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 likely have hearkened unto thee than thy own countrymen.
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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,...
3:5 speech, (d-15) Lit. 'deep of lip, and heavy of tongue.'...
§ 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...
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...
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 *
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...
כִּ֡י לֹא֩ אֶל ־עַ֨ם עִמְקֵ֥י שָׂפָ֛ה וְ
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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._...
_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...
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...
DIVINE STRENGTH IN THE FACE OF CERTAIN OPPOSITION...
STRANGE SPEECH, AND OF AN HARD LANGUAGE: _ Heb._ deep of lips, and heavy of tongue, and so ver. 6...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 3:5 sent H7971 (H8803) people H5971 unfamiliar H6012 speech H8193 hard H3515 language H3956 house H1004 Israel
‘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...
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...
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...
_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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 3:5 Contrary to what he expected, Ezekiel is warned that taking God’s word to another nation would be easier than taking God’s words to his own people. ⇐
(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...
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'...
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...
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...
Acts 26:17; Acts 26:18; Ezekiel 3:6; Isaiah 33:19; Jonah 1:2;...