Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 12:6

6 In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign to the house of Israel.

Verse 4. l. p. in Testimony of the servitude they shall be reduced to, who then must do what Servants or beasts were wont to be employed in.

Either the stuffe or thy self, thou shalt go forth in the twilight, when there is a little light to guide thy way, but more darkness to conceal thy person and thy flight.

As full of shame, and exceeding unwilling to be seen or known.

There is good reason why thou shouldest do this, how strange, unmanly, or ridiculous so ever this may seem; the moral concerns the house of Israel and its King; I have set thee for a sign to them, and thou shalt tell them the meaning of these Hieroglyphicks in due time.