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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 5:1 - 5:1
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Eze 5:1-17. Vision of cutting the hairs, and the calamities foreshadowed thereby.
knife ... razor - the sword of the foe (compare Isa 7:20). This vision implies even severer judgments than the Egyptian afflictions foreshadowed in the former, for their guilt was greater than that of their forefathers.
thine head - as representative of the Jews. The whole hair being shaven off was significant of severe and humiliating (2Sa 10:4, 2Sa 10:5) treatment. Especially in the case of a priest; for priests (Lev 21:5) were forbidden “to make baldness on their head,” their hair being the token of consecration; hereby it was intimated that the ceremonial must give place to the moral.
balances - implying the just discrimination with which Jehovah weighs out the portion of punishment “divided,” that is, allotted to each: the “hairs” are the Jews: the divine scales do not allow even one hair to escape accurate weighing (compare Mat 10:30).