Earlier in Ezekiel’s career as a prophet and watchman, Jehovah had told him: “Your very tongue I will make stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will certainly become mute, and you will not become to them a man administering reproof, because they are a rebellious house.
( Ecēhiēla 25. — 32. nodaļa.) Iepriekš Jehova bija teicis Ecēhiēlam: ” Es likšu tavai mēlei pielipt pie tava žokļa, ka tu paliec mēms un nebūsi tiem vairs par pamācītāju, jo tie ir pretestības pilna un nepaklausīga cilts.