according to their deserts<\/em> ] lit. judgments<\/em>, i.e. practices and deeds, as ch. Eze 5:7<\/span>, Eze 11:12<\/span> (manners). All that should defend and save the state, from the king to the people of the land, shall be paralysed and helpless. The Lord will judge them according to their doings and they shall know that he is Jehovah.<\/p>\n The king, <\/B>Zedekiah, shall mourn, droop and despair, and every magistrate shall despond. The hands of the people: see Eze 7:17<\/span>. <\/P> Shall be troubled; <\/B>hang down, and melt away. I will no more forbear what they have deserved, I will repay, and they shall know my vengeance. <\/P> <\/p>\n 27. people of the land<\/B>thegeneral multitude, as distinguished from the “king” and the”prince.” The consternation shall pervade all ranks. Theking, whose duty it was to animate others and find a remedy forexisting evils, shall himself be in the utmost anxiety; a mark of thedesperate state of affairs. <\/P> clothed withdesolation<\/B>Clothing is designed to keep off shame; but in thiscase shame shall be the clothing. <\/P> after their way<\/B>becauseof their wicked ways. <\/P> deserts<\/B>literally,”judgments,” that is, what just judgment awards to them;used to imply the exact correspondence of God’s judgment with thejudicial penalties they had incurred: they oppressed the poor anddeprived them of liberty; therefore they shall be oppressed and losetheir own liberty.<\/P><\/p>\n The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation<\/strong>,…. Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being able to save himself and his people; and who falling into the hands of the king of Babylon, his children were slain before him; then his own eyes put out, and he bound in chains, and carried captive to Babylon,<\/p>\n Jer 39:6<\/span>;<\/p>\n and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled<\/strong>; weakened through fear and distress; incapable of business, and unable to help themselves and others; and the more so, when they found their case desperate; which was manifest by the mourning and desolation of their king, in whom their confidence had been placed:<\/p>\n I will do unto them after their way<\/strong>; or, “for their way” p; because of their evil ways and works:<\/p>\n and according to their deserts will I judge them<\/strong>; take vengeance on them, as the Targum: or, “in their judgments will I judge them” q; the same measure they have meted out to others shall be measured out to them, Mt 7:1<\/span>:<\/p>\n and they shall know that I [am] the Lord<\/strong>; the only Lord God, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, true and faithful, holy, just, and good.<\/p>\n p “pro viis ipsorum”, Calvin; “pro via ipsorum”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, q “et in”, sive “pro judiciis eorum judicabo eos”, Calvin, Polanus, Cocceius.<\/p>\n In this verse the Prophet affirms that God’s vengeance should be so common that it should alight equally upon the highest and the lowest. He begins with the king, then he descends to his counselors, then he comprehends the whole people. The king shall lament, he says. But it is his duty to give life to others, and then to devise a remedy for all evils; but when the king has nothing left but grief and sorrow, it is a sign of despair. He metaphorically clothes the elders in a garment of desolation. We know that a garment has two uses; since it fortifies us as a defense against the cold, and then it hides whatever is dishonorable in us. In the opposite sense the Prophet says, shame shall be as a garment to the elders, and then he goes down to the common people. At the same time, he assigns the reason, I, says he, will do to them according to their ways מ is here taken causally, according to their ways, therefore, will I do unto them: and in the same sense he adds, in their judgment will I judge you The word “judgment” is used peculiarly here, and contrary to its ordinary sense. For judgment means the same as righteousness; but it is often transferred to transgressions, as if he had said, they shall feel me a just judge though I avenge their sins. Hence their judgments mean perverse abuses, and comprehend not only superstitions but all kinds of iniquities. By these words God intimates that though he should punish the Jews severely, yet it would not be cruelty, because they deserved such treatment. A confirmation follows in the next vision. The vision is, indeed, separate, but as the Prophet had just asserted in God’s name that the punishment was just under which the Jews would suffer, he confirms this doctrine by the vision which follows, when he was seized by the Spirit of God and transferred to Jerusalem, where he saw the temple filled with various abominations; because there was no corner which they had not defiled and violated with their idols. But let us come to the words. <\/p>\n 27<\/strong>. <\/strong> The royal house and the nobles and the people shall all be judged according to their deserts <\/strong> (literally, judgments<\/em>), and the nature of the punishment shall bring to them the conviction that Jehovah is the punisher.<\/p>\n “I will do to them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them. And they will know that I am Yahweh.”<\/p>\n Here was the final reason for what was to come upon them. They have deserved it because of the path that they have chosen, they have been judged because of their behaviour. They had in effect turned their backs on Him and His covenant, seeking other protectors and following in their evil ways. But now they must recognise Who it is that they have spurned. That they have spurned the living ‘God Who is there’, Yahweh. And His final purpose was that they may once again know Him and serve Him.<\/p>\n Eze 7:27<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>I will do unto them after their way, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> So will I do unto them, as have been their own ways; I will judge them as they judged; <\/em>for in the 23rd verse it is said that the land was full of bloody crimes or judgments; because the blood of the innocent was shed by unjust judgment. Here it is said that those guilty of shedding blood should themselves suffer the punishment of it. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>1st, Fair warning is here given to a careless people; and with great earnestness the prophet speaks, if so be he might awaken them from their lethargy. <\/p>\n 1. Their time of judgment is come, their end at hand, their destruction impending; and this is urged with a great variety of expressions, to shew the certainty, nearness, and terribleness of the calamity. The whole land is doomed to ruin. An evil, <\/em>such as was never heard of before, approached. Their desolations watched for them. The dawn of their calamity was already broke upon them, the day of trouble <\/em>swiftly advanced; not a mere sound, like the distant echo of a man’s voice between the mountains, but a terrible shout of the Chaldean hosts already at the walls of the city. Note; <\/em>(1.) The end of all things is at hand. Are we ready? (2.) Though God’s patience bears long with impenitent sinners, he will surely visit them at the appointed time, and the evil of eternal vengeance will overtake them. <\/p>\n 2. Their destruction is from God’s wrath; their provocations had awakened his fury; <\/em>and now in full vials, he will pour <\/em>it out <\/em>on their devoted heads, and accomplish <\/em>his anger; giving it full scope; no pity or mercy shall mitigate the judgment: and woe to those against whom God thus rises up as an enemy! <\/p>\n 3. God herein acts with strictest justice. The sentence passed on them would be in consequence of an impartial trial, and the righteous recompense of their great abominations. These being found in the midst of them unrepented of, wrath to the uttermost comes upon them. The rod hath blossomed, <\/em>the rod of universal wickedness, <\/em>and they gloried in it; pride hath budded, <\/em>that sin peculiarly hateful to God; and violence is risen up, <\/em>a scene of oppression and injustice appears; and the rod of upright government is turned into a rod of wickedness <\/em>to smite the innocent. Though some understand these expressions as signifying the Chaldean monarch, the rod of God’s anger, swelling with pride, and ready to break in violently upon them as a flood, to punish them for their iniquities. <\/p>\n 4. The ruin coming upon them would be universal. None of them shall remain, <\/em>the whole nation utterly wasted by famine, pestilence, and the sword; princes and people shall fall together unlamented, none surviving to bemoan them; or the few who were left wholly engrossed with care about themselves. The buyer <\/em>should not rejoice, nor the seller mourn, <\/em>because both now would be on a level, alike captives, and removed from their own land, and no year of jubilee cause the possessions to revert to their former owners, although they were yet alive; <\/em>the whole multitude being doomed to a seventy years’ servitude in Babylon. In vain, on the approach of the enemy, they blew the trumpet <\/em>to oppose them; for none goeth to the battle; <\/em>their courage is lost; the wrath <\/em>of God upon them dispirits the bravest, and they fall an easy prey. The sword consumes without, the famine and pestilence within; and neither the city nor country can afford the least protection from these desolating judgments; and they who thought to strengthen themselves in their iniquity, and out-brave the threatened vengeance, now find themselves terribly disappointed. Note; <\/em>(1.) Multitudes are no protection from the wrath of God; sinners shall no more escape because they are many, than because they are mighty. (2.) They who strengthen themselves in wickedness will find their rebel arm impotent and broken when God awakes to judgment. <\/p>\n 5. God’s hand will be visible in their sufferings. And ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth. <\/em>Though the Chaldean army be employed, they shall be convinced that God’s arm is made bare against them, and in their sufferings read his fearful indignation. <\/p>\n 2nd, We have the miserable condition of the few who survive the ruin of their country. 2. Their riches profit not in this day of wrath. They had idolised the shining mammon, and it had been the stumbling-block of their iniquity, <\/em>while they placed that affection and dependence upon their gold which they withdrew from God: but now they are made to know their folly and their sin, compelled to cast away their gold and silver as what would retard their flight, and unable with these to satisfy the cravings of hunger, or purchase a moment’s rest or ease to their souls. Some understand by the gold and silver their idols made of these precious metals, on which they trusted, but found their expectations from them terribly deceived. Note; <\/em>(1.) Money is a dangerous snare; the inordinate love of it has been the ruin of millions. (2.) The greatest wealth can profit us nothing in a day of wrath; it cannot stay the arrests of death, or procure in hell a drop of water to cool a flaming tongue. <\/p>\n 3. Their temple is destroyed, magnificent and adorned as it had been, not merely by the immense profusion of gold and silver and precious stones bestowed upon it, but infinitely more by the residence of the king of glory. They had polluted it; and dared within these sacred walls to erect their detested idols; therefore have I set it far from them; <\/em>removing them as captives into a distant land, and giving up the sanctuary to be trodden under foot by the heathen, to be polluted, profaned, plundered, and burnt, by the Chaldeans first, and afterwards by the Romans. My<\/em> face will I turn also from them; <\/em>deserting the Jews in their distress, or not displeased with the ravages of their wicked enemies, but suffering them uncontrolled to spread havock and desolation on every side. Note; <\/em>They who forsake God may expect that he will forsake them in the day of their calamity. <\/p>\n 3rdly, We have, 2. The sentence pronounced. God threatens to bring <\/em>upon them the worst of the heathen, <\/em>the most savage and barbarous of the human species. The noble, the rich, the proud oppressors, with all their pomp, must bow before them, and the fruits of their injustice be for a prey; their holy places shall be defiled, <\/em>or they that sanctify them, <\/em>their priests and Levites, slain, and lying in their blood. Repeated rumours of the approaching enemy shall terrify them; mischief upon mischief <\/em>shall overwhelm them, and destruction without remedy seize them at last: no peace will be granted them by their exasperated foes. They shall <\/em>in their distress seek a vision of the prophet, <\/em>whom they before despised and rejected; but <\/em>none shall be vouchsafed them; for the law shall perish from the priest, <\/em>he shall not be able to advise or comfort them; and counsel <\/em>shall perish from the ancients, <\/em>given up to infatuation, and become foolish in their imaginations; so that they would be without resource. Their king shall mourn <\/em>a prisoner, clothed with desolation, <\/em>blind and in chains; the hands of the people be troubled, <\/em>weak, and unable to resist; God visiting now upon them their iniquities, and making them know his almighty power and vindictive wrath: for God will make himself known, either in mercy to his saints, or in vengeance to his enemies. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Lord! help both Writer and Reader in the perusal of this solemn Chapter, to make application of the awakening contents to themselves, as it concerns the great day of the Lord. Yet a little while, and as it relates to either, the cry will be, the end is come, now is the end come upon thee. My soul, if the archangel’s trump was now to sound, how art thou prepared? There is indeed laid up for them that fear God, a crown of glory, which the Lord the righteous Judge will give them at that day, and to all them that love his appearing. But the question is, do we love his appearing? Is Jesus in his person, in his work, in his saving grace, in the conversion of sinners, and the comforting of saints, precious. If so we may look forward with holy joy, and hail the approach of this great day of God. Blessed we shall then say be the day, when the end is come to sin and sorrow; to pain, sickness, and care. Oh, ! for grace thus to be looking for, and hasting to the great day of God!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Reader! as we pause over the review, let us bless our gracious Covenant God in Christ, if so be our souls are both prepared for the troubles coming upon the earth. The day is coming, when, as this scripture solemnly assures us: all hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. In the outward calamities of national judgments, the same flame that burns up the city, consumes both the righteous and the wicked in it. All swim in the same ship. All are saved or stranded together. But in respect to inward comforts, grace lifts the soul above all danger. Oh! the blessedness to be found in that day among the redeemed of the Lord, and sealed as the Lord’s hidden ones, by the Holy Spirit unto eternal redemption. Grant, heavenly Father! for the Lord Jesus’s sake, if it be thy heavenly will, both to Writer and Reader, such rich assurances of faith, that when the great day of the Lord shall come, and Jesus himself shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming!<\/p>\n Eze 7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.<\/p>\n Ver. 27. The king shall mourn.<\/strong> ] P ; with a funeral mourning, as the Septuagint express it; with a continued mourning, as the Hebrew importeth. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The prince shall be clothed with desolation.<\/strong> ] Opplebitur tristitia ad stuporem.<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n And the hands.<\/strong> ] Which they had so often lifted up to vanity. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to their deserts.<\/strong> ] See Eze 7:3-4<\/span> ; Eze 7:8-9<\/span> .<\/p>\n desolation. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for rent garments, which were the outward expression of inward grief. <\/p>\n deserts = judgments, Compare Eze 7:23. <\/p>\n they shall know, &c. See note on Eze 6:10, <\/p>\n king: Eze 12:10-22, Eze 17:15-21, Eze 21:25, Jer 52:8-11 <\/p>\n I will: Eze 7:4-8, Eze 18:30, Isa 3:11, Rom 2:5-10 <\/p>\n according to their deserts: Heb. with their judgments, Mat 7:2, Jam 2:13 <\/p>\n and they: Eze 7:4, 1Ki 20:28, Psa 9:16, Joe 3:17 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ki 25:7 – bound him 2Ch 17:1 – and strengthened Psa 62:12 – renderest Isa 9:9 – And all Eze 7:3 – will judge Eze 24:24 – ye shall Eze 33:29 – shall Mat 16:27 – and then<\/p>\n Eze 7:27. The king and priests and prophets, also the people in general will all be rejected by the Lord because they all have conspired against Him. (See Jer 5:31.) All of this was to come upon the people according to their deserts.<\/p>\n The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. 27. king shall mourn ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 7:27”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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1. They are men of sorrows, and vagabonds in the earth. On the solitary mountains, whither they have fled for refuge, like doves of the valley, they mourn every one for his iniquity; <\/em>either for the punishment of it only; or with deep anguish bewailing their sins, which were the cause of their sufferings, weak as water to resist their enemies, and abandoning themselves to despair in horrors of conscience, or terrified by continual fear; covered with shame and confusion because of their transgressions, or of their present wretched state; girt with sackcloth, and baldness on their heads, the expressive signs of deep unutterable anguish. Note; <\/em>(1.) Sin and sorrow are inseparable. (2.) Our afflictions are then gracious, when they lead us to mourn for our iniquity. (3.) The sinner’s confidence will end in despair and fruitless everlasting wailings. <\/p>\n
1. The charge laid against the Jewish people, for which they are brought to God’s bar. Make a chain <\/em>to bind the prisoner, and bring him before the judge; or to lead them into an ignominious captivity; for the land is full of bloody crimes, <\/em>or judgments of blood; <\/em>such crimes as by the law were capital, and called for the blood of the criminal; the city is full of violence, <\/em>a scene of oppression, rapine, and injustice. And when sin in a nation is thus triumphant, her destruction cannot be far distant. <\/p>\nFuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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