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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 4:7 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Eze 4:7	King James	Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
arm . . . uncovered--to be ready for action, which the long Oriental garment usually covered it would prevent (Isa 52:10). thou shalt prophesy against it--This gesture of thine will be a tacit prophecy against it.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

arm . . . uncovered--to be ready for action, which the long Oriental garment usually covered it would prevent (Isa 52:10).

thou shalt prophesy against it--This gesture of thine will be a tacit prophecy against it.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Therefore thou shalt set thy face - Or, "And etc." i. e., direct thy mind to that subject. Thine arm shall be uncovered - A sign of the execution of vengeance Isa 52:10.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Therefore thou shalt set thy face - Or, "And etc." i. e., direct thy mind to that subject.

Thine arm shall be uncovered - A sign of the execution of vengeance Isa 52:10.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Set - While thou liest on thy side thou shalt fix thy countenance on the portrait of besieged Jerusalem. Uncovered - Naked and stretched out as being ready to strike.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Set - While thou liest on thy side thou shalt fix thy countenance on the portrait of besieged Jerusalem. Uncovered - Naked and stretched out as being ready to strike.

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