Ezequiel 36:18

18 Contaminaron la tierra con homicidios y con la adoración de ídolos,
por eso derramé mi furia sobre ellos.

Ezequiel 36:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:18

Wherefore I poured my fury on them
Like a mighty flood that carries all before it, in just retaliation for the blood they had shed upon the land;
the innocent blood, as the Targum; the blood of righteous men, that opposed and reproved them for their sinful ways; the blood of the prophets, that were sent to warn them of them; and especially the blood of the Son of God; for this prophecy reaches further than to the times of the Babylonish captivity: and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it;
or, "for their dung" ^F13; their dunghill gods; not only for their idols, and their idolatry, before the Babylonish captivity, which they after that were free from; but for the traditions of their elders, they set up against and above the word of God; and their own legal righteousness, their idols, the works of their hands, which wore as dung; and through their attachment to which they rejected Christ and his righteousness; and which brought wrath upon them, and them into their present captivity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Mhylwlgb) "stercoreis diis suis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "stercoribus suis", Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 36:18 In-Context

16 Luego recibí este otro mensaje del Señor
:

17 «Hijo de hombre, cuando los israelitas vivían en su propia tierra, la contaminaron con su mala manera de vivir. Para mí, su conducta fue tan impura como el paño menstrual de una mujer.

18 Contaminaron la tierra con homicidios y con la adoración de ídolos,
por eso derramé mi furia sobre ellos.

19 Los esparcí por varios países a fin de castigarlos por su mala manera de vivir;

20 pero esparcidos entre las naciones, deshonraron mi santo nombre. Pues las naciones decían: “¡Estos son el pueblo del Señor
, pero él no pudo protegerlos en su propia tierra!”.