Ezekiel 24:12-14

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Ezekiel 24:12 tn Heb “(with) toil she has wearied.” The meaning of the statement is unclear in the Hebrew text; some follow the LXX and delete it. The first word in the statement (rendered “toil” in the literal translation above) occurs only here in the OT, and the verb “she has wearied” lacks a stated object. Elsewhere the Hiphil of the verb refers to wearying someone or trying someone’s patience. The feminine subject is apparently the symbolic pot.
2. Ezekiel 24:12 tn Heb “does not go out.”
3. Ezekiel 24:12 tn Heb “in fire its rust.” The meaning of the expression is unclear. The translation understands the statement as a command to burn the rust away. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:768.
4. Ezekiel 24:13 tn Heb “in your uncleanness (is) obscene conduct.”
5. Ezekiel 24:13 tn Heb “because I cleansed you.” In this context (see especially the very next statement), the statement must refer to divine intention and purpose. Despite God’s efforts to cleanse his people, they resisted him and remained morally impure.
6. Ezekiel 24:13 tn The Hebrew text adds the word “again.”
7. Ezekiel 24:14 tn Heb “it”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
8. Ezekiel 24:14 tn Or perhaps, “change my mind.”
9. Ezekiel 24:14 tc Some medieval Hebrew mss and the major ancient versions read a first person verb here. Most Hebrew mss read have an indefinite subject, “they will judge you,” which could be translated, “you will be judged.”
10. Ezekiel 24:14 tn Heb “ways.”