Ezekiel 12

Ezekiel 12:3

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight.

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee all necessary commodities for a remove, and long exile; and pack up thy fardels by day, in their sight.

Ezekiel 12:5

Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

And, that thy very actions may be prophetical, dig thou through the wall in their sight; to foreshew unto them, that they shall not have a free egress out of their city, but shall be glad to seek all secret evasions to save themselves.

Ezekiel 12:6

Thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

Thou shalt hoodwink thyself, and hide thy face, so as that thou see not the ground; to foreshew the great anxiety and sorrow, wherewith the Jews shall depart into their captivity; and, withal, the excocation of their king Zedekiah, who shall not behold that Babylonish earth, that he shall tread upon: for I have made and appointed this act of thine, to be a presage of their future captivity.

Ezekiel 12:11

Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them.

Say, God hath appointed to prefigure and foresignify in me, what he means to do unto you.

Ezekiel 12:13

My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

I will encompass and take him by the forces of the Chaldees, as a fish is taken by a net, &c., and I will bring him to Babylon; yet shall he not see the land before him, for his eyes shall be put out by the king of Babylon; there shall he live and die, in a woeful blindness.

Ezekiel 12:16

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Those few will I purposely leave alive, that they may give glory to me, in confessing the shameful abominations of their people, which brought all this fearful desolation upon them; so as the very heathen may herein justify me, and know me to be the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:18

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness.

Son of man, when thou eatest thy meals, do thou, in thy feeding, express a kind of trembling and quaking; and, in thy drinking of water, express a frightfulness, and amazed suspicion of the approach of an enemy.

Ezekiel 12:22

Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

What mean the Jews to mock at thy prophecies, and to say, Tush, either it will be long ere these things fall out, or never; they are but vain bugs, wherewith the prophets would affright us?