Ezekiel 3:12

12. The spirit took me up Literally, a spirit, or wind. (Compare Ezekiel 1:4.) Perhaps the meaning is that the whirlwind lifted him when the glory departed, and notwithstanding his rebellion of spirit took him to his disagreeable lifework; perhaps it refers only to inner compulsion (Ezekiel 3:14).

I heard behind me… a great rushing The chariot of Jehovah leaves at the same time as the prophet, and in the distance he hears the wings of the cherubim “kiss” each other, and the noise of the wheels “beside them,” as they rush forward (Ezekiel 3:13; compare Ezekiel 1:9; Ezekiel 1:11; Ezekiel 1:23).

Saying, Blessed be the glory of the Lord from his place The text here is almost untranslatable, but by the change of one letter we get a reading corresponding to the parallel passages when the glory of the Lord was lifted up (Ezekiel 1:19-24; Ezekiel 10:5; Ezekiel 10:19; Ezekiel 11:22-23).