Discovery BoxEzekiel 7:12 
Context7:12 The time has come; the day has struck! The customer should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for divine wrath 1 comes against their whole crowd.
Ezekiel 11:3
Context11:3 They say, 2 ‘The time is not near to build houses; 3 the city 4 is a cooking pot 5 and we are the meat in it.’
Ezekiel 16:47
Context16:47 Have you not copied their behavior 6 and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time 7 you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!
1 tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.
2 tn The Hebrew verb may mean “think” in this context. This content of what they say (or think) represents their point of view.
3 sn The expression build houses may mean “establish families” (Deut 25:9; Ruth 4:11; Prov 24:27).
4 tn Heb “she” or “it”; the feminine pronoun refers here to Jerusalem.
5 sn Jerusalem is also compared to a pot in Ezek 24:3-8. The siege of the city is pictured as heating up the pot.
6 tn Heb “walked in their ways.”
7 tn The Hebrew expression has a temporal meaning as illustrated by the use of the phrase in 2 Chr 12:7.
