John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 7:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, &c.] This verse is the same with (<260704>Ezekiel 7:4); only instead of “I will recompense thy ways upon thee”, here it is, I will recompense thee according to thy ways upon thee and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of thee; which have both the same sense, showing the equity and justice of the divine proceedings: and to the clause, it is added, and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord that smiteth; with the rod of his anger, inflicts punishment for sin. The Syriac version is, “that smiteth them”; the Jews, by suffering them to be carried captive: and so the Targum, “I am the Lord that bringeth upon you a smiting,” or the blow; the sense is, that when it came, they should be sensible that it was the Lord’s doing. (See Gill on “<260704>Ezekiel 7:4”).

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