Ezequiel 36:20

20 E, por onde andaram entre as nações, eles profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia a respeito deles: ‘Esse é o povo do SENHOR, mas assim mesmo teve que sair da terra que o SENHOR lhe deu’.

Ezequiel 36:20 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:20

And when they entered unto the Heathen, whither they went,
&c.] When the Jews went into the Heathen countries, whither they were carried captive, either by the Chaldeans, or by the Romans: they profaned my holy name;
by their irreligion and immorality; by their violation of both tables of the law; by their wicked lives and conversations, whereby they gave the enemy an occasion to reproach them, their religion, and their God, ( Romans 2:24 ) : when they said to them, these are the people of the Lord, and are gone
forth out of his land;
these are the men that boast they are the people of the Lord, whom he has chosen above all people, and see what a wicked people they are; for their sins they are driven out of the land, and become our captives: or though they were the Lord's people, as they pretend, and were under his care and protection; yet he was not able to keep them in their own land, and deliver them out of our hands, but they are carried captive by us; and thus the name of God, his being and perfections, were blasphemed, and his word, worship, and worshippers, were ridiculed by them. The Targum is,

``if these are the people of the Lord, how is it that they are gone out of the land of the house of his majesty?''

Ezequiel 36:20 In-Context

18 Por essa razão derramei sobre eles a minha ira, porque eles derramaram sangue na terra e porque se contaminaram com seus ídolos.

19 Eu os dispersei entre as nações, e eles foram espalhados entre os povos; eu os julguei de acordo com a conduta e as ações deles.

20 E, por onde andaram entre as nações, eles profanaram o meu santo nome, pois se dizia a respeito deles: ‘Esse é o povo do SENHOR, mas assim mesmo teve que sair da terra que o SENHOR lhe deu’.

21 Tive consideração pelo meu santo nome, o qual a nação de Israel profanou entre as nações para onde tinha ido.

22 “Por isso, diga à nação de Israel: Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR: Não é por sua causa, ó nação de Israel, que farei essas coisas, mas por causa do meu santo nome, que vocês profanaram entre as nações para onde foram.