5 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: this 'is' Jerusalem, In the midst of the nations I have set her, And round about her 'are' the lands. 6 And she changeth My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, And My statutes more than the lands that 'are' round about her, For against My judgments they have kicked, And My statutes—they have not walked in them. 7 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your multiplying above the nations that 'are' around you, In My statutes ye have not walked, And My judgments ye have not done, According to the judgments of the nations That 'are' round about you ye have not done. 8 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I 'am' against thee, even I, And I have done in thy midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations. 9 And I have done in thee that which I have not done, And that which I do not its like again, Because of all thine abominations. 10 Therefore fathers do eat sons in thy midst, And sons eat their fathers, And I have done in thee judgments, And have scattered all thy remnant to every wind. 11 Therefore, I live—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah: Because My sanctuary thou hast defiled, With all thy detestable things, And with all thine abominations, Mine eye pitieth not, and I also spare not. Do not even I also diminish? 12 Thy third part—by pestilence they die, And by famine are consumed in thy midst, And the third part, by sword they fall round about thee, And the third part, to every wind I scatter, And a sword I draw out after them. 13 And completed hath been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them. 14 And I give thee for a waste, And for a reproach among nations that 'are' round about thee, Before the eyes of every passer by. 15 And it hath been a reproach and a reviling, An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that 'are' round about thee, In My doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I, Jehovah, have spoken. 16 In My sending the evil arrows of famine among them, That have been for destruction, That I send to destroy you, And famine I am adding upon you, And I have broken to you the staff of bread. 17 And I have sent on you famine and evil beasts, And they have bereaved thee, And pestilence and blood pass over on thee, And a sword I do bring in against thee, I, Jehovah, have spoken!'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 5:5-17
Commentary on Ezekiel 5:5-17
(Read Ezekiel 5:5-17)
The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, will perish for ever unpitied; there is a day coming when the Lord will not spare. Let not persons or churches, who change the Lord's statutes, expect to escape the doom of Jerusalem. Let us endeavour to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. Sooner or later God's word will prove itself true.