Ezekiel 2:10. He spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
The manuscript rolls were usually written only on one side, though sometimes both sides were used. This was the case with the roll which Ezekiel saw. So numerous were the troubles which were to come upon the children of Israel that the roll which contained an account of them was completely filled, it being necessary to write on both sides. Something like this is thought to be meant in Revelation 5:1. See note on Isaiah 34:4 (#511).