Ezequiel 3:14

14 El Espíritu me levantó y se apoderó de mí, y me fui amargado y enardecido, mientras la mano del SEÑOR me sujetaba con fuerza.

Ezequiel 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.

Ezequiel 3:14 In-Context

12 Entonces el Espíritu de Dios me levantó, y detrás de mí oí decir con el estruendo de un terremoto: «¡Bendita sea la gloria del SEÑOR, donde él habita!»

13 Oí el ruido de las alas de los seres vivientes al rozarse unas con otras, y el de las ruedas que estaban junto a ellas, y el ruido era estruendoso.

14 El Espíritu me levantó y se apoderó de mí, y me fui amargado y enardecido, mientras la mano del SEÑOR me sujetaba con fuerza.

15 Así llegué a Tel Aviv, a orillas del río Quebar, adonde estaban los israelitas exiliados, y totalmente abatido me quedé con ellos durante siete días.

16 Al cabo de los siete días, el SEÑOR me dijo lo siguiente: