Yǐsījiēshū 13:5

5 Měi yǒu shàng qù dū dāng pò kǒu ，yě měi yǒu wèi yǐ sè liè jiā chóng xiū qiáng yuǎn ，shì tā mēn dāng yē hé huá de rì zǐ zài zhēn shàng zhān lì de zhǔ 。

Yǐsījiēshū 13:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 13:5

Ye have not gone up into the gaps
Or "breaches" ^F4; so the Targum. The allusion is to breaches made in the walls of a city when besieged; at which time those within gather together in great numbers to meet the enemy, and prevent his entrance by the breaches. These words are either spoken to the princes of Israel, the civil magistrates; or to the prophets, who seeing the sins of the people, like a mighty torrent, opening a breach for the wrath and judgments of God to pour in upon them, should have called them, and importunately pressed them to repentance and reformation, and to have put up their prayers, and made intercession to God for them; neither of which they did, and therefore are here blamed; see ( Ezekiel 22:30 ) ( Psalms 107:23 ) ; neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel;
or a "fence", a fortification. The Vulgate Latin renders it, "a wall"; a new wall, which is generally made by the besieged within, when a breach is made upon them: it signifies the same as before. Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it of repentance and good works; and so the Targum, which paraphrases the words thus,

``neither have ye done for yourselves good works, to deprecate for the house of Israel, to stand to pray for them:''

to stand in the battle in the day of the Lord:
when he came forth in battle array against them, with great wrath and indignation, in the way of his righteous judgments. The Targum is,

``when warriors come up against them in the day of the wrath of the Lord;''

when the Chaldeans came against them by the will of God, he being angry with them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (twurpb) "in fracturas", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version; "rupturas", Calvin, Piscator, Starckius.

Yǐsījiēshū 13:5 In-Context

3 Zhǔ yē hé huá rú cǐ shuō ，yù wǎn de xiān zhī yǒu huò le ，tā měn suí cóng zì jǐ de xīn yì ，què yī wǔ suó jiān 。

4 Yǐ sè liè a ，nǐ de xiān zhī hǎo xiàng huāng cháng zhōng de hú lǐ ，

5 Měi yǒu shàng qù dū dāng pò kǒu ，yě měi yǒu wèi yǐ sè liè jiā chóng xiū qiáng yuǎn ，shì tā mēn dāng yē hé huá de rì zǐ zài zhēn shàng zhān lì de zhǔ 。

6 Zhe xiè rěn suó jiàn de shì xù jiá ，shì huāng zhá de zhān bó 。tā mén shuō shì yē hé huá shuō de ，qǐ shǐ yē hé huá bìng měi yǒu chāi qián tā mén ，tā mén dǎo shí rěn zhǐ wàng nà huà bì rǎn lì dìng 。

7 Nǐ mén qí bú shì jiàn le xù jiá de yì xiàng ma ？qǐ bú shì shuō le huāng zhá de zhān bó ma ？nǐ mén shuō ，zhe shì yē hé huá shuō de ，qǐ shí wǒ měi yǒu shuō 。