Translation commentary on Ezekiel 8:13

He said also to me: God continues to speak with Ezekiel here. Good News Translation makes this clear by rendering the pronoun he as “the LORD.” Contemporary English Version omits this quote frame, which some languages may find helpful.

You will see still greater abominations which they commit: God summarizes this part of the vision by repeating the same words he spoke to Ezekiel at the end of verse 6 (see the comments there). The extra words, which they commit, do not change the meaning at all. Translators may say “You will see them doing things that are even more terrible [or, things I hate worse] than this.”

Quoted with permission from Gross, Carl & Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on Ezekiel. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .

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