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 7:26
Context7:26 Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.
Ezekiel 21:13
Context21:13 “‘For testing will come, and what will happen when the scepter, which the sword despises, is no more? 2 declares the sovereign Lord.’
Ezekiel 21:27
Context21:27 A total ruin I will make it! 3
It will come to an end
when the one arrives to whom I have assigned judgment.’ 4
Ezekiel 30:4
Context30:4 A sword will come against Egypt
and panic will overtake Ethiopia
when the slain fall in Egypt
and they carry away her wealth
and dismantle her foundations.
Ezekiel 38:10
Context38:10 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, 5 and you will devise an evil plan.
Ezekiel 44:25
Context44:25 “‘They must not come near a dead person or they will be defiled; 6 however, for father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister, they may defile themselves.
Ezekiel 46:8
Context46:8 When the prince enters, he will come by way of the porch of the gate and will go out the same way.
1 tn Heb “wrath.” Context clarifies that God’s wrath is in view.
2 tn Heb “For testing (will come) and what if also a scepter, it despises, will not be?” The translation understands the subject of the verb “despises,” which is a feminine form in the Hebrew text, to be the sword (which is a feminine noun) mentioned in the previous verses. The text is very difficult and any rendering is uncertain.
3 tn Heb “A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it.” The threefold repetition of the noun “ruin” is for emphasis and draws attention to the degree of ruin that would take place. See IBHS 233 §12.5a and GKC 431-32 §133.k. The pronominal suffix (translated “it”) on the verb “make” is feminine in Hebrew. The probable antecedent is the “turban/crown” (both nouns are feminine in form) mentioned in verse 26. The point is that the king’s royal splendor would be completely devastated as judgment overtook his realm and brought his reign to a violent end.
4 tn Heb “Also this, he was not, until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it.” The Hebrew text, as it stands, is grammatically difficult. The pronoun “this” is feminine, while the following negated verb (“was not”) is masculine. Some emend the verb to a feminine form (see BHS). In this case the statement refers to the destiny of the king’s turban/crown (symbolizing his reign). See the previous note. The preposition translated “when” normally means “until,” but here it seems to refer to the period during which the preceding situation is realized, rather than its termination point. See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:19, 21. The second part of the statement, though awkward, probably refers to the arrival of the Babylonian king, to whom the Lord had assigned the task of judgment (see 23:24). Or the verse may read “A total ruin I will make, even this. It will not be until the one comes to whom is (the task of) judgment and I have assigned it.”
5 tn Heb “words will go up upon your heart.”
6 sn This law was part of the legal code for priests (Lev 21:1-3).
