Ezekiel 7:24
Context7:24 I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries 1 will be desecrated.
Ezekiel 13:5
Context13:5 You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.
Ezekiel 19:12
Context19:12 But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground.
The east wind 2 dried up its fruit;
its strong branches broke off and withered –
a fire consumed them.
Ezekiel 19:14
Context19:14 A fire has gone out from its branch; it has consumed its shoot and its fruit. 3
No strong branch was left in it, nor a scepter to rule.’
This is a lament song, and has become a lament song.”
Ezekiel 30:21-22
Context30:21 “Son of man, I have broken the arm 4 of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 5 Look, it has not been bandaged for healing or set with a dressing so that it might become strong enough to grasp a sword. 30:22 Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, 6 I am against 7 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his arms, the strong arm and the broken one, and I will make the sword drop from his hand.
Ezekiel 34:16
Context34:16 I will seek the lost and bring back the strays; I will bandage the injured and strengthen the sick, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them – with judgment!
1 sn Or “their holy places” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NCV, NRSV).
2 sn The east wind symbolizes the Babylonians.
3 tn The verse describes the similar situation recorded in Judg 9:20.
4 sn The expression “breaking the arm” indicates the removal of power (Ps 10:15; 37:17; Job 38:15; Jer 48:25).
5 sn This may refer to the event recorded in Jer 37:5.
6 tn The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.