4For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
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But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The title here given to Ezekiel, as often afterwards, is very observable. God, when he speaks to him, calls him, Son of man ( Ezek. 2:1 , 3 ), Son of Adam, Son of the earth . Daniel is once called so (Dan. 8:17) and but once; the compellation is used to no other of the prophets but to Ezekiel all along. We may take it, 1. As a humble diminishing title. Lest Ezekiel should be lifted up with the abu…
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