33:17 “Yet your people 32 say, ‘The behavior 33 of the Lord is not right,’ 34 when it is their behavior that is not right.
Ezekiel 33:26
Context33:26 You rely 35 on your swords and commit abominable deeds; each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. Will you possess the land?’
Ezekiel 33:32
Context33:32 Realize 36 that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. 37 They hear your words, but they do not obey them. 38
Ezekiel 34:31
Context34:31 And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, 39 and I am your God, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 35:9
Context35:9 I will turn you into a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 36:10
Context36:10 I will multiply your people 40 – the whole house of Israel, all of it. The cities will be populated and the ruins rebuilt.
Ezekiel 36:13
Context36:13 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, “You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
Ezekiel 36:24
Context36:24 “‘I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries; then I will bring you to your land.
Ezekiel 36:29
Context36:29 I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will call for the grain and multiply it; I will not bring a famine on you.
Ezekiel 36:33
Context36:33 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: In the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will populate the cities and the ruins will be rebuilt.
Ezekiel 38:10
Context38:10 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, 41 and you will devise an evil plan.
Ezekiel 44:6
Context44:6 Say to the rebellious, 42 to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough of all your abominable practices, O house of Israel!
1 tn Heb “to the sons of your people.”
2 tn See the note on “wind” in 2:2.
3 tn Heb “he.”
4 sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.
5 tn Or “abominable idols.”
6 tn Heb “to these he said in my ears.”
7 tn The meaning of the Hebrew term is primarily emotional: “to pity,” which in context implies an action, as in being moved by pity in order to spare them from the horror of their punishment.
8 tn Heb “set your face against.”
9 tn Heb “from their heart.”
10 tn The Hebrew verb is feminine plural, indicating that it is the false prophetesses who are addressed here.
11 tc The text as written in the MT is incomprehensible (“not coming [plural] and he will not”). Driver has suggested a copying error of similar-sounding words, specifically לֹא (lo’) for לוֹ (lo). The feminine participle בָאוֹת (va’ot) has also been read as the feminine perfect בָאת (va’t). See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 1:228, n. 15.b, and D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:486, n. 137.
12 tn Heb “walked in their ways.”
13 tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.
14 tn Or “eternal.”
15 tn Heb “way.”
16 sn In Ezek 11:19, 36:26 the new heart and new spirit are promised as future blessings.
17 tn Heb “sons,” reflecting the patriarchal idiom of the culture.
18 tn Or “standard of justice.” See Ezek 7:27.
19 tn Or “set apart my Sabbaths.”
20 tn Heb “and they will become a sign between me and you.”
21 tn Heb “in the way of your fathers.”
22 tn Heb “I lifted up my hand.”
23 tn Heb “your blood will be in the middle of the land.”
24 tn Heb “filled with.”
25 tn Heb “You will drink it and drain (it).”
26 tn D. I. Block compares this to the idiom of “licking the plate” (Ezekiel [NICOT], 1:754, n. 137). The text is difficult as the word translated “gnaw” is rare. The noun is used of the shattered pieces of pottery and so could envision a broken cup. But the Piel verb form is used in only one other place (Num 24:8), where it is a denominative from the noun “bone” and seems to mean to “break (bones).” Why it would be collocated with “sherds” is not clear. For this reason some emend the phrase to read “consume its dregs” (see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel [WBC], 2:44) or emend the verb to read “swallow,” as if the intoxicated Oholibah breaks the cup and then eats the very sherds in an effort to get every last drop of the beverage that dampens them.
27 sn The severe action is more extreme than beating the breasts in anguish (Isa 32:12; Nah 2:7). It is also ironic for these are the very breasts she so blatantly offered to her lovers (vv. 3, 21).
28 tn Heb “to whom a messenger was sent, and look, they came.” Foreign alliances are in view here.
29 tn The Hebrew verb form is feminine singular, indicating that Oholibah (Judah) is specifically addressed here. This address continues through verse 42a (note “her”), but then both sisters are described in verse 42b, where the feminine pronouns are again plural.
30 tn Heb “and the sins of your idols you will bear.” By extension it can mean the punishment for the sins.
31 tn Or perhaps “Large merchant ships.” The expression “ships of Tarshish” may describe a class of vessel, that is, large oceangoing merchant ships.
32 tn Heb “the sons of your people.”
33 tn Heb “way.”
34 tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.
35 tn Heb “stand.”
36 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
37 tn Heb “one who makes playing music well.”
38 sn Similar responses are found in Isa 29:13; Matt 21:28-32; James 1:22-25.
39 tn Heb, “the sheep of my pasture, you are human.” See 36:37-38 for a similar expression. The possessive pronoun “my” is supplied in the translation to balance “I am your God” in the next clause.
40 tn Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”
41 tn Heb “words will go up upon your heart.”
42 tc The LXX reads “house of rebellion.”
