Ezechiel 4:14

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Eu am zis: ,,Ah! Doamne, Dumnezeule, iată, sufletul meu n'a fost pîngărit niciodată; din tinereţea mea şi pînă acum, niciodată n'am mîncat dintr'un dobitoc mort sau sfîşiat, şi nicio carne necurată n'a intrat în gura mea.``

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ah: Ezekiel 9:8, Ezekiel 20:49, Jeremiah 1:6

my soul: Acts 10:14

have I: Exodus 22:31, Leviticus 11:39, Leviticus 11:40, Leviticus 17:15

abominable: Leviticus 19:7, Deuteronomy 14:3, Isaiah 65:4, Isaiah 66:17

Reciprocal: Exodus 22:13 - torn in pieces Leviticus 7:21 - abominable Leviticus 7:24 - beast Leviticus 11:2 - General Deuteronomy 14:21 - any thing Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Daniel 1:8 - defile Malachi 1:13 - torn Matthew 14:20 - were Acts 15:20 - things Colossians 2:16 - in meat Hebrews 9:10 - in meats

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said I, ah, Lord God!.... The interjection "ah" is expressive of sighing and groaning, as Jarchi; or of deprecation, as the Targum, which paraphrases it,

""and I said", receive my prayer, O Lord God:''

behold, my soul hath not been polluted; not meaning that his soul had not been polluted with sin, or with an evil thought, as Kimchi interprets it; but by his soul he means the inward part of his body, his stomach and belly; which had not been defiled by taking in meats which were unclean by the law, as follows:

for from my youth up, even till now, have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; these were forbidden to be eaten by the law; and such that did were defiled, and obliged to bathing in water, Leviticus 17:15; and from those the priests more especially were careful to abstain, as Kimchi observes; and such an one was the prophet; see Acts 10:14;

neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth; corrupt or, putrefied, or whatsoever was unclean by law, as swine's flesh, or any other. The argument is, that since he had never eaten of anything forbidden by the law of God, he could by no means think of eating that which was abhorrent to nature; as bread baked with men's dung was.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Abominable flesh - Flesh that had become corrupt and foul by overkeeping. Compare Leviticus 19:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 4:14. My soul hath not been polluted — There is a remarkable similarity between this expostulation of the prophet and that of St. Peter, Acts 10:14.