2tn Heb “shofar,” a ram’s horn rather than a brass instrument (so throughout the chapter).

3tn Sounding the trumpet was a warning of imminent danger (Neh 4:18-20; Jer 4:19; Amos 3:6).

4tn Heb “his blood will be on his own head.”

5tn Heb “his blood will be on him.”

6tn Or “in his punishment.” The phrase “in/for [a person’s] iniquity/punishment” occurs fourteen times in Ezekiel: here and in vv. 8 and 9; 3:18, 19; 4:17; 7:13, 16; 18: 17, 18, 19, 20; 24:23; 39:23. The Hebrew word for “iniquity” may also mean the “punishment” for iniquity or “guilt” of iniquity.

7tn Heb “his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.”

8sn Jeremiah (Jer 6:17) and Habakkuk (Hab 2:1) also served in the role of a watchman.

9tn The same expression occurs in Gen 2:17.

10tn Heb “and you do not speak to warn.”

11tn Heb “way.”

12tn Heb “and his blood from your hand I will seek.”

13tn Heb “from his way to turn from it.”

14tn Heb “and he does not turn from his way.”

15tn Heb “(are) upon us.”

16tn Heb “turn from his way.”

17tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.

18tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

19tn Heb “in the day of his rebellion.” The statement envisions a godly person rejecting what is good and becoming sinful. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:247-48.

20tn Heb “and the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble in it in the day of his turning from his wickedness.”

21tn Heb “by it.”

22tn Heb “in the day of his sin.”

23tn Heb “the wicked one.”

24tn Heb “and in the statutes of life he walks.”

25tn Heb “remembered.”

26tn Heb “the sons of your people.”

27tn Heb “way.”

28tn The Hebrew verb translated “is (not) right” has the basic meaning of “to measure.” For a similar concept, see Ezek 18:25, 29.

29tn Heb “ways.”

30tn January 19, 585 b.c.

31map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

32tn Heb “smitten.”

33tn The other occurrences of the phrase “the hand of the Lord” in Ezekiel are in the context of prophetic visions.

34tn Heb “he”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.

35tn Heb “by the time of the arrival to me.” For clarity the translation specifies the refugee as the one who arrived.

36sn Ezekiel’s God-imposed muteness was lifted (see 3:26).

37sn Outside of its seven occurrences in Ezekiel the term translated “possession” appears only in Exod 6:8 and Deut 33:4.

38sn This practice was a violation of Levitical law (see Lev 19:26).

39tn Heb “lift up your eyes.”

40tn Heb “Will you possess?”

41tn Heb “stand.”

42tn Heb “fall.”

43sn The judgments of vv. 27-29 echo the judgments of Lev 26:22, 25.

44tn Heb “sons of your people.”

45tn Heb “one to one, a man to his brother.”

46tn Heb “comes out.”

47tn Heb “as people come.” Apparently this is an idiom indicating that they come in crowds. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:264.

48tn The word “as” is supplied in the translation.

49tn Heb “do.”

50tn Heb “They do lust with their mouths.”

51tn Heb “goes after.”

52tn The present translation understands the term often used for “unjust gain” in a wider sense, following M. Greenberg, who also notes that the LXX uses a term which can describe either sexual or ritual pollution. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:687.

53tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.

54tn Heb “one who makes playing music well.”

55sn Similar responses are found in Isa 29:13; Matt 21:28-32; James 1:22-25.

56tn Heb “behold it is coming.”