19And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?
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Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-27)These verses conclude what we have been upon all along from the beginning of this book, to wit, Ezekiel’s prophecies of the destruction of Jerusalem; for after this, though he prophesied much concerning other nations, he said no more concerning Jerusalem, till he heard of the destruction of it, almost three years after, Ezek. 33:21. He had assured them, in the former part of this chapter, that the…
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