Ezekiel 2:9,10 - Words of lament and mourning and woe

2:9,10

Jeremiah had visions when God spoke to him, and Ezekiel has a similar experience. He sees an outstretched hand and it was a scroll. God then unrolled the scroll before Ezekiel. We have a picture of revelation here. God reaches out to us, He gives us His word, and then He unrolls the word out to us. We receive from God.

The scroll had writing on both sides. This was quite unusual as the scrolls at the time just had writing on one side, they were not of good enough quality to have writing on both sides. It was not until the about the first century AD that that came in. The scroll contained words of “lament, mourning and woe”. We need to face up to the reality of the situation if we are to come to a solution.