The prophet, now within his own house (chapter 3:21), was to make a representation of the siege of Jerusalem for a sign to the house of Israel (verse 3). Ezekiel, as Jeremiah and as Daniel, though each in a different way, was brought into a deep realization of the iniquity of the people of God, to feel their distance from Him, and the justness of the judgment executed, and to be executed, upon them.