Ezekiel 7

Ezekiel 7:3

REcompence] Heb. give.

thine abominations] I will punish thee as thou hast deserved for thine Idolatry.

Ezekiel 7:4

And mine eye] Chap. 5. 11. 8. 18.

shall be] That is, they having never been wiped out not cancelled by my pardon, nor by your repentance, I will make you endure open punishment for them.

Ezekiel 7:6

watcheth for thee] Heb. awaketh against thee. Hee sheweth that the judgements of God ever watch to destroy the sinners, which notwithstanding he delayeth till there be no more hope of repentance.

Ezekiel 7:7

The morning is come] The beginning of his punishments is already come.

sounding] Or, echo. Which was a voyce of joy and mirth.

Ezekiel 7:9

thee] Heb. upon thee.

Ezekiel 7:10

the rod hath blossomed] A proverbiall kind of speech, to signifie that the peoples sinnes were gone beyond violence against men, which is the first budding out into habituall and generall impiety, and had proceeded to bring forth blossomes and flowers of pride and bold rebellion against God, which is the filling of the measure heap full, which draweth Gods judgement upon us.

Ezekiel 7:11

none of them shall remain] They must all perish, I will suffer them no longer.

multitude] Or, tumult.

of theirs] Or, their tumultuous persons.

wailing for them] Jeremiah 16:5-6. Chap. 24. 16, 22. Their own affliction shall be so great, that they shall have no regard to lament for others.

Ezekiel 7:12

rejoyce] For the present profit.

seller mourn] For he shall lose nothing.

Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller] By reason of the desolation of the land, all manner of right and title to the propertie of land shall be lost. by the buyers or sellers; and none shall come again to the posession of his land in the yeer of Jubile, though he live to it, Levi. 25. 13, 23.

although they were yet alive] Heb. though their life were yet among the living.

shall any strengthen himself] None shall be able by art or cunning to avoid my sentences of death.

in the iniquity of his life] Or, whose life is in his iniquity. Heb. his iniquity.

Ezekiel 7:14

They have blown the trumpet] Though they make great preparations, their hearts shall faile them at their need, and they shall not be able to doe any thing for to defend themselves.

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword] Deuteronomy 32:25. Lamentations 1:20.

Ezekiel 7:17

All hands shall be feeble] Isaiah 13:7. Jeremiah 6:24. All manner of strength to defend themselves, and to subsist, shall faile.

shall be weak as water] Heb. go into water.

Ezekiel 7:18

and baldnesse upon all their heads] According to the custome of plucking off, or shaving off ones haire, in token of great griefe, though God had forbidden it, Deuteronomy 14:1. See Isaiah 3:24. & 15. 2, 3. Jeremiah 48:37. Ezekiel 27:31. Mich. 1. 16. Amos 8:10.

Ezekiel 7:19

They shall cast, &c.] Taking care for nothing but to save their own persons; or they shall leave their wealth to their enemies, thinking to ransome their lives therewith, but it shall all be but in vain. See Isaiah 13:1. 17.

removed] Heb. for a separation, or uncleannesse.

silver] Proverbs 11:4. Zephaniah 1:18. Sir 5:8.

because it is the stumbling-block] Or, because their iniquity is their stumbling-block.

Ezekiel 7:20

ornament] Meaning the Sanctuary.

set it farre from them] Or, made it unto them an uncleane thing.

Ezekiel 7:21

strangers] That is, of the Babylonians.

pollute it] With the blood of slain persons.

Ezekiel 7:22

secret place] Which signifieth the most holy place, whereinto none might enter but the High Priest, and where God by the signes of his presence did dwell in darknesse, that place being filled with a mist, 1 Kings 8:10. 12. and receiving no light from without; to shew that God in his essence is invisible and incomprehensible, and in his glory and Majestie inaccessible.

robbers] Or, burglers.

enter into it] Namely, Jerusalem.

defile it] That is, shall sack and destroy it, as a profane and polluted place, without any respect to it, as to a City consecrated to God.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain] That is, represent unto my people by signes and figures the siege of Jerusalem, as Chap. 4. 1. Others make a chain for a sign of the peoples captivitie. See Jerem. 27. 2.

bloudy crimes] That is, of sinnes that deserve death.

Ezekiel 7:24

their holy places shall be defiled] Or, they shall inherit their holy places. Which was the Temple, that was divided into three parts, Psalms 68:35.

Ezekiel 7:25

Destruction] Heb. cutting off.

Ezekiel 7:26

Mischief shall come] Psalms 42:7. Jeremiah 4:20.

they seek a vision] In the midst of these great troubles they shall require some counsell, direction, or comfort from the Prophets: But not onely prophesie, which is an extraordinary gift, shall faile them; but also the ordinary preaching of Gods Word and all good advice and provision of humane wisdome.

but the law shall perish] Psalms 74:9. Lamentations 2:9.

Ezekiel 7:27

hands of the people] The people shall be so dismayed that they will be able to do nothing in their own defence.

according to their deserts] Heb. with their judgements.