Ezekiel 3:6
Context3:6 not to many peoples of unintelligible speech and difficult language, whose words you cannot understand 1 – surely if 2 I had sent you to them, they would listen to you!
Ezekiel 3:25
Context3:25 As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and tie you up with them, so you cannot go out among them.
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. 3
Ezekiel 24:8
Context24:8 To arouse anger, to take vengeance,
I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.
1 tn Heb “hear.”
2 tc The MT reads “if not” but most ancient versions translate only “if.” The expression occurs with this sense in Isa 5:9; 14:24. See also Ezek 34:8; 36:5; 38:19.
3 sn The action surely refers to a series of daily acts rather than to a continuous period.