Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD! They are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of parables?’”
We have here a prophecy of wrath against Judah and Jerusalem, which would more fitly have begun the next chapter than conclude this; for it has no dependence on what goes before, but that which follows in the beginning of the next chapter is the explication of it, when the people complained that this was a parable which they understood not. In this parable, 1.
Commenting on Ezekiel 20:45-49
Ezekiel complains that by this parabolic form of prophecy he only makes himself and it a jest to his countrymen. God therefore in Eze. 21:1-32 permits him to express the same prophecy more plainly. Next: Ezekiel Chapter 21
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables? (z) The people said that the prophet spoke darkly: therefore he desires the Lord to give them a plain declaration of it.