Ezekiel 7

Ezekiel 7:3

ALL thine] that is to say, the punishment due for them.

Ezekiel 7:4

Shall be] that is to say, they having never been wiped out, nor cancelled by my pardon, nor by your repentance, I will make you endure open punishment for them.

Ezekiel 7:7

Sounding againe] the Italian, an Eccho; namely, a vaine sound, to no effect.

Ezekiel 7:10

The rod] A proverbiall kind of speech, to signifie, that the peoples sinnes were passed from violence against man, 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, as it were, the filling up of the measure heap full, which draweth Gods judgements upon us.

Ezekiel 7:11

None of them] they must all perish, I will suffer them no longer.

Ezekiel 7:13

For the seller] by reason of the desolation of the land, all manner of right and title to the property of lands shall be lost, by the buyers and sellers and none shall come againe to the possession of his land in the yeare of Jubile, though he live to it, Leviticus 25:13; Leviticus 25:23. any] none shall be able by art or cunning, to avoid my sentences of death.

Ezekiel 7:14

They have] 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

Diblah] which place is not found mentioned, except it be that Diblathaim, Ier. 48. 22. which was a place in Moab neare the great desert.

Ezekiel 7:17

All hands] All manner of strength to defend themselves, and to subsist, shall faile.

Ezekiel 7:18

Baldnesse] 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 Isa. 3. 24. and 15. 2, 3 Ier. 48. 37. Ezekiel 27:31. Micah 1:16. Amos 8:10.

Ezekiel 7:19

Shall cast] taking care for nothing, but to save their owne 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 13:12; Isaiah 13:17.

Ezekiel 7:20

He] namely the people of Judah Set it] that is to say, that gold and silver, and those jewels and ornaments shall be cast away from them, and forsaken by them, as things of no value.

Ezekiel 7:21

Pollute it] with the bloud of slaine persons.

Ezekiel 7:22

My secret place] namely, my sanctuary, into which it was not lawfull for any one to come but only the High-priest, and where God by the signes of his presence did dwell in darknesse, that place being filled with a mist, 1 King. 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 Majesty inaccessible Into t] namely, Jerusalem, Defile it] that is to say, shall sacke and destroy it, as a prophane and polluted place, without any respect to it, as to a City consecrated to God.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chaine] the Italian, an enclosure] that is to say, represent unto my people by signes and figures the siege of Jerusalem; as Ezekiel 4:1. Others make a chaine for a signe of the peoples captivity. See Ier. 27. 2. Bloudy crimes] namely of unjust sentences, by which the innocent were condemned to death. Or judgements upon capitall oences.

Ezekiel 7:26

Seeke] in the midst of these great troubles, they shall require some counsell, direction or comfort from the Prophets: But not only prophecie, which is an extraordinary gift, shall faile them, but also the ordinary preaching of Gods word, and all good advice and provision of humane wisedome.

Ezekiel 7:27

The hands] The people shall be so dismayed, that they will be able to doe nothing in their owne defence.