Ezechiel 6:11

Romanian Cornilescu Translation

Aşa vorbeşte Domnul, Dumnezeu: ,Bate din mîni, dă din picioare, şi zi: ,Vai!` pentru toate urîciunile cele rele ale casei lui Israel, care va cădea lovită de sabie, de foamete şi de ciumă.

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Smite: Ezekiel 21:14-17, Numbers 24:10, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 9:1, Jeremiah 9:10

Alas: Ezekiel 9:4, Jeremiah 30:7, Joel 1:15, Amos 5:16, Revelation 18:10, Revelation 18:16-19

fall: Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 14:21, Jeremiah 15:2, Jeremiah 15:3, Jeremiah 16:4, Jeremiah 24:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:3 - lest he Jeremiah 4:12 - give sentence Jeremiah 38:2 - He Jeremiah 42:22 - know Ezekiel 7:11 - none Ezekiel 7:12 - for Ezekiel 21:4 - against Ezekiel 21:6 - Sigh Ezekiel 21:12 - terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my Ezekiel 25:6 - stamped Ezekiel 33:27 - surely Ezekiel 33:29 - because

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord God, smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot,.... These are gestures of persons in distress and agony, who, to show their trouble and grief, smite one hand against the other; or smite with the hand upon the thigh, as in Jeremiah 31:19; and "stretch out", or "make a distension with the foot" d; as it is in the Hebrew text; extend their thighs; throw out their feet; stamp with them; beat the earth, and make it shake, as the Syriac version; all expressive of anguish and sorrow:

and say, alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! the word "alas", or "woe", as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, an interjection of mourning and lamentation, explains the above gestures; and what follows shows the cause of all; namely, the sins and abominations committed by the house of Israel; which they being insensible of, and unconcerned about, the prophet is ordered to take such a method to awaken them out of their stupidity and lethargy; and the rather, since the heaviest of judgments were coming upon them:

for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; which are threatened in Ezekiel 5:12; and the persons on whom they should be separately executed are mentioned in Ezekiel 6:12.

d רקע ברגלך "extende pede tuo", Pagninus, Montanus, Polanus; "fac distensionem cum pede tuo", Munster; "divarica pedes tuos": Calvin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment.

Ezekiel 6:11

Smite ... stamp - Well-known modes of expressing grief.

Ezekiel 6:13

Sweet savor - Compare Genesis 8:21. Words, applied to the smell of sacrifices accepted by God, applied here to idol-sacrifices in irony.

Ezekiel 6:14

Toward Diblath - Or, “Diblathaim,” the “Diblathan” of the Moabite stone, one of the double cities of Moab (see Ezekiel 25:9) to the east of which lay the great desert of Arabia. Some read: “unto Riblah” Jeremiah 52:9 and take the margin rendering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 6:11. Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot — Show the utmost marks of thy astonishment and indignation, and dread of the evils that are coming upon them. Some have contended for the propriety of clapping and stamping in public worship from these words! It is scarcely a breach of charity to think that such persons are themselves incapable either of attending on or conducting the worship of God. To be consistent, they should copy the prophet in his other typical actions as well as these; and then we shall hear of their lying on their left side for three hundred and ninety days, and on their right side for forty days; shaving their heads, burning their hair, baking their bread with dung, &c. Now all these things, because they were typical and commanded, were proper in the prophet: in such persons as the above they would be evidences of insanity. Such extravagant acts are no part of God's worship.