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Verse Ezekiel 3:5. _THOU ART NOT SENT TO A PEOPLE OF A STRANGE
SPEECH_] I neither send thee to thy adversaries, the _Chaldeans_, nor
to the _Medes_ and _Persians_, their enemies. Even these would more...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. PREDICTIONS BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM
A. judgment Predictions Concerning Jerusalem (1-24)
Chapter S 1:1-3:14 The Vision of Glory and the Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The...
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EZEKIEL 2:8 TO EZEKIEL 3:15. His inspiration is suggestively described
by the symbolical swallowing of a book-roll. In Jer. (Jeremiah 1:9) it
is more immediately conceived as due to the touch of the D...
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_a strange speech_ lit. _deep of lip_(or speech) _and heavy of
tongue_. The former expression perhaps refers to the inarticulateness
with which, to one unacquainted with their language, foreigners app...
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The prophet shall be strengthened to perform his hard task
Having taken in the "words" of the Lord (Ezekiel 3:4) there opens up
before the prophet a general view of the mission he is sent upon. It
is...
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B. Assurance of Divine Power 3:4-9
TRANSLATION
(4) And He said unto me, Son of man, go unto the house of Israel and
speak with My words unto them (5) For you have not been sent unto a
people of obscu...
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For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, but to the house of Israel;
THOU ART NOT SENT TO A PEOPLE OF A STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN HARD
LANGUAGE - (see margin,...
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3:5 speech, (d-15) Lit. 'deep of lip, and heavy of tongue.'...
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§ 1. EZEKIEL'S CALL AND CONSECRATION AS A PROPHET (EZEKIEL 1-3)
Date, June-July, 592 b.c.
Ezekiel's call and consecration to his prophetic work took place by
means of a vision of God's glory (Ezekiel...
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HEAR, OR.. FORBEAR] The latter is chiefly expected. THEY.. YET SHALL
KNOW, etc.] the result which will keep the prophet's work from being
in vain. His warnings may be fruitless at the time, but they w...
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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 3
EZEKIEL EATS THE *SCROLL – EZEKIEL 3:1-3
V1 Then the *
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TO A PEOPLE OF A STRANGE SPEECH. — In Ezekiel 3:4 it is emphasised
that Ezekiel’s immediate mission is to be, like that of his great
Antitype, to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel; “and yet that...
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כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל ־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה
וְ
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EZEKIEL'S PROPHETIC COMMISSION
Ezekiel 2:1; Ezekiel 3:1
THE call of a prophet and the vision of God which sometimes
accompanied it are the two sides of one complex experience. The man
who has truly s...
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This roll he was commanded to eat. The writing on the roll was a roll
of lamentations and mourning and woe. The prophet declared that having
eaten the roll, he found it in his mouth "as honey for swee...
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I beg the Reader to pause again and again, while going through the
very solemn service of Ezekiel's ordination. What an idea doth it
awaken in the mind of its importance. Though the Lord Jesus himself...
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The Lord testifies that Israel is even more hardened than any of the
heathen nations. The people are "impudent and hard-hearted." It needed
that Ezekiel should have his forehead made as hard as adaman...
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FOR THOU [ART] NOT SENT TO A PEOPLE OF A STRANGE SPEECH,.... "Deep of
lip" g, or "speech"; difficult to be got at and understood:
AND OF A HARD LANGUAGE: or "heavy of tongue" h of a barbarous and
unk...
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For thou [art] not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, [but] to the house of Israel;
Ver. 5. _For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of
an hard language._...
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_Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech_ It would be a
great addition to the burden of thy office if thou wert sent, as Jonah
was, as a prophet to a foreign nation, and to a people whose la...
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DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
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For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard
language, literally, "obscure of lip and difficult of tongue," that
is, a nation whose language was unknown to him, whose entire tr...
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STRANGE SPEECH, AND OF AN HARD LANGUAGE:
_ Heb._ deep of lips, and heavy of tongue, and so ver. 6...
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1-11 Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his
soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened.
Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, whic...
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Though the Divine command is reason enough why we should obey readily,
yet God is pleased to give the prophet arguments to persuade, and
ushers them in here. A PEOPLE OF A STRANGE SPEECH; who cannot s...
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Ezekiel 3:5 sent H7971 (H8803) people H5971 unfamiliar H6012 speech
H8193 hard H3515 language H3956 house H1004 Israel
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‘And he said to me, “Son of man, go, get you to the house of
Israel and speak to them with my words. For you are not sent to a
people of a strange speech and of a hard language (literally ‘deep
of lip...
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CONTENTS: Ezekiel's commission, continued. Again filled with the
Spirit. His dumbness.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel.
CONCLUSION: Ministers are God's mouth to the children of men, but must
not undertake t...
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Ezekiel 3:3. _The roll was in my mouth as honey._ To taste the good
word of God is pleasant; but it was bitter in the belly with regard to
imprisonment and martyrdom. Revelation 10:9. No matter; the s...
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_Thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech._
THE DANGER OF ABUSED PRIVILEGES
If you consider ministers simply as the labourers of God, you will
perceive that he whose scene of cultivation is...
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(3.) RATIFICATIONS OF THE COMMISSION (Chap. Ezekiel 3:4)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 3:5. “OF A STRANGE SPEECH AND OF AN
HARD LANGUAGE.” The marginal reading, _deep of lip and heavy of
tongue_, indicat...
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EXPOSITION
EZEKIEL 3:1
EAT THAT THOU FINDEST, etc. The iteration of the command of Ezekiel
2:8 seems to imply, like the words, "be not thou rebellious," in that
verse, some reluctance on the prophet'...
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CHAPTER 2:1-3:11.
CALL TO THE PROPHETICAL OFFICE.
Ezekiel 2:1. _And he said to me, Son of man,_ (Hävernick, after many
leading commentators, both ancient and modern, still lays stress on
this express...
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Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat
this scroll, and then go and speak to the house of Israel (Ezekiel
3:1).
In other words, devour it and then go give it forth. You see...
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Acts 26:17; Acts 26:18; Ezekiel 3:6; Isaiah 33:19; Jonah 1:2;...