Ezekiel 30

Ezekiel 30:4

Bear - Quietly and patiently to bear what afflictions God will please to lay upon us. And if God tame us when young, by his word or by his rod, it is an unspeakable advantage.

Ezekiel 30:5

Borne it - That he keep his soul in subjection to God, because God hath humbled him by his rod.

Ezekiel 30:6

In the dust - Both this and the former verses let us know the duty of persons under afflictions.

Ezekiel 30:10

Willingly - Not from his own mere motion without a cause given him from the persons afflicted. Hence judgment is called God’s strange work.

Ezekiel 30:13

To subvert - Here are three things mentioned, which God approveth not.

Ezekiel 30:14

Who - Nothing comes to pass in the world, but by the disposal of divine providence. This seems to be spoken in the name of the people of God, arguing themselves into a quiet submission, to their afflictions, from the consideration of the hand of God in them.

Ezekiel 30:15

Evil - Doth not evil or trouble come out of God’s mouth from his direction, and providence, as well as good?

Ezekiel 30:16

Wherefore - The Jews, check themselves in their complaints from the consideration, that nothing had befallen them, but what was the just reward of their sins.

Ezekiel 30:19

Thou - Thou hast plagued us according to the just desert of our sins.

Ezekiel 30:26

Mine eye - The prophet speaks this of himself.