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The book of Ezekiel is notoriously strange. Ezekiel's visions, actions, and words are bizarre "sometimes utterly incomprehensible" to us. He lies on his side for over a year, he eats a scroll, he is asked to cook with human waste, and he cannot cry at his wife's death. Ezekiel's message seems unavailable to many because we simply don't have "ears to hear."

the prophet himself. If he is obedient in giving the warning, he will live; if he is not, he will die. Yahweh himself serves as the watchman warning Ezekiel in these verses. Ezekiel must decide whether he will turn toward Yahweh’s call and live, or disobey and die. Ezekiel is to pronounce warning to both the wicked and the righteous. These two categories form a merism, a figure of speech used to describe a whole by referring to its opposite extremes.4 This merism shows that Ezekiel is prohibited
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