Ezekiel 2:8--3:11
Do <01961> [Be.]
Open <06475> [open.]
hand <03027> [an hand.]
scroll <04039> [a roll.]
[All ancient books were written so as to be rolled up: hence]
{volumen,} a volume, from {volvo,} I roll.
unrolled <06566> [spread.]
before ...... writing .... front .... written <06440 03789> [was written within.]
Contrary to the state of rolls in general, which are written on the inside only.
laments <07015> [lamentations.]
eat <0398> [eat.]
This must have passed in a vision; but the meaning is plain: Receive ny word into thy mind, let it enter into they soul; digest it, let it be they nourishment, they meat and thy drink, to do the will of thy Father who is in heaven.
<03212> [go.]
fill <04390> [and fill.]
feed .................. ate <0398> [Then.]
mouth <06310> [it was.]
sent <07971> [thou.]
unintelligible speech .... language <06012 08193 03515 03956> [of a strange speech and of an hard language. Heb. deep of lip and heavy of tongue: and so.]
unintelligible speech ... difficult language <06012 08193 03515 03956> [of a strange speech and of an hard language. Heb. deep of lip and heavy of language. Surely, etc. or, If I had sent thee to them, would they not have hearkened? etc.]
Israel ... unwilling .......... willing ........... Israel <014 03478> [Israel will.]
house ...................... house <01004> [all the.]
hard-headed ... hard-hearted <07186 02389> [impudent and hard-hearted. Heb. stiff of forehead and hard of heart.]
diamond <08068> [adamant.]
fear <03372> [fear.]
take <03947> [receive.]
<0935> [get.]
countrymen <01121> [the children.]
speak <01696> [speak.]