Ezekiel 22:2
Judge — The question is doubled, to awaken the prophet more fully, and to quicken him to his work.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judge — The question is doubled, to awaken the prophet more fully, and to quicken him to his work.... [ Continue Reading ]
Her time — The time of ripeness in her sins, and of execution of judgments on her. To defile — For this does more defile them, and provoke God to wrath against them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thy days — The days of thy sorrows, and punishment. Art come — Thou art grown up to the eldest years in sin, beyond which thou art not to go.... [ Continue Reading ]
Much vexed — Afflicted, impoverished, and ruined.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every one — Not one to be found of a more merciful temper. To their power — According to their ability.... [ Continue Reading ]
In thee — In Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou — O Jerusalem. Mine holy things — All mine institutions, temple, sacrifices, feasts.... [ Continue Reading ]
Carry tales — Informers, or persons that for money, give in false witness against the innocent. They eat — Offer sacrifice on the mountains and feast there, in honour of their idols.... [ Continue Reading ]
Discovered — Defiled their fathers bed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Smitten mine hand — In testimony of my abhorrence.... [ Continue Reading ]
Endure — Withstand the evils that are coming, or bear them when come.... [ Continue Reading ]
In thyself — Whereas I was thine inheritance so long as thou wert a holy, obedient people; now be an inheritance to thyself, if thou canst.... [ Continue Reading ]
Dross — Utterly degenerate, and base metal. The furnace — The afflictions I have laid upon them have not bettered them. The dross — While they loved mercy, did justly, walked humbly with their God, they were as silver; now they are but dross.... [ Continue Reading ]
Gather you — From all parts. I will, by a secret over — ruling providence, bring you into Jerusalem, as into a furnace, where you may be consumed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Her — The land of Israel. Not cleansed — Though God's judgments have been as violent floods; and as hottest fires. Nor rained upon — Yet neither thy filth hath been carried away, nor thy dross melted out of thee. Therefore thou shalt be deprived of the rain, that should cool thy thirsty land.... [ Continue Reading ]
A conspiracy — A contrivance, to speak all alike, smooth words, and give out promises of peace and safety. Thereof — Of the land. The treasure — As a reward of their lies. Made her — By persuading Zedekiah to hold out the war, which filled Jerusalem with dead husbands, and forlorn widows.... [ Continue Reading ]
My holy things — Sacrifices, and oblations. Put no difference — Neither have they in their practice, differenced holy and profane, nor in their teaching acquainted the people with the difference, nor in the exercise of their authority, separated the profane from the holy, either persons, or things.... [ Continue Reading ]
Destroy souls — Ruin families; cutting off the fathers, and impoverishing the widow, and fatherless.... [ Continue Reading ]
Daubed them — Flattered them, in their ways of sin. Untempered mortar — With promises that like ill — tempered mortar, will deceive them, though all seems at present smooth and safe.... [ Continue Reading ]
I sought — God speaks after the manner of men. A man — Any one, among princes, prophets, priests, or people, to repair the breach. And stand — Interpose between a sinful people, and their offended God, and intreat for mercy. But — All were corrupted.... [ Continue Reading ]