Ezekiel 12:10
Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them. Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.
Ezekiel 12:10 belongs to the first twenty chapters of Ezekiel, spoken while Ezekiel served as God's mouthpiece among the captives in Babylonia. It belongs to an acted-out sign of Jerusalem's siege and coming captivity in which Ezekiel carried his possessions as if fleeing, dug through a wall, and moved them away at night. He was to explain that he himself was a sign to them.
The dramatized departure represents the prince in Jerusalem and the Israelites living there moving into forced departure and exile. The prince in Jerusalem is Zedekiah. In the days of Zedekiah, about B.C. 590, God permitted the Babylonians to deprive the kingdom of Israel of its king.
The burden against the prince means the taking away of the throne on which Solomon and his successors had sat as the throne of the Lord, because it had become so corrupt that it misrepresented its King and failed to present a holy nation to the world. In the connected verses the acted sign foretells removal into captivity, with the prince captured and taken to Babylon and the people scattered among the nations. This scattering is linked to Israel's historical dispersal and, in the passage's prophetic chronology, to the scattering of God's people until they are gathered together in Christ at the fullness of times.