translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “Alas for the day.”


text: Heb “a day of clouds.” The expression occurs also in Joel 2:2 and Zeph 1:15 ; it recalls the appearance of God at Mount Sinai ( Exod 19:9, 16, 18 ).


text: Heb “a time.” The words “of judgment” have been added in the translation for clarification (see the following verses).


text: The same expression appears in Exod 12:38 ; Jer 25:20; 50:37 ; Neh 13:3 . It may refer to foreign mercenaries serving in the armies of the nations listed here.


text: Heb “sons.”


text: The expression “sons of the covenant land” possibly refers to Jews living in Egypt ().


text: Heb “come down.”


text: Heb “all who aid her are broken.”


text: Heb “in the day of Egypt.” The word “doom” has been added in the translation to clarify the nature of this day.


text: Heb “Nebuchadrezzar” is a variant and more correct spelling of Nebuchadnezzar, as the Babylonian name Nabu-kudurri-usur has an “ r ” rather than an “ n .”


text: The Babylonians were known for their cruelty ( 2 Kgs 25:7 ).


text: Heb “and I will sell the land into the hand of.”


text: Heb “I will put fear in the land of Egypt.”


text: Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.


text: Or “kill.”


label: NET textual note

text: The LXX reads “Syene,” which is Aswan in the south. The MT reads Sin, which has already been mentioned in v. 15 .


text: Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”


text: April 29, 587 b.c .


text: The word h!nn@h indicates becoming aware of something and has been translated here as a verb.


text: 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.


text: Heb “him”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.