translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “Waters made it grow; the deep made it grow tall. It (the deep) was flowing with its rivers around the place it (the tree) was planted, it (the deep) sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.”


text: Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).


text: Or “many.”


text: Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”


text: Heb “acting he has acted with regard to it.” The infinitive absolute precedes the main verb to emphasize the certainty and decisiveness of the action depicted.


text: Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).


text: Heb “gone down.”


text: Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.


text: Heb “be.”


text: Heb “and they will not stand to them in their height, all the drinkers of water.”


text: Heb “for death, to the lower earth.”


text: Heb “the sons of men.”


text: Or “he.”


text: Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block ( Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.


text: Heb “its arm.”