Ezequiel 20:35

35 Trarei vocês para o deserto das nações e ali, face a face, os julgarei.

Ezequiel 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".

Ezequiel 20:35 In-Context

33 Juro pela minha vida, palavra do Soberano, o SENHOR, que dominarei sobre vocês com mão poderosa e braço forte e com ira que já transbordou.

34 Trarei vocês dentre as nações e os ajuntarei dentre as terras para onde vocês foram espalhados, com mão poderosa e braço forte e com ira que já transbordou.

35 Trarei vocês para o deserto das nações e ali, face a face, os julgarei.

36 Assim como julguei os seus antepassados no deserto do Egito, também os julgarei. Palavra do Soberano, o SENHOR.

37 Contarei vocês enquanto estiverem passando debaixo da minha vara e os trarei para o vínculo da aliança.