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Verse Ezekiel 3:14. _I WENT IN BITTERNESS_] Being filled with
indignation at the wickedness and obstinacy of my people, I went,
determining to speak the word of God without disguise, and to reprove
th...
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LIFTED ME UP - We are not to suppose that the prophet was miraculously
transported from one place to another in the land of his captivity.
Compare Matthew 4:1; Acts 8:39. He had been in an ecstatic vi...
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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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LIFTED ME UP, &c, Compare Acts 8:39, Act 8:40. 2 Corinthians
12:4.Revelation 1:10. Compare Obadiah's fear (1 Kings 18:12)....
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The Prophet's Particular Mission to the Exiles at Tel Abib
Though Ezekiel's mission, like that of all the prophets, was to the
house of Israel as a whole (Ezekiel 3:5), yet immediately his work lay
a...
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_in bitterness_ i. e. indignation, or anger, Judges 18:25 (angry
fellows), 2 Samuel 17:8. Similarly "heat of spirit" is fury or wrath.
The prophet was lifted up into sympathy with God and shared his
r...
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I WENT IN BITTERNESS, IN THE HEAT OF MY SPIRIT— _I went with a
bitter and uneasy mind._ See the note on Ezekiel 3:3....
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C. Assessment of the Congregation 3:10-15
TRANSLATION
(10) And He said unto me, Son of man, all My words which I shall speak
unto you receive into your heart, and with your ears hear. (11) And go
unt...
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So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me.
I WENT IN BITTERNESS - sadness on account of the impe...
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THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME] to be taken along with I WENT. Ezekiel was not
miraculously transported to Tel-abib, but in his movement thither he
was under the influence of God's Spirit, like Elijah in 1 King...
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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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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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I WENT IN BITTERNESS, IN THE HEAT OF MY prophet now begins to realise
the sorrow and the trial of the task laid upon him. The command of the
Lord was sweet (Ezekiel 3:3), its performance is bitter. “B...
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וְ ר֥וּחַ נְשָׂאַ֖תְנִי וַ
תִּקָּחֵ֑נִי וָ אֵ
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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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THE WATCHMAN'S RESPONSIBILITY
Ezekiel 3:12-27
He was bitter because of his message, but hot because God's fire was
burning within him. It is a blessed thing for preacher, leader, or
Christian worker,...
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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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So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I (e) went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me.
(e) This shows that there is always an infirmity of...
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_Spirit, resolved to rebuke (Calmet) sinners. Septuagint, "the spirit
of the Lord also lifted me....and I went aloft ( like a meteor; Greek:
meteoros) by the impulse of my spirit; for the hand of the...
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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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He confirms what we have formerly seen, namely, that he was acted upon
by the Spirit of God, so that it was in some way without himself, and
not as profane men have invented, enthusiastically: for the...
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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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SO THE SPIRIT LIFTED ME UP, AND TOOK ME AWAY,.... Lifted him up from
the earth, and carried him through the air:
AND I WENT IN BITTERNESS; full of trouble and sorrow, that the Lord
was departing from...
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So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was
strong upon me.
Ver. 14. _So the spirit lifted me up._] As it did afterw...
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_So the spirit lifted me up and took me away Caught me up into the
air_, and carried me, (as Philip was carried away from the eunuch,)
and brought me to the place where I was to deliver my message, th...
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So the Spirit lifted me up, placing him into a state of ecstasy, AND
TOOK ME AWAY; AND I WENT IN BITTERNESS, IN THE HEAT OF MY SPIRIT, in
deep sadness on account of the calamities of which he was requ...
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EZEKIEL AS WATCHMAN...
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BITTERNESS:
_ Heb._ bitter
HEAT OF MY SPIRIT:
_ Heb._ hot anger...
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12-21 This mission made the holy angels rejoice. All this was to
convince Ezekiel, that the God who sent him had power to bear him out
in his work. He was overwhelmed with grief for the sins and mise...
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SO, Heb. _And_, or then, at that very time. THE SPIRIT, the Spirit of
God, as EZEKIEL 3:12, which see. LIFTED ME UP, either from that
prostration which the terrible vision had caused when he fell to t...
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‘So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in
bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was
strong upon me.'
Ezekiel repeats and amplifies his reference to the Spirit...
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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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_So the Spirit lifted me up._
IN THE UPLIFTED LIFE WE ARE FITTED TO DO THE LORD’S WORK
Ezekiel was now strengthened to do a very difficult work. He was to go
and speak to a people who had no sympathy...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:14 The phrase IN THE HEAT appears 30 times
in the OT. The esv generally translates it “in wrath” or “in
fury.” Ezekiel has gained God’s perspective on his people’s sin,
and h...
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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 3:12-27.
EZEKIEL'S ENTRANCE ON HIS MISSION, AND THE FIRST MESSAGE IMPARTED TO
HIM.
Ezekiel 3:12. _And the spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the
voice of aloud tumultuous noise, “Ble...
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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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1 Kings 18:46; 2 Kings 2:16; 2 Kings 3:15; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:12;...
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Spirit — Caught him up into the air. Took — Carried me to the
place where the captive Jews were crowded together. Bitterness — Not
at all pleased with my work. He went in the heat of his spirit;
becau...