Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 12:23

23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD, I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel: but say unto them, the dayes are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

Either who use the proverb, or are stumbled at it, tell the one to convince, the other to instruct them.

Thus they abuse my patience and affront my truth, and deride my justice, but when my patience at its period, calls in my justice to vindicate it, and when calamities felt, prove my truth and the presence of these sorrows, there can be no more place for such a proverb, the groundlesness of it being discovered to all.

Assure them.

Verse 22. They draw near indeed, when within some three years and Ierusalem shall see the Enemy besieging it, and feel his Sword cutting down her chosen men.

All that which the vision contained shall ere few years are over clearly appear accomplished according to what my Prophets foretold.

Marginal references: Heb. draw near.