This paragraph is, in the Hebrew text, Septuagint, and Vulgate, the beginning of Ezekiel 21:0, to which it belongs, as it contains a prophecy deliv…

Does he not speak parables? —Or enigmas—things that we cannot understand. This the prophet did intentionally, as he had done in ot…

Then said I, ah Lord God ! &c.] The Septuagint version is, "by no means, Lord, Lord"; that is, let me not be sent on such…

Judah and Jerusalem had been full of people, like a forest of trees, but empty of fruit. God's word prophesies against those who do not produce the…