Ezekiel 3:14

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong hand of the LORD upon me.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully.

Hebrew Names Version
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

King James Version
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

English Standard Version
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.

New American Standard Bible
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

New Century Version
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I was unhappy and angry, and I felt the great power of the Lord .

Amplified Bible
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went embittered [by the sins of Israel] in the rage of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

World English Bible
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So the spirit lift me vp, and tooke me away and I went in bitternesse, and indignation of my spirite, but the hand of the Lorde was strong vpon me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the rage of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong on me.

Legacy Standard Bible
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away; and I went embittered in the wrath of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

Contemporary English Version
Then the Spirit carried me away. The Lord 's power had taken complete control of me, and I was both annoyed and angry.

Complete Jewish Bible
So a spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and the heat of my spirit, with the hand of Adonai strong on me.

Darby Translation
And the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I was very sad and upset in my spirit, but I felt the Lord 's power in me.

George Lamsa Translation
So the spirit lifted me up, and carried me away, and I went in the strength of my spirit; and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Good News Translation
The power of the Lord came on me with great force, and as his spirit carried me off, I felt bitter and angry.

Lexham English Bible
And the Spirit lifted me and took me, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

Literal Translation
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me, and I went bitterly in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now when the sprete toke me vp, and caried me awaye, I wente with an heuy and a soroufull mynde, but the honde off ye LORDE comforted me right soone.

American Standard Version
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.

Bible in Basic English
And the wind, lifting me up, took me away: and I went in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the Lord was strong on me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So a spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

King James Version (1611)
So the spirit lifted me vp, and tooke me away, and I went in bitternesse, in the heate of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong vpon mee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe when the spirite lift me vp and tooke me away, I went in bitternesse and furie of my spirite: but the hande of the Lorde vpon me was strong.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Spirit lifted me, and took me up, and I went in the impulse of my spirit; and the hand of the Lord was mighty upon me.

English Revised Version
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away: and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also the spirit reiside me, and took me. And Y yede forth bittir in the indignacioun of my spirit; for the hond of the Lord was with me, and coumfortide me.

Update Bible Version
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me.

Webster's Bible Translation
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

New English Translation
A wind lifted me up and carried me away. I went bitterly, my spirit full of fury, and the hand of the Lord rested powerfully on me.

New King James Version
So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me.

New Living Translation
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I went in bitterness and turmoil, but the Lord 's hold on me was strong.

New Life Bible
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away. And I went with a bitter and angry spirit. The hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

New Revised Standard
The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away, - and I went bitterly, in the rage of my spirit, but the hand of Yahweh upon me was strong.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The spirit also lifted me, and took me up: and I went away in bitterness in the indignation of my spirit: for the hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening me.

Revised Standard Version
The Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me;

Young's Literal Translation
And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me [is] strong.

THE MESSAGE
The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went bitterly and angrily. I didn't want to go. But God had me in his grip. I arrived among the exiles who lived near the Kebar River at Tel Aviv. I came to where they were living and sat there for seven days, appalled.

Contextual Overview

¹"Son of man," He said to me, "eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel." ²So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll. ³"Son of man," He said to me, "eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you." So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. ⁴Then He said to me, "Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them. ⁵For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel- ⁶not to many peoples of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you. ⁷But the house of Israel will be unwilling to listen to you, since they are unwilling to listen to Me. For the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate. ⁸Behold, I will make your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. ⁹I will make your forehead like a diamond, harder than flint. Do not be afraid of them or dismayed at their presence, even though they are a rebellious house." ¹⁰"Son of man," He added, "listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the spirit: Ezekiel 3:12, Ezekiel 8:3, Ezekiel 37:1

in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit: Heb. bitter in hot anger, Numbers 11:11-19, Jeremiah 6:11, Jeremiah 20:14-18, John 4:1, John 4:3, John 4:9

but: Ezekiel 1:3, Ezekiel 8:1, Ezekiel 37:1, 1 Kings 18:46, 2 Kings 2:16, 2 Kings 3:15, Jeremiah 20:7-9

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:1 - General Exodus 4:13 - send Exodus 11:8 - a great anger 1 Chronicles 28:19 - by his hand upon me Job 32:18 - the spirit Psalms 39:3 - General Proverbs 14:10 - heart Ecclesiastes 2:17 - work Isaiah 8:11 - with a strong hand Jeremiah 1:17 - confound thee Jeremiah 17:16 - I have Jeremiah 20:9 - was in Ezekiel 2:2 - General Ezekiel 3:22 - the hand Ezekiel 11:1 - the spirit Ezekiel 40:1 - hand Jonah 1:3 - to flee Micah 3:8 - I am Habakkuk 3:16 - my belly Matthew 4:1 - of the spirit Luke 4:1 - and was Acts 4:20 - we cannot Acts 9:13 - Lord Acts 18:5 - was Acts 26:19 - I was not 1 Corinthians 9:17 - against Revelation 10:9 - Take Revelation 10:10 - my belly Revelation 21:10 - he carried

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"

Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Genesis 3:20
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Leviticus 20:25
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

Psalms 72:9
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 29:4
You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away,.... Lifted him up from the earth, and carried him through the air:

and I went in bitterness; full of trouble and sorrow, that the Lord was departing from the temple; that his people had been guilty, of such crimes they had, and were such an impudent, and hardhearted people they were; and that such judgments were coming upon them he had seers written in the roll, full of lamentations, mourning, and woe:

in the heat of my spirit; the Targum and Vulgate Latin render it, "in the indignation of my spirit"; his spirit was hot and angry, he was froward and unwilling to go on the errand, to prophesy sad and dismal things to his people:

but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me; the Spirit of the Lord powerfully wrought upon him, and obliged him to go; and the hand of the Lord strengthened him, and removed his frowardness and perverseness of spirit. The Targum is,

"and prophecy from before the Lord was strong upon me;''

so Kimchi interprets it of the hand of prophecy; the Spirit of the Lord, as a spirit of prophecy, came upon him, with great impulse upon his spirit, and he could not refuse going to his people, to declare it to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lifted me up - We are not to suppose that the prophet was miraculously transported from one place to another in the land of his captivity. Compare Matthew 4:1; Acts 8:39. He had been in an ecstatic vision Ezekiel 1:1, and now guided by the Spirit he goes forth among his countrymen.

The heat of my spirit - Full of the righteous indignation, which God inspired, against the sin which he was to denounce.

But the hand - and “the hand.” The Lord strengthened him for his mission.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 3:14. I went in bitterness — Being filled with indignation at the wickedness and obstinacy of my people, I went, determining to speak the word of God without disguise, and to reprove them sharply for their rebellion; and yet I was greatly distressed because of the heavy message which I was commanded to deliver.