Ezechiele 20:35

35 E vi condurrò nel deserto de’ popoli, e quivi verrò a giudicio con voi, a faccia a faccia.

Ezechiele 20:35 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:35

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people
Into Babylon, and into captivity there, which they thought to avoid by fleeing to other countries. Some think that those inhospitable nations are meant, Syro-media, Caspia, Hyrcania, Iberia, and others, into which many of the Jews were brought, who sought to live elsewhere than at Babylon; and others are of opinion that this respects the time of their return from Babylon to their own land, between which lay a wilderness, here referred to; but perhaps the prophecy respects the present state of the Jews, in which they have continued ever since their destruction by the Romans; through whom they have been brought among the several nations of the world, particularly the Roman empire, compared to a wilderness; and represented as a populous one, as it is, and in which the beast, or antichrist, now is; see ( Revelation 17:3 ) and there will I plead with you face to face; judge, condemn, and take vengeance, or inflict punishment on them in the most public manner, as he now does. The Targum is, "and I will take vengeance on you face to face".

Ezechiele 20:35 In-Context

33 Come io vivo, dice il Signore Iddio, io regnerò sopra voi con man forte, e con braccio steso, e con ira sparsa;

34 e vi trarrò fuori d’infra i popoli, e vi raccoglierò da’ paesi, dove sarete stati dispersi, con man forte, e con braccio steso, e con ira sparsa.

35 E vi condurrò nel deserto de’ popoli, e quivi verrò a giudicio con voi, a faccia a faccia.

36 Siccome io venni a giudicio co’ padri vostri nel deserto del paese di Egitto, così verrò a giudicio con voi, dice il Signore Iddio;

37 e vi farò passar sotto la verga, e vi metterò ne’ legami del patto;