John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 7:27

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, &c.] 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, (<243906>Jeremiah 39:6,7); and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled; 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: I will do unto them after their way; or, “for their way”f110; because of their evil ways and works: and according to their deserts will I judge them; take vengeance on them, as the Targum: or, “in their judgments will I judge them”f111; the same measure they have meted out to others shall be measured out to them, (<400701>Matthew 7:1): and they shall know that I [am] the Lord; the only Lord God, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, true and faithful, holy, just, and good.

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