Ezekiel 36:7

7 So now the LORD God proclaims: I myself swear that the nations round about you will themselves suffer ridicule.

Ezekiel 36:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:7

Therefore thus saith the Lord God
This being the case, the people of God being in distress, and under shame and disgrace, and the enemy insulting them, and triumphing over them: I have lifted up mine hand;
solemnly swore; lifting up of the hand being a rite used by men when they swore, ( Genesis 14:22 ) : surely the Heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame;
the punishment of their shame; that which is justly due to them for reproaching and putting to shame the people of God: or they shall be a laughing stock to others, and be reproached and derided themselves, and so be paid in their own coin; a just retaliation this for their treatment of the Jews.

Ezekiel 36:7 In-Context

5 So now, says the LORD God, I will speak in my fiery passion against the surviving nations and against Edom, all those who gleefully and spitefully took my land for themselves as a possession only for plunder.

6 Prophesy concerning Israel's fertile land, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, The LORD God proclaims: Because you endured the ridicule of the nations, my passion and fury lead me to speak.

7 So now the LORD God proclaims: I myself swear that the nations round about you will themselves suffer ridicule.

8 But you, mountains of Israel, will extend your branches and bear your fruit for my people Israel, because they will come home very soon.

9 Look, I'm here for you, and I will turn toward you, and you will be farmed and sown.