Ezekiel 21:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. ”

Ezekiel 21:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet was directed to let the people see him sighing and prostrate, as a sign of the sorrow and weakness about to come upon the people. The breaking of thy loins - The prostration of stre...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with breaking (d) heart; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. (d) As though you were in extreme anguish.
Ezekiel 21:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 20:45 to Ezekiel 21:32 . The Terrible Sword of Nebuchadrezzar. Here again, as shortly before (chs. 18f.), a piece of theological oratory is followed by a poem this time a wild irregular...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. Sigh - with the breaking of thy loins - Let thy mourning for this sore calamity be like...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

With the breaking of thy loins— With trembling or shivering of loins. The allusion seems to be to the pangs of a woman in child-birth. See Isaiah 21:3 . Jeremiah 30:6 .
Ezekiel 21:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. Sigh therefore ... with the breaking of thy loins - as one afflicted with pleurisy...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

3, 4. The righteous and the wicked ] corresponding to the green tree and the dry in the parable ( Ezekiel 20:47 ). In spite of his strict theory of retribution in Ezekiel 18 , Ezekiel recognised th...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

With the breaking of thy loins. — The loins were regarded as the seat of strength ( Job 40:16 ); and the breaking of these, therefore, expresses entire prostration. Comp. Psalms 66:11 ; Psalms 69...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE SWORD UNSHEATHED Ezekiel 21:1-32 THE date at the beginning of chapter 20 introduces the fourth and last section of the prophecies delivered before the destruction of Jerusalem. It also divi...
Ezekiel 21:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The commission was then repeated in terms of explanation. Ezekiel was to set his face against Jerusalem, and prophesy against the land of Israel, declaring that Jehovah would draw His sword out of it...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It should seem that this was but a continuation of the preceding chapter, where the Lord had commanded the Prophet to set his face toward the south, and prophecy. For, as the Prophet complained that...
Ezekiel 21:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Sigh, therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins ,.... As if thy loins were broke, and go as if they were, and sigh as thou goest; or as a woman in travail, having her hands upon her...
Ezekiel 21:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of [thy] loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes. Ver. 6. Sigh therefore, with the breaking of thy loins. ] Gemituque et gestu dolorem...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Sigh, therefore, with the breaking of thy loins , &c. Show all the tokens of grief and concern; sigh and groan deeply; let the sense of these impending judgments so greatly affect thee, as to ma...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Threatenings against Israel; Judgments Predicted. B. C. 592. 1 And the word of the L ORD...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Sigh; thereby express to them deepest sorrows for what is present, and most piercing fears of what is to come. With the breaking of thy loins; like a woman in travail, or as one whose griefs are...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Sigh, therefore, you son of man. You will sigh with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness before their eyes. And it will be when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?', that you will say, ‘Bec...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE FIRE AND SWORD OF DIVINE JUSTICE GO FORTH AGAINST HEATHENISED JERUSALEM. (Chap. 21). EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The people had turned all their hopes towards the mother country,—the city and kingdom. The...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 21:2 . Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places. In the Latin bibles, this chapter begins at 21:45 of the preseding, which preserves unity in the...
Ezekiel 21:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Wherefore sighest thou? .. .For the tidings. Sighing because of sorrowful tidings “The tidings” were, in the first place, of dishonour done to God, and, in the second place, of ruin which the...
Ezekiel 21:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ezekiel 21:2 , Ezekiel 21:3 The opening words, reproducing those of Ezekiel 20:46 , indicate that the interpretation of that parable is coming. So the three variants of "so...
Ezekiel 21:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sword of the Lord.
Ezekiel 21:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 5:6 ; Daniel 8:27 ; Ezekiel 12:3-5 ; Ezekiel 21:12 ; Ezekiel 37:20 ; Ezekiel 4:12 ; Ezekiel 6:11 ; Ezekiel 9:4 ; Habakkuk 3:16 ; Isaiah 16:11 ; Isaiah 21:3 ; Isaiah 22:4 ; Jeremia...
Ezekiel 21:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sigh therefore — Thereby express deep sorrow. Breaking of thy loins — Like a woman in travail.

Ezekiel 21:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 21:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 21:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 21:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 21:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 21:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 21:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 21:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 21:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 21:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 21:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 21:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 21:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes