Hesekiel 5:6

6 Aber es hat mein Gesetz verwandelt in gottlose Lehre mehr denn die Länder, so ringsherum liegen. Denn sie verwerfen mein Gesetz und wollen nicht nach meinen Rechten leben. {~}

Hesekiel 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 5:6

And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
nations
So they changed their glory for that which did not profit; and the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man; and the truth of God into a lie, ( Jeremiah 2:11 ) ( Romans 1:23 Romans 1:25 ) ; or, "for wickedness" ^F17; for judgments and laws that were not good, and which to observe was wickedness. The word rendered "changed" signifies to "rebel against" or to "transgress": and the may be, she, that is, Jerusalem, has "rebelled" against my judgments, and "transgressed" ^F18 them in a wicked manner, even to a greater degree than the nations of the world. The Targum and Jarchi interpret it changed as we do: and my statutes more than the countries that [are] round about her.
"Judgments" and "statutes", are the same laws and ordinances of worship, being just and righteous, and firm and unalterable; unless it should rather be thought that "judgments" belong to the moral law, being given forth by the Lord as a judge, and founded upon judgment and righteousness; and "statutes" to the ceremonial law, being of positive institution and appointment, and to last so long as it was the pleasure of the lawgiver: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes;
they refused to comply with them, and to yield an obedience to them, and that with loathing, disdain, and contempt, as the word ^F19 signifies, they have not walked in them;
they did not make them the role of their walk and conversation; they showed no regard to them; they went out of the way of them, into crooked paths, with the workers of iniquity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (hevrl) "ut improbe ageret", Cocceius.
F18 (rmt) "transgressa est, [vel] rebellis fuit", Calvin; "refractaria
F19 "Verbum" (oam) "significat spernere, reprobare, rejicere, idque ex contemptu et fastidio", Polanus.

Hesekiel 5:6 In-Context

4 Und nimm wiederum etliches davon und wirf's in ein Feuer und verbrenne es mit Feuer; von dem soll ein Feuer auskommen über das ganze Haus Israel.

5 So spricht der HERR HERR: Das ist Jerusalem, das ich mitten unter die Heiden gesetzt habe und ringsherum Länder.

6 Aber es hat mein Gesetz verwandelt in gottlose Lehre mehr denn die Länder, so ringsherum liegen. Denn sie verwerfen mein Gesetz und wollen nicht nach meinen Rechten leben. {~}

7 Darum spricht der HERR also: Weil ihr's mehr macht denn die Heiden, so um euch her sind, und nach meinen Geboten nicht lebt und nach meinen Rechten nicht tut, sondern nach der Heiden Weise tut, die um euch her sind,

8 so spricht der HERR HERR also: Siehe, ich will auch an dich und will Recht über dich gehen lassen, daß die Heiden zusehen sollen;