Ezekiel Chapter 20 verse 49 Holy Bible
Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
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Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?
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And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
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Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?
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And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, They are saying of me, Is he not using similes?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 49. - Doth he not speak parables? We can scarcely wonder that Ezekiel's enigmatic words here, as in ch. 15, 16, and 17, should have called forth some such expression from his hearers; but he obviously records the whisper which he thus heard, in a tone of sorrow and indignation. It was to him a proof, as a like question was to the Christ (Matthew 15:16; Matthew 16:9; Mark 8:21) proof that those hearers were yet without understanding. The question was, for those who asked it, an excuse for hardening their hearts against remonstrances which needed no explanation. The indignation was followed by another interval of silence, during which he brooded over their stubbornness, and at last, in Ezekiel 21:1, the word of the Lord comes to him, and he speaks "no more in proverbs," but interprets the latest parable even in its details.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(49) Doth he not speak parables?--Or enigmas--things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did designedly, as he had done in other cases, to awaken the attention of the people to the explanation he was about to give.
