Ezechiele 3:25

25 E a te, figliuol d’uomo, ecco, ti si metteranno addosso delle corde, con esse ti si legherà, e tu non andrai in mezzo a loro.

Ezechiele 3:25 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 3:25

But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon
thee
Or, "bands shall be put upon thee"; either visionally, or really; not by angels, but by the Jews, who, taking the prophet for a madman by his motions and gestures; would bind him, and keep him within doors: or figuratively this may be understood of the sins of the people, their rebellion and obstinacy, which hindered the prophet from prophesying among them as yet; and so this is observed to conciliate his mind to the divine order, to shut up himself for a while in his own house, and be silent: or else by these bonds may be meant the divine order itself, which restrained him from doing his office as yet. So the Targum,

``behold, I have appointed the words of my mouth upon thee, as a band of ropes with which they bind;''

and shall bind thee with them;
which some think is emblematical of the Jews being bound by the Chaldeans: and thou shall not go out among them;
to converse with them, or prophesy unto them. The Septuagint version renders it, "shall not go out from the midst of them"; as if he should be taken out of his own house by the Jews, and be bound by them, and kept among them, and not able to get away from them; but it is to be understood of his being bound in his own house, and not able to go out of that to them; and may signify, that in like manner the Jews should not be able to go out of Jerusalem when besieged by the Chaldeans.

Ezechiele 3:25 In-Context

23 Io dunque mi levai, uscii nella pianura, ed ecco che quivi stava la gloria dell’Eterno, gloria simile a quella che avevo veduta presso al fiume Kebar; e caddi sulla mia faccia.

24 Ma lo spirito entrò in me; mi fece rizzare in piedi, e l’Eterno mi parlò e mi disse: "Va’, chiuditi in casa tua!

25 E a te, figliuol d’uomo, ecco, ti si metteranno addosso delle corde, con esse ti si legherà, e tu non andrai in mezzo a loro.

26 E io farò che la lingua ti s’attacchi al palato, perché tu rimanga muto e tu non possa esser per essi un censore; perché sono una casa ribelle.

27 Ma quando io ti parlerò, t’aprirò la bocca, e tu dirai loro: Così parla il Signore, l’Eterno; chi ascolta, ascolti; chi non vuole ascoltare non ascolti; poiché sono una casa ribelle.