Ezekiel 6:9

Ezekiel 6:9

7 The slain shall fall in your midst, and ^ayou shall know that I am the Lord.

8 ^a“Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are ^bscattered through the countries.

9 Then those of you who escape will ^aremember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because ^bI was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and ^cby their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; ^dthey will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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they that escape of you shall remember me—The object of God's chastisements shall at last be effected by working in them true contrition. This partially took place in the complete eradication of idolatry from the Jews ever since the Babylonian captivity. But they have yet to repent of their crowning sin, the crucifixion of Messiah; their full repentance is therefore future, after the ordeal of trials for many centuries, ending with that foretold in Zechariah 10:9; Zechariah 13:8-9; Zechariah 14:1-4, Zechariah 14:11. "They shall remember me in far countries" (Ezekiel 7:16; Deuteronomy 30:1-8).

I am broken with their whorish heart—FAIRBAIRN translates, actively, "I will break" their whorish heart; English Version is better. In their exile they shall remember how long I bore with them, but was at last compelled to punish, after I was "broken" (My long-suffering wearied out) by their desperate (Numbers 15:39) spiritual whorishness [CALVIN], (Psalms 78:40; Isaiah 7:13; Isaiah 43:24; Isaiah 63:10).

loathe themselves— (Leviticus 26:39-45; Job 42:6). They shall not wait for men to condemn them but shall condemn themselves (Ezekiel 20:43; Ezekiel 36:31; Job 42:6; I Corinthians 11:31).

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