Ezekiel 2:10
New International Version
which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.

New Living Translation
which he unrolled. And I saw that both sides were covered with funeral songs, words of sorrow, and pronouncements of doom.

English Standard Version
And he spread it before me. And it had writing on the front and on the back, and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

Berean Standard Bible
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

King James Bible
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

New King James Version
Then He spread it before me; and there was writing on the inside and on the outside, and written on it were lamentations and mourning and woe.

New American Standard Bible
When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were songs of mourning, sighing, and woe.

NASB 1995
When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.

NASB 1977
When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back; and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then He spread it out before me, and it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, sighing, and woe.

Amplified Bible
And He spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back, and written on it were [words of] lamentation (funeral songs) and mourning and woe.

Christian Standard Bible
When he unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When He unrolled it before me, it was written on the front and back; words of lamentation, mourning, and woe were written on it.

American Standard Version
and he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he unrolled it in front of me, and it was written on its front and on its back, and there were written in it wailings and funeral dirges and lamentations

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he unrolled it before me: and in it the front and the back were written upon: and there was written in it Lamentation, and mournful song, and woe.

Contemporary English Version
The hand opened the scroll, and both sides of it were filled with words of sadness, mourning, and grief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and he spread it before me, and it was written within and without: and there were written in it lamentations, and canticles, and woe.

English Revised Version
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He spread the scroll in front of me. There was writing on the front and back. There were funeral songs, songs of mourning, and horrible things written on it.

Good News Translation
The hand unrolled the scroll, and I saw that there was writing on both sides--cries of grief were written there, and wails and groans.

International Standard Version
being unrolled right in front of me! Written on both sides were lamentations, mourning, and cries of grief.

JPS Tanakh 1917
and He spread it before me, and it was written within and without; and there was written therein lamentations, and moaning, and woe.

Literal Standard Version
and He spreads it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it [are] lamentations, and mourning, and woe!

Majority Standard Bible
which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

New American Bible
He unrolled it before me; it was covered with writing front and back. Written on it was: Lamentation, wailing, woe!

NET Bible
He unrolled it before me, and it had writing on the front and back; written on it were laments, mourning, and woe.

New Revised Standard Version
He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.

New Heart English Bible
And he spread it before me, and it was written on the front and on the back. And written on it were lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without: and there was written in it lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

World English Bible
He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.

Young's Literal Translation
and He spreadeth it before me, and it is written in front and behind, and written on it are lamentations, and mourning, and woe!

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Context
Ezekiel's Call
9Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll, 10which He unrolled before me. And written on the front and back of it were words of lamentation, mourning, and woe.

Cross References
Revelation 5:1
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.

Revelation 8:13
And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, "Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!"

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.

Ezekiel 19:1
"As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel


Treasury of Scripture

And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

spread

Isaiah 30:8-11
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: …

Habakkuk 2:2
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

was written within.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Jeremiah 36:29-32
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast? …

Revelation 8:13
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

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Ezekiel 2
1. Ezekiel's commission
6. His instruction
9. The scroll of his heavy prophecy














(10) He spread it before me.--The roll was given to the prophet open, as the book in Revelation 10:8, that he might first see it all as a whole, before becoming thoroughly possessed with it in detail. What he saw was "lamentations, and mourning, and woe;" in other words, this was the whole character of the message he was commissioned to bear until the great judgment in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple should be fulfilled, when, after Ezekiel 33, his prophecies assume a consolatory character. (See Introduction, VI)

Verse 10. - It was written within and without. Commonly such rolls, whether of vellum or papyrus, were written on one side only. This, like the tables of stone (Exodus 32:15), was written, as a symbol of the fulness of its message, on both sides. And as he looked at the roll thus "spread before" him, he saw that it was no evangel, no glad tidings, that he had thus to identify with his work, but one from first to last of lamentations, and mourning, and woe. Jeremiah had been known as the prophet of weeping, and was about this time (probably a little later) writing his own Lamentations (the Hebrew title of the book, however, is simply its first words) over the fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel's work was to be of a like nature. The word meets us again (Ezekiel 19:1, 14; Ezekiel 26:17; Ezekiel 27:2, 32; Ezekiel 28:12; Ezekiel 32:2, 16) as the keynote of his writings. Out of such a book, though the glad tidings were to come afterwards, his own prophetic work was to be evolved.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
which He unrolled
וַיִּפְרֹ֤שׂ (way·yip̄·rōś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6566: To break apart, disperse

before me.
לְפָנַ֔י (lə·p̄ā·nay)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440: The face

And written
כְתוּבָ֖ה (ḵə·ṯū·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's 3789: To grave, to write

on the front
פָּנִ֣ים (pā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

and back
וְאָח֑וֹר (wə·’ā·ḥō·wr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 268: The hinder part, behind, backward, the West

of it
אֵלֶ֔יהָ (’ê·le·hā)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

[were] words of lamentation,
קִנִ֥ים (qi·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7015: An elegy, dirge

mourning,
וָהֶ֖גֶה (wā·he·ḡeh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1899: A rumbling, growling, moaning

and woe.
וָהִֽי׃ (wā·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1958: Lamentation, wailing


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