Ezekiel 16:42

42 "So I 1will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry 2no more.

Ezekiel 16:42 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:42

So will I make my fury towards thee to rest
When the Jews should cease from their idolatries, and no more worship the gods of the nations, then the fury of the Lord, and the effects of it, should cease: God no longer contends with a people than while they are sinning; when a reformation is brought about, by afflictions or judgments, his end is answered, and he puts a stop to the spread of his wrath and fury; or if is made to rest, because there is nothing left for it to work upon, a total consumption of people and substance being made by it: or it may be rendered, "I will make my fury to rest upon thee" F20; and the sense be, that his wrath should abide upon them, and not remove until an utter end was made of them; though the first sense seems best to agree with what goes before, and follows after: and my jealousy shall depart from thee;
as it does from a man when he has utterly rejected his wife because of whoredom, and is divorced from her; and his burning jealousy has satisfied itself, and there is no other way to operate and show itself in; or when a woman returns to her husband and gives him satisfaction, keeps close unto him, and lives chastely with him, having relinquished her former lewd ways and practices: and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry:
the effects of his anger cease, his judgments averted, and he at peace with them, and they with him; for he retains not his anger for ever: though some understand this of his being quiet and at ease in the destruction of the Jews; there being no more to wreak his vengeance upon.


FOOTNOTES:

F20 (Kb ytmx ytxnhw) "et requiescere faciam iram meam in te", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatsblus, Cocceius.

Ezekiel 16:42 In-Context

40 "They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
41 "They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.
42 "So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.
43 "Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.
44 "Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.'

Cross References 2

  • 1. 2 Samuel 24:25; Ezekiel 5:13; Ezekiel 21:17; Zechariah 6:8
  • 2. Isaiah 40:1, 2; Isaiah 54:9, 10; Ezekiel 39:29
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