Ezekiel 6:12

10 And they shall know that I am the Lord; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.”

11 ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^a“Pound your fists and stamp your feet, and say, ‘Alas, for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! ^bFor they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

12 He who is far off shall die by the pestilence, he who is near shall fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged shall die by the famine. ^aThus will I spend My fury upon them.

13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, ^aon every high hill, ^bon all the mountaintops, ^cunder every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

14 So I will ^astretch out My hand against them and make the land desolate, yes, more desolate than the wilderness toward ^bDiblah, in all their dwelling places. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ ” ’ ”

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 6:11-14

The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment.

Ezekiel 6:11

Smite ... stamp - Well-known modes of expressing grief.

Ezekiel 6:13

Sweet savor - Compare Genesis 8:21. Words, applied to the smell of sacrifices accepted by God, applied here to idol-sacrifices in irony.

Ezekiel 6:14

Toward Diblath - Or, "Diblathaim," the "Diblathan" of the Moabite stone, one of the double cities of Moab (see Ezekiel 25:9) to the east of which lay the great desert of Arabia. Some read: "unto Riblah" Jeremiah 52:9 and take the margin rendering.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Ezekiel 6:12:

Isaiah 1:8

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