translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “set your face against.”


text: Or “gave over…to the power of the sword.” This phrase also occurs in Jer 18:21 and Ps 63:10 .


label: NET textual note

text: The translation reads with some manuscripts לְשִׁמְמָה וּמְשַׁמָּה ( lÿshimmah umÿshammah , “desolate ruin”) as in verse 3 and often in Ezekiel. The majority reading reverses the first mem ( מ ) with the shin ( שׁ ) resulting in the repetition of the word desolate: לְשִׁמְמָה וּשְׁמָמָה ( lÿshimmah ushÿmamah ).


text: Or “kill.”


text: Heb “it.”


text: Heb “your mouth.”


text: Heb “and you multiplied against me your words.” The Hebrew verb occurs only here and in Prov 27:6 , where it refers to the “excessive” kisses of an enemy. The basic idea of the verb appears to be “to be abundant.” Here it occurs in the causative (Hiphil) stem.