Discovery BoxEzekiel 3:27 
Context3:27 But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue 1 and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’ Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, 2 for they are a rebellious house.
Ezekiel 6:11
Context6:11 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands, stamp your feet, and say, “Ah!” because of all the evil, abominable practices of the house of Israel, for they will fall by the sword, famine, and pestilence. 3
Ezekiel 8:1
Context8:1 In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month, 4 as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand 5 of the sovereign Lord seized me. 6
Ezekiel 9:8
Context9:8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out, “Ah, sovereign Lord! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”
Ezekiel 11:7
Context11:7 Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: ‘The corpses you have dumped 7 in the midst of the city 8 are the meat, and this city 9 is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it. 10
Ezekiel 11:13
Context11:13 Now, while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I threw myself face down and cried out with a loud voice, “Alas, sovereign Lord! You are completely wiping out the remnant of Israel!” 11
Ezekiel 11:16
Context11:16 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little 12 sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’
Ezekiel 12:23
Context12:23 Therefore tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: I hereby end this proverb; they will not recite it in Israel any longer.’ But say to them, ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled. 13
Ezekiel 13:13
Context13:13 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.
Ezekiel 14:16
Context14:16 Even if these three men were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own sons or daughters; they would save only their own lives, and the land would become desolate.
Ezekiel 14:20-21
Context14:20 Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, they could not save their own son or daughter; they would save only their own lives by their righteousness.
14:21 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: How much worse will it be when I send my four terrible judgments – sword, famine, wild animals, and plague – to Jerusalem 14 to kill both people and animals!
Ezekiel 16:19
Context16:19 As for my food that I gave you – the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you – you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 16:63
Context16:63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent 15 when I make atonement for all you have done, 16 declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 17:3
Context17:3 Say to them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: 17
“‘A great eagle 18 with broad wings, long feathers, 19
with full plumage which was multi-hued, 20
came to Lebanon 21 and took the top of the cedar.
Ezekiel 17:16
Context17:16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, surely in the city 22 of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke – in the middle of Babylon he will die!
Ezekiel 17:22
Context17:22 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘I will take a sprig 23 from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. 24
I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs;
I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Ezekiel 21:28
Context21:28 “As for you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says concerning the Ammonites and their coming humiliation; 25 say:
“‘A sword, a sword drawn for slaughter,
polished to consume, 26 to flash like lightning –
Ezekiel 22:12
Context22:12 They take bribes within you to shed blood. You engage in usury and charge interest; 27 you extort money from your neighbors. You have forgotten me, 28 declares the sovereign Lord. 29
Ezekiel 22:31
Context22:31 So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, 30 declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 23:22
Context23:22 “Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 31 I am about to stir up against you the lovers with whom you were disgusted; I will bring them against you from every side:
Ezekiel 23:32
Context23:32 “This is what the sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s deep and wide cup; 32 you will be scorned and derided, for it holds a great deal.
Ezekiel 23:35
Context23:35 “Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you have forgotten me and completely disregarded me, 33 you must bear now the punishment 34 for your obscene conduct and prostitution.”
Ezekiel 24:6
Context24:6 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says:
Woe to the city of bloodshed,
the pot whose rot 35 is in it,
whose rot has not been removed 36 from it!
Empty it piece by piece.
No lot has fallen on it. 37
Ezekiel 25:13-14
Context25:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom, and I will kill the people and animals within her, 38 and I will make her desolate; from Teman to Dedan they will die 39 by the sword. 25:14 I will exact my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel. They will carry out in Edom my anger and rage; they will experience 40 my vengeance, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 26:3
Context26:3 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, 41 I am against you, 42 O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
Ezekiel 27:3
Context27:3 Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance 43 of the sea, 44 merchant to the peoples on many coasts, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfectly beautiful.”
Ezekiel 28:25
Context28:25 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power 45 over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.
Ezekiel 29:19
Context29:19 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon. He will carry off her wealth, capture her loot, and seize her plunder; it will be his army’s wages.
Ezekiel 30:22
Context30:22 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, 46 I am against 47 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.
Ezekiel 32:32
Context32:32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 34:2
Context34:2 “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds 48 of Israel; prophesy, and say to them – to the shepherds: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not shepherds feed the flock?
Ezekiel 35:3
Context35:3 Say to it, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:
“‘Look, I am against you, Mount Seir;
I will stretch out my hand against you
and turn you into a desolate ruin.
Ezekiel 35:6
Context35:6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
Ezekiel 36:6
Context36:6 “Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.
Ezekiel 36:15
Context36:15 I will no longer subject you to 49 the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave 50 your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:9
Context37:9 He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, 51 – prophesy, son of man – and say to the breath: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.’”
Ezekiel 37:12
Context37:12 Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:21
Context37:21 Then tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to take the Israelites from among the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from round about and bring them to their land.
Ezekiel 38:17
Context38:17 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants 52 the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days 53 that I would bring you against them?
Ezekiel 39:10
Context39:10 They will not need to take 54 wood from the field or cut down trees from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons. They will take the loot from those who looted them and seize the plunder of those who plundered them, 55 declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 43:27
Context43:27 When the prescribed period is over, 56 on the eighth day and thereafter the priests will offer up on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; 57 I will accept you, declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 45:15
Context45:15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the sovereign Lord.
Ezekiel 46:1
Context46:1 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east 58 will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.
1 tn Heb “open your mouth.”
2 tn Heb “the listener will listen, the refuser will refuse.” Because the word for listening can also mean obeying, the nuance may be that the obedient will listen, or that the one who listens will obey. Also, although the verbs are not jussive as pointed in the MT, some translate them with a volitive sense: “the one who listens – let that one listen, the one who refuses – let that one refuse.”
3 sn By the sword and by famine and by pestilence. A similar trilogy of punishments is mentioned in Lev 26:25-26. See also Jer 14:12; 21:9; 27:8, 13; 29:18).
4 tc The LXX reads “In the sixth year, in the fifth month, on the fifth of the month.”
sn In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month would be September 17, 592
5 tn Or “power.”
sn Hand in the OT can refer metaphorically to power, authority, or influence. In Ezekiel God’s hand being on the prophet is regularly associated with communication or a vision from God (3:14, 22; 8:1; 37:1; 40:1).
6 tn Heb “fell upon me there,” that is, God’s influence came over him.
7 tn Heb “placed.”
8 tn Heb “in its midst.”
10 tc Many of the versions read “I will bring you out” (active) rather than “he brought out” (the reading of MT).
11 tc The LXX reads this statement as a question. Compare this to the question in 9:8. It is possible that the interrogative particle has been omitted by haplography. However, an exclamatory statement as in the MT also makes sense and the LXX may have simply tried to harmonize this passage with 9:8.
12 tn Or “have been partially a sanctuary”; others take this as temporal (cf. NASB, NIV, NRSV “a little while”).
13 tn Heb “the days draw near and the word of every vision (draws near).”
14 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
15 tn Heb “and your mouth will not be open any longer.”
16 tn Heb “when I make atonement for you for all which you have done.”
17 tn The parable assumes the defection of Zedekiah to Egypt and his rejection of Babylonian lordship.
18 sn The great eagle symbolizes Nebuchadnezzar (17:12).
19 tn Hebrew has two words for wings; it is unknown whether they are fully synonymous or whether one term distinguishes a particular part of the wing such as the wing coverts (nearest the shoulder), secondaries (mid-feathers of the wing) or primaries (last and longest section of the wing).
20 tn This term was used in 16:10, 13, and 18 of embroidered cloth.
21 sn In the parable Lebanon apparently refers to Jerusalem (17:12).
22 tn Heb “place.”
23 sn The language is analogous to messianic imagery in Isa 11:1; Zech 3:8; 6:4 although the technical terminology is not the same.
24 tc The LXX lacks “and plant it.”
25 tn Heb “their reproach.”
26 tn Heb “to contain, endure.” Since the Hebrew text as it stands makes little, if any, sense, most emend the text to read either “to consume” or “for destruction.” For discussion of options see D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:693.
27 tn Heb “usury and interest you take.” See 18:13, 17. This kind of economic exploitation violated the law given in Lev 25:36.
28 sn Forgetting the Lord is also addressed in Deut 6:12; 8:11, 14; Jer 3:21; 13:25; Ezek 23:35; Hos 2:15; 8:14; 13:6.
29 tn The second person verb forms are feminine singular in Hebrew, indicating that the personified city is addressed here as representing its citizens.
30 tn Heb “their way on their head I have placed.”
31 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
32 sn The image of a deep and wide cup suggests the degree of punishment; it will be extensive and leave the victim helpless.
33 tn Heb “and you cast me behind your back.” The expression pictures her rejection of the Lord (see 1 Kgs 14:9).
34 tn The word “punishment” is not in the Hebrew text but is demanded by the context.
35 tn Or “rust.”
36 tn Heb “has not gone out.”
37 tn Here “lot” may refer to the decision made by casting lots; it is not chosen at all.
38 tn Heb “and I will cut off from her man and beast.”
39 tn Heb “fall.”
40 tn Heb “know.”
41 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
42 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. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15. In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.
43 tn Heb “entrances.” The plural noun may reflect the fact that Tyre had two main harbors.
44 sn Rome, another economic power, is described in a similar way in Rev 17:1.
45 tn Or “reveal my holiness.” See verse 22.
46 tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
47 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.
48 tn The term shepherd is applied to kings in the ancient Near East. In the OT the
49 tn Heb “cause you to hear.”
50 tc The MT reads תַכְשִׁלִי (takhshiliy), a metathesis for תַשְׁכִלִי (tashkhiliy) from the root שָׁכַל (shakhal) which is used in each of the previous verses.
51 tn Or “spirit,” and several times in this verse.
52 tn Heb “by the hand of my servants.”
53 tn The Hebrew text adds “years” here, but this is probably a scribal gloss on the preceding phrase. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:201.
54 tn Heb “they will not carry.”
55 tn Heb “loot their looters and plunder their plunderers.”
56 tn Heb “and they will complete the days.”
57 sn The people also could partake of the food of the peace offering (Lev 3).
58 sn The east gate of the outer court was permanently closed (Ezek 44:2).
