Ezekiel 3:14

14 Et l'Esprit m'enleva et m'emporta; je m'en allais irrité et furieux, et la main de l'Éternel agissait sur moi avec puissance.

Ezekiel 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.

Ezekiel 3:14 In-Context

12 Alors l'Esprit m'enleva, et j'entendis derrière moi le bruit d'un grand tumulte: "Bénie soit la gloire de l'Éternel, du lieu de sa demeure! "

13 Et le bruit des ailes des animaux, frappant l'une contre l'autre, et le bruit des roues à côté d'eux, et le bruit d'un grand tumulte.

14 Et l'Esprit m'enleva et m'emporta; je m'en allais irrité et furieux, et la main de l'Éternel agissait sur moi avec puissance.

15 Et je vins à Thel-Abib auprès de ceux qui avaient été transportés, qui demeuraient vers le fleuve du Kébar. Je me tins où ils se tenaient. Je restai là sept jours au milieu d'eux dans un morne silence.

16 Au bout de sept jours, la parole de l'Éternel me fut adressée, en ces mots: