George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 5:5
Midst, distinguished above the rest. Many have supposed that the city was in the exact middle of Palestine, or of the world, Psalm lxxiii. 12. (Calmet)
Midst, distinguished above the rest. Many have supposed that the city was in the exact middle of Palestine, or of the world, Psalm lxxiii. 12. (Calmet)
Verse Ezekiel 5:5. _THIS IS JERUSALEM: I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE_ _NATIONS_] I have made this city the most eminent and the most illustrious in the world. Some think that these words refer to...
I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS - It was not unusual for nations to regard the sanctuary, which they most revered, as the center of the earth. In the case of the holy land this was both natu...
Ezekiel 5:1. The sharp knife is the symbol of the king of Babylon. (See Isaiah 7:20 .) He was God's instrument in the execution of His wrath; the people are represented by the hair. The third part of...
EXPLANATION OF THE SYMBOLS. By the four preceding symbolical actions the doom has been made too terribly clear: the reason for it is now given. Jerusalem is the centre of the world, conspicuous alike...
THE LORD GOD. Adonai Jehovah, As in Ezekiel 2:4 THIS IS JERUSALEM. Compare Ezekiel 4:1....
Second Section. Ch. Ezekiel 3:22 to Ezekiel 7:27 The second section of the Book contains these parts: (1) Ch. Ezekiel 3:22-27. A preface in which the prophet is commanded to confine himself to his o...
_This is Jerusalem_ Or, _this Jerusalem_I set it! (Exodus 32:1; Ezekiel 40:45). Jerusalem is placed emphatically at the head of the sentence; the thoughts which the name suggests are then developed in...
Explanation of the four preceding symbols Jerusalem, set in the midst of the nations and favoured of God above them all, has even exceeded them in wickedness (Ezekiel 5:5). Therefore God's judgments...
THIS IS JERUSALEM— "This Jerusalem, against which thou prophesiest, was placed in the midst of the heathen nations. It made a figure among them on account of my temple, and the tokens of my presence....
CHAPTER FIVE PROPHETIC DISCOURSES 5:5-7:27 The three discourses in Chapter s 5-7 are related in that they elaborate on the symbolism of Ezekiel 5:1-4. However, each of these discourses has its own di...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her. THIS IS JERUSALEM - not the mere city, but the people of Israel genera...
THIS] the city depicted on the tile (Ezekiel 4:1). IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS] God gave Jerusalem a great opportunity of displaying His righteousness and truth to the world. Her position, near the hi...
SYMBOLIC ACTIONS REPRESENTING JERUSALEM'S SIEGE AND CAPTIVITY Ezekiel is commanded to perform four remarkable actions setting forth the coming siege withits hardships, and the approaching captivity wi...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 EZEKIEL CUTS AND DIVIDES HIS HAIR – EZEKIEL 5:1-4 V1 ‘
I HAVE SET it IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS. — This was eminently true of Jerusalem, and of Israel as represented by Jerusalem, in all the ages of its history. It constituted one of the great opportunit...
כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהֹוִ֔ה זֹ֚את יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם...
THE END FORETOLD Ezekiel 4:1 - Ezekiel 7:1 WITH the fourth chapter we enter on the exposition of the first great division of Ezekiel's prophecies. The chaps, 4-24, cover a period of about four and a...
In this chapter we have the description of the last of the four signs. The prophet was commanded to take a sword, sharpened as a barber's razor, and therewith to cut off his hair and his beard. The ha...
How often the Lord complains of his people in the Old Testament, that in their sins, they were more stupid and senseless than the idolatrous nations around them. Never was it known, that heathens chan...
Now God shows the reason why he determined to act so severely and harshly towards that holy city which he had selected as the royal residence. For the greater the benefits with which he had adorned th...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 AND 6. In the revelation given to Ezekiel Jerusalem is taken, and its population almost entirely destroyed. The dispersed remnant are pursued by the sword,...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, THIS [IS] JERUSALEM,.... A type or sign of it; it may refer to both the former and latter type. It is the city of Jerusalem that is designed by the city portrayed upon the til...
Thus saith the Lord GOD; This [is] Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries [that are] round about her. Ver. 5. _This is Jerusalem,_] _i.e., _ This head and beard so to be s...
_Thus saith the Lord, This is Jerusalem_ Here the explication of the foregoing type is given, namely, that the hair to be shaved off signified Jerusalem, which was to be destroyed. _I have set it in t...
Thus saith the Lord God, This is Jerusalem, the exalted city of the Lord's habitation; I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS AND COUNTRIES THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT HER, the center of the true worship,...
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SIGN...
5-17 The sentence passed upon Jerusalem is very dreadful, the manner of expression makes it still more so. Who is able to stand in God's sight when he is angry? Those who live and die impenitent, wil...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD: this solemn declaration in God's name the prophet useth by express order, EZEKIEL 3:11. THIS portrayed city's typically Jerusalem, and her inhabitants. I HAVE placed her in a...
Ezekiel 5:5 says H559 (H8804) Lord H136 GOD H3069 Jerusalem H3389 set H7760 (H8804) midst H8432 nations...
JERUSALEM'S GUILT AND FUTURE JUDGMENT IS SPELLED OUT. ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her, and she has rebell...
CONTENTS: Sign of the sharp knife. Famine, pestilence and the sword impending. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: When nations (or persons) are made great, it is with design that they may do good...
Ezekiel 5:1. _Son of man, take thee a sharp knife a barber's razor._ Clip thy hair, and shave thy beard. Then divide and subdivide the hair into twenty four parts, and take eight parts, precisely the...
_This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations._ JERUSALEM IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS Jerusalem was designed to have a good influence upon the nations and countries round about, and w...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 5:5 These verses comment on Ezekiel’s dramatic presentation of prophecy (Ezekiel 4:1)....
_The last methods of punishment symbolised and interpreted_ (chap. Ezekiel 5:1) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The requirements made of Ezekiel still proceed in his house. Already he has been a sign that Jerusalem...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 5:1 TAKE THEE A BARBER'S RAZOR, etc. The series of symbolic acts is carried further. Recollections of Isaiah and Leviticus mingle strangely in the prophet's mind. The former had ma...
CHAPTER 5-6. THE VISION OF THE SHORN HAIR AND ITS FORESHADOWING DESOLATIONS. Ezekiel 5:1. _And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp sword; a barber's razor shalt thou take to thee, and cause it to pa...
Now the fourth thing that he uses as an illustration. Take a sharp knife, sharpen it like a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard (Ezekiel 5:1). Shave your head and...
1 Corinthians 10:4; Deuteronomy 4:6; Ezekiel 16:14; Ezekiel 4:1;...
This is Jerusalem — This portrayed city, is typically Jerusalem. The midst — Jerusalem was set in the midst of the nations, to be as the heart in the body, to invigorate the dead world with a divine l...