Cry and wail, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: (k) smite therefore upon [thy] thigh.
(k) Read (Ezekiel 6:11).
Verse Ezekiel 21:12. _SMITE - UPON THY THIGH._] See on Jeremiah 31:19. So HOMER, Il. xv. ver. 113: - Ὡς εφατ'· αυταρ Αρης θαλερω πεπληγετο μηρω Χερσι καταπρηνεσσ,ολοφυρομενος δε προσηυδα....
The second word of judgment: the glittering and destroying sword. The passage may be called the “Lay of the Sword;” it is written in the form of Hebrew poetry, with its characteristic parallelism. Ez...
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...
IT: i.e. the sword of Jehovah, the king of Babylon. PRINCES. leaders. BE. come. TERRORS BY, &c.. who shall be delivered to the sword with My People. SMITE THEREFORE, &c. This was the symbol of gri...
Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32. The avenging sword of the Lord The passage Ezekiel 20:45-49 belongs to ch. 21 (as in Heb.). The time to which the chapter is to be assigned is the early period of Nebu...
The destroying sword of the Lord. The violent agitation of the prophet at the thought of the coming destruction finds expression in a wild and irregular ode upon the sword of the Lord. The general sen...
_terrors … the sword_ With R. V. THEY (the princes) ARE DELIVERED OVER TO the sword with my people. _smite upon thy thigh_ A gesture implying despair or the sense of a terrible and irreparable evil h...
B. The Song of the Sword 21:8-17 TRANSLATION (8) And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (9) Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the LORD: Say: A sword, a sword is sharpened and also poli...
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh. TERRORS...
CRY.. HOWL.. SMITE] tokens of Ezekiel's excited sympathy with God's justice. TERRORS.. UPON MY PEOPLE] RV 'they' (the princes) 'are delivered over to the sword with my people.'...
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...
SMITE THEREFORE UPON THY THIGH. — A mark of extreme grief, see Jeremiah 31:19. The connection of Ezekiel 21:11 with the objection in Ezekiel 21:10 is this: you think there is security for you in the p...
(8-17) This second prophecy is an expansion of the last, Ezekiel 21:8 corresponding to 2-5, and Ezekiel 21:14 to Ezekiel 21:6. In several of its clauses modern criticism has been able to improve the t...
_[Ezekiel 21:17]_ זְעַ֤ק וְ הֵילֵל֙ בֶּן ־אָדָ֔ם...
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...
_Fled, with Sedecias, by night. --- Thigh, in surprise and grief, ver. 17._...
This seems to be another sermon to the same amount as the former. The Lord directs His servant to continue his alarming message, and again and again to cry concerning the sword of the Lord's slaughter...
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...
CRY, HOWL, SON OF MAN,.... Not only sigh, but cry; and not cry only, but howl; signifying hereby that this would be the case of the Jews when these calamities should come upon them; and, in order to a...
_Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it [shall be] upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon [thy] thigh._ Ver...
_Cry and howl, son of man_ As a mark of the vehemence of thy grief. _For it shall be upon my people_ Namely, the devouring sword; _upon all the princes of Israel_ Both princes and people shall be invo...
Cry and howl, son of man, namely, from fear and grief; FOR IT SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE, IT SHALL BE UPON ALL THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL; TERRORS BY REASON OF THE SWORD SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE, the sword of...
The Sword of the Lord....
TERRORS, BY REASON OF THE SWORD, SHALL BE UPON MY PEOPLE: Or, they are thrust down to the sword with my people...
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...
CRY, as one in great distress; nay, how unseemly soever it may appear, howl, that they may by this know what sorrows are coming on them, and how they, like wild beasts taken in the toils and girts, sh...
Ezekiel 21:12 Cry H2199 (H8798) wail H3213 (H8685) son H1121 man H120 people H5971 princes H538
“Cry and howl, son of man, for it (the sword) is against my people, it is against all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Smite therefore on your thigh. For the...
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...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:8 This oracle uses the image of a sharpened sword. Verses Ezekiel 21:8 focus on the nature of the sword itself, honed to razor sharpness. Verses...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:12 The PRINCES OF ISRAEL may refer to the tragic events at Riblah (2 Kings 25:6). STRIKE... YOUR THIGH is an
EXEGETICAL NOTES. (Ezekiel 21:8.) The sword is sharpened for slaying. As they are a people who refuse to understand, the judgment is announced in the plainest terms. Ezekiel 21:9. “AND ALSO FURBISHED....
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
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...
Ezekiel 21:14; Ezekiel 21:6; Ezekiel 30:2; Ezekiel 6:11; Ezekiel 9:8;...
It — The devouring sword. Upon thy thigh — In token of thy sense of what they must suffer....