translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EZK

label: NET translator note

text: Or “high places.”


text: Heb “lip of the tongue.”


text: Heb “I lifted up my hand.”


text: Heb “they draw near to arrive.”


text: Heb “I (am) toward you.”


text: Heb “I will multiply on you human(s).”


text: Heb “your beginning.”


text: Heb “cause you to hear.”


label: NET textual note

text: The MT reads תַכְשִׁלִי ( takhshiliy ), a metathesis for תַשְׁכִלִי ( tashkhiliy ) from the root שָׁכַל ( shakhal ) which is used in each of the previous verses.


text: Heb “way.”


text: Heb “name.”


text: Or “sanctify,” Heb “make holy.”


text: Or “in the midst of you.” The word “you” is plural.


text: Heb “and I will do that which in my statutes you will walk.” The awkward syntax (verb “to do, act” + accusative sign + relative clause + prepositional phrase + second person verb) is unique, though Eccl 3:14 contains a similar construction. In the last line of that verse we read that “God acts so that (relative pronoun) they fear before him.” However, unlike Ezek 36:27 , the statement has no accusative sign before the relative pronoun.


text: Heb “and my laws you will guard and you will do them.” Jer 31:31-34 is parallel to this passage.


text: Heb “ways.”


text: Heb “Let it be known.”


text: The Niphal verb may have a tolerative function here, “Again (for) this I will allow myself to be sought by the house of Israel to act for them.” Or it may be reflexive: “I will reveal myself to the house of Israel by doing this also.”