Agitation of the prophet at the tidings of the coming calamity. This agitation of his is only a symbol of the dismay and paralysis that shall overtake all when the calamity comes. On the figures in Ezekiel 21:7 cf. Ezekiel 7:17.
Verse Ezekiel 21:6. _SIGH - WITH THE BREAKING OF_ THY _LOINS_] Let thy mourning for this sore calamity be like that of a woman in the pains of travail....
The prophet was directed to let the people see him sighing and prostrate, as a sign of the sorrow and weakness about to come upon the people. THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS - The prostration of strength;...
Ezekiel 21:1. A solemn message is given to the prophet: “Behold I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.” It was to b...
EZEKIEL 20:45 TO EZEKIEL 21:32. THE TERRIBLE SWORD OF NEBUCHADREZZAR. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory is followed by a poem this time a wild irregular dithyra...
WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS— _With trembling or shivering of loins._ The allusion seems to be to the pangs of a woman in child-birth. See Isaiah 21:3.Jeremiah 30:6....
III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT 20:45-21:32 In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter 21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the Authorized Version an...
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. SIGH THEREFORE ... WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS - as one afflicted with pleurisy; or...
3, 4. THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED] corresponding to the green tree and the dry in the parable (Ezekiel 20:47). In spite of his strict theory of retribution in Ezekiel 18, Ezekiel recognised the fact...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 21 * This chapter describes how the king of Babylon and his...
WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS. — The loins were regarded as the seat of strength (Job 40:16); and the breaking of these, therefore, expresses entire prostration. Comp. Psalms 66:11; Psalms 69:23;...
_[Ezekiel 21:11]_ וְ אַתָּ֥ה בֶן ־אָדָ֖ם הֵֽאָנַ֑ח...
THE SWORD UNSHEATHED Ezekiel 21:1 THE date at the beginning of chapter 20 introduces the fourth and last section of the prophecies delivered before the destruction of Jerusalem. It also divides the f...
The commission was then repeated in terms of explanation. Ezekiel was to set his face against Jerusalem, and prophesy against the land of Israel, declaring that Jehovah would draw His sword out of its...
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with breaking (d) heart; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. (d) As though you were in extreme anguish....
_Bitterness. Septuagint, "pains," like those of child-bearing, Isaias xxi. 3._...
It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 20 AND 21. Chapter 20 begins a new prophecy, which, with its subdivisions, continues to the end of chapter 23. It will have been remarked that the general div...
SIGH, THEREFORE, THOU SON OF MAN, WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS,.... As if thy loins were broke, and go as if they were, and sigh as thou goest; or as a woman in travail, having her hands upon her lo...
Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. Ver. 6. _Sigh therefore, with the breaking of thy loins._] _Gemituque et gestu dolorem r...
_Sigh, therefore, with the breaking of thy loins_, &c. Show all the tokens of grief and concern; sigh and groan deeply; let the sense of these impending judgments so greatly affect thee, as to make th...
Sigh, therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins, as though the very seat of strength would burst; AND WITH BITTERNESS SIGH BEFORE THEIR EYES, in bitter sorrow and pain over the coming...
The Sword of the Lord....
1-17 Here is an explanation of the parable in the last chapter. It is declared that the Lord was about to cut off Jerusalem and the whole land, that all might know it was his decree against a wicked...
SIGH; thereby express to them deepest sorrows for what is present, and most piercing fears of what is to come. WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS; like a woman in travail, or as one whose griefs are ready...
Ezekiel 21:6 Sigh H584 (H8734) son H1121 man H120 breaking H7670 heart H4975 sigh H584 (H8735) bitterness...
“Sigh, therefore, you son of man. You will sigh with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness before their eyes. And it will be when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?', that you will say, ‘Beca...
CONTENTS: Parable of the sighing prophet, and of the sword of God. No king for Israel until Messiah comes to reign. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Ezekiel, King of Babylon. CONCLUSION: When the sword is u...
Ezekiel 21:2. _Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places._ In the Latin bibles, this chapter begins at 21:45 of the preseding, which preserves unity in the su...
_Wherefore sighest thou?_ .. .For the tidings. SIGHING BECAUSE OF SORROWFUL TIDINGS “The tidings” were, in the first place, of dishonour done to God, and, in the second place, of ruin which the tra...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:6 These verses seem to continue describing the destruction of both “righteous and wicked” (see note on vv. 3–4). The GROAN and BREAKING HEART of v.
THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 21:2, EZEKIEL 21:3 The opening words, reproducing those of Ezekiel 20:46, indicate that the interpretation of that parable is coming. So the
CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21. THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD. THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed, should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Ezekiel 21, the twenty-first chapter of Ezekiel. Now the prophets of God were often very colorful persons. And because people would not always listen to the Word of...
Daniel 5:6; Daniel 8:27; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 21:12; Ezekiel 37:20;...
Sigh therefore — Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins — Like a woman in travail....