THEOSISEphraem the Syrian
I will fasten your tongue to your throat. This illustrates the plight of the beleaguered Jews, who, due to their thirst, were compared to the silent, stripped of the power to communicate.
Ezekiel 3:26Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And I will make thy tongue stick fast to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth: because they are a provoking house.
וּלְשֽׁוֹנְךָ֙ אַדְבִּ֣יק אֶל־חִכֶּ֔ךָ וְנֶֽאֱלַ֔מְתָּ וְלֹא־תִֽהְיֶ֥ה לָהֶ֖ם לְאִ֣ישׁ מוֹכִ֑יחַ כִּ֛י בֵּ֥ית מְרִ֖י הֵֽמָּה׃
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Theodoret of Cyrus
The Lord, akin to a pestle, embraces the Prophet as a determined wrestler, revealing to him the impending grief and hardships that the people will impose upon him. He instructs him to endure, to remain patient, and to maintain silence until He permits him to voice his words. Each time, He emphasizes, 'For the house of the angry is wrathful,' thereby teaching not to fear those who provoke God's anger; for those who act without law merit disdain.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Ezek 24:27In that day, I say, shall thy mouth be opened to him that hath escaped, and thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no more: and thou shalt be unto them for a sign of things to come, and you shall know that I am the Lord.
- Amos 8:11Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth a famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst of water, but of hearing the word of the Lord.
- Amos 8:12And they shall move from sea to sea, and from the north to the east: they shall go about seeking the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
- Ps 51 (50):15
- Luke 1:20And behold, thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be able to speak until the day wherein these things shall come to pass: because thou hast not believed my words, which shall be fulfilled in their time.
- Luke 1:22And when he came out, he could not speak to them: and they understood that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he made signs to them and remained dumb.
- Ps 137 (136):6
- Mic 3:6Therefore night shall be to you instead of vision, and darkness to you instead of divination: and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be darkened over them.