Ezekiel 7:22
Context7:22 I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. 1 Vandals will enter it and desecrate it. 2
Ezekiel 30:16
Context30:16 I will ignite a fire in Egypt;
Syene 3 will writhe in agony,
Thebes will be broken down,
and Memphis will face enemies every day.
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, 4 declares the sovereign Lord.”
Ezekiel 43:3
Context43:3 It was like the vision I saw when he 5 came to destroy the city, and the vision I saw by the Kebar River. I threw myself face down.
1 sn My treasured place probably refers to the temple (however, cf. NLT “my treasured land”).
2 sn Since the pronouns “it” are both feminine, they do not refer to the masculine “my treasured place”; instead they probably refer to Jerusalem or the land, both of which are feminine in Hebrew.
3 tc The LXX reads “Syene,” which is Aswan in the south. The MT reads Sin, which has already been mentioned in v. 15.
4 sn See Ezek 11:19; 37:14.
5 tc Heb “I.” The reading is due to the confusion of yod (י, indicating a first person pronoun) and vav (ו, indicating a third person pronoun). A few medieval Hebrew