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Lamentationes 3:24
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HETH. Pars mea Dominus, dixit anima mea ; propterea exspectabo eum.
Et ingressus est in me spiritus, et statuit me super pedes meos, et locutus est mihi, et dixit ad me: Ingredere, et includere in medio domus tuæ.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the spirit: Ezekiel 2:2, Ezekiel 37:10, Daniel 10:8-10, Daniel 10:19
Go: Ezekiel 4:1-4
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 6:10 - shut up Jeremiah 15:17 - sat alone Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 11:5 - the Spirit
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then the spirit entered into me,.... Again; the Spirit of God, that was in the wheels and living creatures: see Ezekiel 2:2;
and set me upon my feet; as he had done before, when in the same prostrate condition, Ezekiel 2:2;
and spake with me; either the Spirit that entered into him, and set him upright; or rather the Lord Christ, the glory of the Lord that stood where he was, and appeared to him:
and said unto me, go, shut thyself within thine house: this was not said ironically, but in earnest; and the reason either was, because the people were not fit for reproof and correction, as Jarchi thinks, being a rebellious people; or that the prophet might receive further instructions, and have all the words of his prophecy delivered to him, before he began to prophesy. Some think this shutting up was an emblem of the siege of Jerusalem. It may seem strange that the prophet should be bid to go into the plain, where the Lord promised to talk with him; and this is all that is said to him, to go home, and shut himself up in his house: but it should be observed, that this was not the only thing for which he went into the plain: he was to have, and had, a fresh view of the glory of the Lord, and of the vision he had before, for the further confirmation of him; besides, this moving him from place to place, before he prophesied, might be partly to try his faith, and partly to preserve him from the violence of the people; who, had he delivered his message at once, might have been so provoked, as to have fallen upon him, and destroyed him; as well as to prepare them to receive his prophecies with more respect and reverence, when they saw he did not rashly, and at once, deliver them out to them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
“Shut†in the privacy of his own chamber he is to receive a message from Yahweh. This “shutting up,†however, and the “bands†(Ezekiel 3:25, used figuratively) were signs of the manner in which Ezekiel’s countrymen would close their ears, hindering him as far as in them lay from delivering the message of the Lord.
With this verse commences a series of symbolic actions enjoined to the prophet in order to foretell the coming judgments of Jerusalem Ezekiel 4:0; Ezekiel 5:0. Generally speaking symbolic actions were either literal and public, or figurative and private. In the latter case they impressed upon the prophet’s mind the truth which he was to enforce upon others by the description of the action as by a figure. Difficulties have arisen, because interpreters have not chosen to recognize the figurative as well as the literal mode of prophesying. Hence, some, who would have all literal, have had to accept the most strange and unnecessary actions as real; while others, who would have all figurative, have had arbitrarily to explain away the most plain historical statement. There may be a difference of opinion as to which class one or other figure may belong; but after all, the determination is not important, the whole value of the parabolic figure residing in the lesson which it is intended to convey.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 3:24. The spirit - said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house. — Hide thyself for the present. The reason is immediately subjoined.