Discovery BoxEzekiel 5:1 
Context5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor. 1 Shave off some of the hair from your head and your beard. 2 Then take scales and divide up the hair you cut off.
Ezekiel 5:13
Context5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. 3 Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy 4 when I have fully vented my rage against them.
1 tn The Hebrew word occurs only here in the OT.
2 tn Heb, “pass (it) over your head and your beard.”
3 tn Or “calm myself.”
4 tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.
