2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

Other Translations of Ezekiel 3:2

New International Version

2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.

English Standard Version

2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat.

The Message

2 As I opened my mouth, he gave me the scroll to eat,

New King James Version

2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

New Living Translation

2 So I opened my mouth, and he fed me the scroll.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 3:2

Commentary on Ezekiel 3:1-11

(Read Ezekiel 3:1-11)

Ezekiel was to receive the truths of God as the food for his soul, and to feed upon them by faith, and he would be strengthened. Gracious souls can receive those truths of God with delight, which speak terror to the wicked. He must speak all that, and that only, which God spake to him. How can we better speak God's mind than with his words? If disappointed as to his people, he must not be offended. The Ninevites were wrought upon by Jonah's preaching, when Israel was unhumbled and unreformed. We must leave this unto the Divine sovereignty, and say, Lord, thy judgments are a great deep. They will not regard the word of the prophet, for they will not regard the rod of God. Christ promises to strengthen him. He must continue earnest in preaching, whatever the success might be.