Ezekiel Chapter 2 verse 10 Holy Bible
And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.
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And he spread it out before me; and it was written within and without; and there were written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it `are' lamentations, and mourning, and wo!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - It was written within and without. Commonly such rolls, whether of vellum or papyrus, were written on one side only. This, like the tables of stone (Exodus 32:15), was written, as a symbol of the fulness of its message, on both sides. And as he looked at the roll thus "spread before" him, he saw that it was no evangel, no glad tidings, that he had thus to identify with his work, but one from first to last of lamentations, and mourning, and woe. Jeremiah had been known as the prophet of weeping, and was about this time (probably a little later) writing his own Lamentations (the Hebrew title of the book, however, is simply its first words) over the fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel's work was to be of a like nature. The word meets us again (Ezekiel 19:1, 14; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:2, 32; Ezekiel 28:12; Ezekiel 32:2, 16) as the keynote of his writings. Out of such a book, though the glad tidings were to come afterwards, his own prophetic work was to be evolved.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) He spread it before me.--The roll was given to the prophet open, as the book in Revelation 10:8, that he might first see it all as a whole, before becoming thoroughly possessed with it in detail. What he saw was "lamentations, and mourning, and woe;" in other words, this was the whole character of the message he was commissioned to bear until the great judgment in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple should be fulfilled, when, after Ezekiel 33, his prophecies assume a consolatory character. (See Introduction, VI)
