Ezechiele 3:14

14 Lo Spirito adunque mi levò, e mi prese; ed io andai, essendo tutto in amaritudine, per lo sdegno del mio spirito; e la mano del Signore fu forte sopra me.

Ezechiele 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 3:14

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away
Lifted him up from the earth, and carried him through the air: and I went in bitterness;
full of trouble and sorrow, that the Lord was departing from the temple; that his people had been guilty, of such crimes they had, and were such an impudent, and hardhearted people they were; and that such judgments were coming upon them he had seers written in the roll, full of lamentations, mourning, and woe: in the heat of my spirit;
the Targum and Vulgate Latin render it, "in the indignation of my spirit"; his spirit was hot and angry, he was froward and unwilling to go on the errand, to prophesy sad and dismal things to his people: but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me;
the Spirit of the Lord powerfully wrought upon him, and obliged him to go; and the hand of the Lord strengthened him, and removed his frowardness and perverseness of spirit. The Targum is,

``and prophecy from before the Lord was strong upon me;''

so Kimchi interprets it of the hand of prophecy; the Spirit of the Lord, as a spirit of prophecy, came upon him, with great impulse upon his spirit, and he could not refuse going to his people, to declare it to them.

Ezechiele 3:14 In-Context

12 E lo Spirito mi levò ad alto, ed io udii dietro a me una voce, con un grande scrollamento, che diceva: Benedetta sia la gloria del Signore dal suo luogo.

13 Io udii eziandio il suono dell’ali degli animali, che battevano l’una all’altra; e il suono delle ruote allato a quelle, e il romor di un grande scrollamento.

14 Lo Spirito adunque mi levò, e mi prese; ed io andai, essendo tutto in amaritudine, per lo sdegno del mio spirito; e la mano del Signore fu forte sopra me.

15 E venni a quelli ch’erano in cattività in Tel-abib, che dimoravano presso al fiume Chebar; e mi posi a sedere dove essi sedevano; e dimorai quivi sette giorni, nel mezzo di loro, tutto attonito, e desolato.

16 ED in capo di sette giorni, la parola del Signore mi fu indirizzata, dicendo: