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Ezek. 3:1–2 The command to eat is now combined with the commission to go and speak.
Ezek. 3:3 feed your belly. Having tasted the scroll, the prophet learns that the words of mourning are not bitter, as one would expect, but sweet as honey.
Ezek. 3:4 The command to go and speak is repeated in v. 11, framing this second speech (vv. 4–11). While the first speech emphasized divine sending (2:3–4), here the focus is on the prophet’s action.
Ezek. 3:5–7 Contrary to what he expected, Ezekiel is warned that taking God’s word to another nation would be easier than taking God’s words to his own people.
Ezek. 3:10 This charge contains one of the few descriptions of prophetic experience in the OT. Ezekiel’s ministry will have both a psychological (receive in your heart) and an auditory (hear with your ears) element (compare Job 32:18–20; Jer. 20:7–9).
Ezek. 3:14 The phrase in the heat appears 30 times in the OT. The esv generally translates it “in wrath” or “in fury.” Ezekiel has gained God’s perspective on his people’s sin, and his anger reflects that.
Ezek. 3:16–21 Ezekiel is assigned to be a watchman for Judah. This role is expanded in 33:1–9, the passage introducing the second phase of Ezekiel’s ministry.
Ezek. 3:18–19 Although the intent of prophetic messages is clearly to warn the wicked and thus save his life (compare 33:8), the greater concern in these verses is the importance of Ezekiel delivering the warnings faithfully. If the warning is issued, the prophet’s life is saved (delivered your soul; see 3:21), even if the wicked continue to rebel against God.
Ezek. 3:22–23 Here the valley is the broad river valley of Mesopotamia.
Ezek. 3:25–27 Ezekiel has already eaten the message (vv. 1–3) and absorbed God’s perspective on the people’s sin (v. 14). Now his identification with the prophetic message is pushed even further. His actions and words must come under God’s direct control. Ezekiel will be mute until Jerusalem’s fall (see 33:22). So, how will he warn the people if he cannot speak? The solution: the Lord will enable him to speak the words of prophecy (I will open your mouth). The concluding words echo the divine commission in 2:4, 7.
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