For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

Because thou hast clapped thine hands ... Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee - "Because thou hast clapped thine hands," exulting over the downfall of Jerusalem, "I (also) will stretch out mine hand upon thee," to cause thy downfall (to which Ezekiel 21:17 also may refer, "I will smite mine hands together").

Hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart - with the whole inward feeling, and with every outward indication. Stamping with the foot means dancing for joy.

Verse 7. And will deliver thee for a spoil - so Hebrew [ baz (H957)] margin, or Qeri', for the text, or Kethibh [ bag (H897)], 'meat' (so Ezekiel 26:5; Ezekiel 34:28).

I will cut thee off from the people ... I will destroy thee. Their goods were to be a "spoil to the foe," their state was to be "cut off," so as to be no more a "people" numbered among "the countries;" and they were, as individuals, for the most part, to be "destroyed."

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