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Verse Ezekiel 21:6. _SIGH - WITH THE BREAKING OF_ THY _LOINS_] Let thy
mourning for this sore calamity be like that of a woman in the pains
of travail....
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The prophet was directed to let the people see him sighing and
prostrate, as a sign of the sorrow and weakness about to come upon the
people.
THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS - The prostration of strength;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Agitation of the prophet at the tidings of the coming calamity. This
agitation of his is only a symbol of the dismay and paralysis that
shall overtake all when the calamity comes. On the figures in Ez...
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WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS— _With trembling or shivering of
loins._ The allusion seems to be to the pangs of a woman in
child-birth. See Isaiah 21:3.Jeremiah 30:6....
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III. ISRAEL'S IMMINENT JUDGMENT
20:45-21:32
In the Hebrew Bible Ezekiel 20:45 becomes the first verse of chapter
21. Clearly this is a better arrangement than that adopted by the
Authorized Version an...
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Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and
with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
SIGH THEREFORE ... WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS - as one afflicted
with pleurisy; or...
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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...
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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...
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WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS. — The loins were regarded as the
seat of strength (Job 40:16); and the breaking of these, therefore,
expresses entire prostration. Comp. Psalms 66:11; Psalms 69:23;...
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_[Ezekiel 21:11]_ וְ אַתָּ֥ה בֶן ־אָדָ֖ם
הֵֽאָנַ֑ח...
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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...
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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...
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Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with breaking (d) heart; and with
bitterness sigh before their eyes.
(d) As though you were in extreme anguish....
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_Bitterness. Septuagint, "pains," like those of child-bearing, Isaias
xxi. 3._...
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It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding
chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face
toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that
t...
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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...
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SIGH, THEREFORE, THOU SON OF MAN, WITH THE BREAKING OF THY LOINS,....
As if thy loins were broke, and go as if they were, and sigh as thou
goest; or as a woman in travail, having her hands upon her lo...
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Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and
with bitterness sigh before their eyes.
Ver. 6. _Sigh therefore, with the breaking of thy loins._] _Gemituque
et gestu dolorem r...
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_Sigh, therefore, with the breaking of thy loins_, &c. Show all the
tokens of grief and concern; sigh and groan deeply; let the sense of
these impending judgments so greatly affect thee, as to make th...
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Sigh, therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins, as
though the very seat of strength would burst; AND WITH BITTERNESS SIGH
BEFORE THEIR EYES, in bitter sorrow and pain over the coming...
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The Sword of the Lord....
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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...
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SIGH; thereby express to them deepest sorrows for what is present, and
most piercing fears of what is to come. WITH THE BREAKING OF THY
LOINS; like a woman in travail, or as one whose griefs are ready...
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Ezekiel 21:6 Sigh H584 (H8734) son H1121 man H120 breaking H7670 heart
H4975 sigh H584 (H8735) bitterness...
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“Sigh, therefore, you son of man. You will sigh with the breaking of
your loins and with bitterness before their eyes. And it will be when
they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?', that you will say, ‘Beca...
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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...
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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...
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_Wherefore sighest thou?_
.. .For the tidings.
SIGHING BECAUSE OF SORROWFUL TIDINGS
“The tidings” were, in the first place, of dishonour done to God,
and, in the second place, of ruin which the tra...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:1 The opening words directly correspond
with those of Ezekiel 20:46: SET YOUR FACE, PREACH,...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 21:6 These verses seem to continue
describing the destruction of both “righteous and wicked” (see
note on vv. 3–4). The GROAN and BREAKING HEART of v.
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THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED
JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21).
EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the
mother country,—the city and kingdom. The p...
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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
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CHAPTER 20:45-49, 21.
THE VISION OF THE LORD'S FIRE AND SWORD.
THE five concluding verses in Ezekiel 20:45-49, as already noticed,
should evidently have been connected with Ezekiel 21, and are justly...
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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...
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Sigh therefore — Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins
— Like a woman in travail....