Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 21:7

7 And it shall be, when they say unto thee, wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

This directs the Prophet what account to give them, when they shall, as they certainly will, enquire what he meaneth by such unusual sorrows.

Is it any private misery, that makes thee sigh thus, or do'es it bode evil to others, or to us?

The saddest News you ever heard is coming, 'twill most assuredly come.

The courage of the stoutest heart shall fail, which shall appear in the feebleness of their Hands, dejectedness of their Spirit, and their Knees not able to support the Body; such Terrors shall seize them as shall make them unable to shift from, or to make head against the evils, that come against them.

None can prevent it.

For the News that is told me from Heaven, for the certain Rumour of Nebuchadnezzars preparations, and march against you.

It shall have its full effect, nothing shall be wanting to your compleat undoing, and then, as I do for a sign to you, so you, and yours shall do under the sorrows signified, sigh, and weep, to their breaking your very heart.

Marginal references: Heb. go into water.