Ezekiel 36:3

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people: BECAUSE - literally, Because, even because. THEY HAVE MADE YOU DESOLATE, [ shamowt (H8074)]. Cocceius takes this as feminine plural of a noun [shamaah], 'Because there are desolations, and they have swallowed you up' - i:e., because the surrounding pagan have taken advantage of your desolation by the Chaldees to seize on your possessions. Buxtorf, as the English version, makes it an infinitive, from [ shaamam (H8074)] to desolate. Fairbairn needlessly makes it from [na...

1-15 Those who put contempt and reproach on God's people, will have them turned on themselves. God promises favour to his Israel. We have no reason to complain, if the more unkind men are, the more kind God is. They shall come again to their own border. It was a type of the heavenly Canaan, of which all God's children are heirs, and into which they all shall be brought together. And when God returns in mercy to a people who return to him in duty, all their grievances will be set right. The full completion of this prophecy must be in some future event....

THE RESIDUE OF THE PAGAN - Those of the surrounding nations which had survived Jerusalem’s fall, and may have profited by it....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 36:1 The present chapter is entirely devoted to the consolation of Israel, though its parts are derived from two separate "words" of Jehovah. Ezekiel 36:1 belong to the "word" which opened with the first verse of the preceding chapter; Ezekiel 36:16 begins another "word," which only closes at Ezekiel 37:14. The subject of the first part is the comfort offered to Israel in the destruction threatened against the heathen, and in the blessings promised to her land and people. Ezekiel

THEREFORE PROPHESY AND SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD,.... Who heard all the enemy said, and knew all their designs and purposes, their schemes and devices: BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE YOU DESOLATE; ravaged their country, destroyed their cities, burnt their temple, and carried them captive, and left the land without men or cattle: AND SWALLOWED YOU UP ON EVERY SIDE; all their neighbours, being their enemies, were like ravenous beasts of prey, gaping upon them with their mouths; and, observing the low condition into which they were brought by the king of Babylon, helped forward the destruction; and everyone shared in the spoil and plunder nearest to them they could conveniently come at: THAT YE MIGHT BE A POSSESSION TO THE RESIDUE OF THE HEATHEN; either to those that were left in the land by the king of Babylon, or to the rest of the Heathen nations round about them: YE ARE TAKEN UP IN THE L...

Ezekiel 36:1. With this chapter the great prophetic utterances of Ezekiel begin concerning the future restoration and blessing of Israel. From here on to the end of the book, all is still unfulfilled, nor can it be fulfilled until the Lord Jesus Christ comes again and is enthroned as King. The first seven verses (Ezekiel 36:1)announce once more the future judgment of Israel's enemies. Then comes the promised return to the land Ezekiel 36:8. The mountains of Israel, barren so long, shall be inhabited again. Israel's past sins and chastisement are reviewed in Ezekiel 36:16, and then comes that great message of restoration and blessing th

THE RESTORATION AND RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S LAND. This chapter is brilliant with hope and promise. First comes a fine apostrophe (Ezekiel 36:1), tremulous with emotion (_cf._ Ezekiel 36:4), to the mountain land of Israel (contrast ch. 6). Mocked and desolated as it had been by the enemy, and especially by Edom, Yahweh, whose own honour has been involved in these insults to His land, solemnly vows that the enemy shall be overtaken by the doom which they had brought upon Israel (Ezekiel 36:1). His favour, however, would restore Israel's mountain land, which, in the near future (Ezekiel 36:8) would be more fertile, prosperous, and populous

BECAUSE. Because, even because. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_. App-6. SWALLOWED YOU UP. Like. beast of prey. Compare Job c. e. Psalms 56:1; Psalms 56:2; Psalms 57:3.Ecclesiastes 10:12. ARE. have been. INFAMY. evil report....

_Because_ lit. _because, because_, Ezekiel 13:10. The passage throughout betrays passionate feeling on the part of the prophet. His patriotism is aglow as the loved mountains of his native land rise before his mind; cf. the pathetic words in reference to the exiled king, Ezekiel 19:9. Hence the excitation and solemnity displayed in introducing the prophecy, which itself is expressed (Ezekiel 36:7 _seq_.) only after four or five commands to utter it (Ezekiel 36:3). For made desolate _gaped for_might be read, Isaiah 42:14. and ye are t

BECAUSE THEY HAVE MADE YOU DESOLATE, &C.— _Because the residue of the nations, which surround you, gape ever you, since you were laid waste, that you may become their possession; and ye are,_ &c. Houbigant. The meaning of the last phrase in the verse is, "Your calamities have made you become a proverb and a reproach among the heathen round about you, according to the threatenings of the prophets denounced against you." See Jeremiah 24:9....