Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 16:42
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
42. make my fury to rest ] i.e. satisfy and appease it. Cf. ch. Eze 5:13.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 42. I will be quiet and will be no more angry.] I will completely abandon thee; have nothing more to do with thee; think no more of thee. When God in judgment ceases to reprehend, this is the severest judgment.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
It may admit a doubt, whether this be spoken in way of promise and kindness, or of menace and wrath. This latter seems intended, as if God said, The jealousy whereto you have provoked me will never cease till these judgments have utterly destroyed you, and cut you off, as the anger of an abused husband ceaseth in the divorce and public punishment of the adulteress.
My jealousy shall depart from thee; I will no more concern myself for thee, nor be troubled at thy carriage, whatever it be, since thou art no more mine.
Will be no more angry, with the anger which is in the breast of a husband troubled for and angry at the miscarriages of a wife he loved.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
42. my fury . . . restwhen Myjustice has exacted the full penalty commensurate with thy awfulguilt (see on Eze 5:13). It isnot a mitigation of the penalty that is here foretold, but such anutter destruction of all the guilty that there shall be noneed of further punishment [CALVIN].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
So will I make my fury towards thee to rest,…. When the Jews should cease from their idolatries, and no more worship the gods of the nations, then the fury of the Lord, and the effects of it, should cease: God no longer contends with a people than while they are sinning; when a reformation is brought about, by afflictions or judgments, his end is answered, and he puts a stop to the spread of his wrath and fury; or if is made to rest, because there is nothing left for it to work upon, a total consumption of people and substance being made by it: or it may be rendered, “I will make my fury to rest upon thee” t; and the sense be, that his wrath should abide upon them, and not remove until an utter end was made of them; though the first sense seems best to agree with what goes before, and follows after:
and my jealousy shall depart from thee; as it does from a man when he has utterly rejected his wife because of whoredom, and is divorced from her; and his burning jealousy has satisfied itself, and there is no other way to operate and show itself in; or when a woman returns to her husband and gives him satisfaction, keeps close unto him, and lives chastely with him, having relinquished her former lewd ways and practices:
and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry: the effects of his anger cease, his judgments averted, and he at peace with them, and they with him; for he retains not his anger for ever: though some understand this of his being quiet and at ease in the destruction of the Jews; there being no more to wreak his vengeance upon.
t “et requiescere faciam iram meam in te”, Pagninus, Montanus, Vatsblus, Cocceius.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Although God seems here to promise some mitigation of his wrath, there is no doubt that he expresses what we formerly saw, namely, that such should be the destruction of the nation that there would be no need to return again to punish them. When, therefore, he says, I will make my indignation rest upon thee, it means that he would satiate himself with vengeance for all their crimes: so that the consumption of the people is here called the rest of God’s indignation, as if he had said, When I have utterly reduced you to nothing, then my indignation against thee shall rest. In the same way he afterwards adds, and my indignation shall depart from thee. But I cannot finish today.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(42) My fury . . . to rest.Not in pity but in satiety, as having accomplished the utter desolation of Israel.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
42. Make my fury toward thee to rest Literally, satisfy my fury upon thee. (See Eze 16:13.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“So will I cause my fury on you to cease, and my jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet, and angry no more.”
Yet in all this God’s purpose is finally merciful. He wants to rid His people of idolatry so that they will again respond in full to the covenant. Once their sin has been dealt with His righteous anger against sin will no longer be necessary. Once their idolatry has ceased He will no longer need to be concerned about their not looking to Him. He will no longer need to be a ‘jealous God’. The terms fury and jealousy are anthropomorphic and not to be taken too literally. His ‘fury’ is His set attitude against sin as the moral Judge of the universe, His ‘jealousy’ is His righteous concern against their behaving in a way which is detrimental to themselves and to the world. As with any good and righteous husband, God’s heart is set against anything that wrecks His wife’s life, and uniquely His wife will be able to benefit from His punishment, for some of His people remain.
So will He be ‘quiet’. His work will have been accomplished, justice will have been satisfied, and He will be able to restore His people to their old relationship.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 16:42. So will I make my fury toward thee to rest Though it be more grateful to God’s excellent nature to awaken men with his bounty than with his chastisement, yet he can punish with as little noise as he can relieve: it is but withdrawing himself, giving men up to their own hearts’ lust, letting them walk in their own counsels, and have all they desire to have; and they are insensibly as miserable as their most outrageous enemies desire to see them. The oldest and most obstinate sinners have the same desires, the same childish desires with little children: they wish to be let alone; and God gratifies them, and lets them alone: and woe unto them who are so left!There is not a more terrible denunciation of judgment and vengeance in all the most heightened expressions of the prophets, than in that unconcerned determination and denunciation which the Lord here makes by Ezekiel, after all other experiments and expedients had failed. I will cause my fury towards thee to rest, &c. All his threats, all the strokes of his displeasure, all the mortification which the people had undergone by it, were not so intolerable as was this cessation of his fury, this departure of his jealousy, and this quietness and laying aside of his anger. While he had any kindness left for her, any good purposes towards her, he was jealous for Sion, with great jealousy and great fury; the kindness was for ever expired, when the fury and the jealousy were extinguished. We are to pray that he will rather deliver us up to our worst enemies, than give us up to ourselves, to our own heart’s desire.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Ver. 42. So I will make my fury toward thee to rest. ] Sept., I will dismiss mine anger upon thee. Like as when Haman was hanged, Ahasuerus’s wrath was pacified; Est 7:10 and as when Jonah was cast overboard, the sea was calmed.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
will I: Eze 5:13, Eze 21:17, 2Sa 21:14, Isa 1:24, Zec 6:8
and will: Eze 39:29, Isa 40:1, Isa 40:2, Isa 54:9, Isa 54:10
Reciprocal: Eze 8:18 – will I also Eze 24:13 – till I Hos 10:10 – in my
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 16:42. Jealousy shall depart was looking forward to the time when Judah would no longer be a worshiper of idols, since such worship was the cause of the Lord’s jealousy according to Exo 20:5.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
16:42 So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my {t} jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
(t) I will utterly destroy you and so my jealousy will cease.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
This punishment would satisfy the Lord’s anger against Jerusalem. She had enraged Him by not remembering His goodness to her and by her lewd conduct. Now He would punish her for that conduct so she would not practice it on top of all her other sins.