Discovery BoxEzekiel 39:23-24 
Context39:23 The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, 1 for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword. 39:24 According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.
Ezekiel 39:29
Context39:29 I will no longer hide my face from them, when I pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, 2 declares the sovereign Lord.”
1 tn Or “in their punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 33:6, 8, 9. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.
2 sn See Ezek 11:19; 37:14.
