Ezekiel 4:8 - Exposition

I will lay bands upon thee , etc. The words point to the supernatural constraint which would support the prophet in a position as trying as that of an Indian yogi or a Stylite monk. He would himself be powerless to move ( exceptis excipiendis, as before) from the prescribed position. There is, perhaps, a reference to Ezekiel 3:25 . The people would have "put bands" upon the prophet to hinder his work; Jehovah will "put bands" upon him to help, nay, to constrain, him to finish it.