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Ezequiel 12:22

Hijo del hombre, ¿qué refrán es este que tenéis vosotros en la tierra de Israel, diciendo: Prolongarse han los días, y perecerá toda visión?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Infidelity;   Procrastination;   Prophecy;   Proverbs;   Scoffing;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel, Book of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezekiel;   Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Protevangelium;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Proverb;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Parable;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fail;   Games;   Proverb;   Vision;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Hijo de hombre, ¿qué proverbio es ése que vosotros tenéis acerca de la tierra de Israel, que dice: "Se alargan los días y desaparece toda visión"?
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Hijo de hombre, �qu� refr�n es �ste que ten�is vosotros en la tierra de Israel, diciendo: Se prolongan los d�as, y toda visi�n desaparece?
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Hijo de hombre, �qu� refr�n es �ste que ten�is vosotros en la tierra de Israel, diciendo: Se prolongar�n los d�as, y perecer� toda visi�n?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

what: Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3, Jeremiah 23:33-40

The days: Ezekiel 12:27, Ezekiel 11:3, Isaiah 5:19, Jeremiah 5:12, Jeremiah 5:13, Amos 6:3, 2 Peter 3:3, 2 Peter 3:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 14:14 - but what Jeremiah 1:12 - I will Jeremiah 17:15 - General Lamentations 4:18 - our end is near Ezekiel 7:2 - unto Ezekiel 21:7 - it cometh Ezekiel 21:23 - as a Hosea 9:7 - days of visitation Joel 1:15 - the day of Amos 5:18 - desire Habakkuk 1:5 - for Matthew 24:48 - My Luke 12:45 - and if Romans 2:4 - despisest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, what [is] that proverb [that] ye have in the land of Israel,.... Which question is put, as ignorant of it, but as filled with indignation at the impiety and boldness of those that used it, and in order to expose the wickedness and folly of it:

saying, the days are prolonged; the days of affliction and distress; the time of Jerusalem's destruction, and of the Babylonish captivity, these were not to be of a long time; and therefore they were ready to flatter themselves they would never be, at least in their days; and hence, because judgment was not immediately executed, their hearts were set in them to do evil; and thus they abused the patience and long suffering of God, and they used this and the following expression so often, and so long, that they became proverbial to them:

and every vision faileth? or "perishes" b; every prophecy comes to nothing; no one is fulfilled; at least because not at, once, therefore they concluded it never would, or, however, hoped it never would; and so pleased themselves, and continued in their impenitence and unbelief, and contempt of prophecy.

b אבד "peribit", Munster, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator "periit", Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As in Ezekiel 7:0, the nearness of the judgment is foretold.

Ezekiel 12:22

The land of Israel - is put generally for the land where the children of Israel dwelt, whether at home, or in exile. There was prevalent a disregard for the true prophets, which is ever followed by a recognition of the false. First, the true prophet is rejected because it is thought that his prophecies fail. Then men persuade themselves that if the prophecy be true it respects some distant time, and that the men of the present generation need not disturb themselves about it. Compare Jeremiah 1:11; Amos 6:3; Matthew 24:43; 1 Thessalonians 5:2; 2 Peter 3:4. Against both these delusions Ezekiel is commissioned to protest, and so to lead the way to his condemnation of his countrymen for their blind reliance on false prophets.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 12:22. The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? — These are the words of the infidels and scoffers, who, because vengeance was not speedily executed on an evil work, set their heart to do iniquity. "These predictions either will not come in our days, or will wholly fail; why then should we disquiet ourselves about them?" Strange, that the very means used by the most gracious God to bring sinners to repentance, should be made by them the very instruments of their own destruction! See 2 Peter 3:4.


 
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