Ezekiel 3:26 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 3:26

I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.

BSB

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ASV

and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

KJV

And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17 (604)

And again, because of the fault of those subject to them, the voice of preachers is forbidden, as the Lord says to Ezekiel: "I will make your tongue cleave to your palate, and you shall be mute, and not as a man who rebukes, because it is a provoking house." As if he were to say openly: Therefore the word of preaching is taken from you, because while the people provoke me in their actions, they are not worthy to receive the exhortation of truth. From whose fault, therefore, the word is withdrawn from the preacher is not easily known.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He shall not give them instructions and admonitions, for they are lost and thrown away upon them. He is before commanded to speak boldly to them because they are most rebellious ( ch. ii. 7 ); but, since that proves to no purpose, he is now for that reason enjoined silence and shall not speak at all to them.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּלְשֽׁוֹנְךָ֙	u.le.shon.Kha	and tongue your	H3956 →
אַדְבִּ֣יק	'ad.Bik	I will make stick	H1692 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
חִכֶּ֔ךָ	chi.Ke.kha	palate your	H2441 →
וְנֶֽאֱלַ֔מְתָּ	ve.ne.'e.Lam.ta	and you will be dumb	H481 →
וְלֹא־	ve.lo'-	and not	H3808 →
תִֽהְיֶ֥ה	tih.Yeh	you will become	H1961 →
לָהֶ֖ם	la.Hem	to them
לְאִ֣ישׁ	le.'Ish	<into> a person	H376 →
מוֹכִ֑יחַ	mo.Khi.ach	[who] reproves	H3198 →
כִּ֛י	ki	for	H3588 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	[are] a house of	H1004 →
מְרִ֖י	me.Ri	rebellion	H4805 →
הֵֽמָּה׃	He.mah	they	H1992 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 137:6
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
leads to
- Psalms 22:15
  My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You lay me in the dust of death.
- Job 29:10
  The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.
- Psalms 84:10
  For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
- Isaiah 41:17
  The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Lamentations 4:4
  The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.
Through
Ezekiel 24:27
On that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped; you will speak and no longer be mute. So you will be a sign to them, and they will know that…
leads to
- Ezekiel 33:22
  Now the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened…
- Ezekiel 29:21
  In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth to speak among them. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Luke 21:15
  For I will give you speech and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Ezekiel

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Ezekiel