Ezekiel 14:8

8 Je tournerai ma face contre cet homme-là, afin qu'il serve d'avertissement, et qu'il passe en proverbe; et je le retrancherai du milieu de mon peuple. Et vous saurez que je suis l'Éternel.

Ezekiel 14:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 14:8

And I will set my face against that man
And look him out of countenance, notwithstanding all his daring impudence and presumption in coming to a prophet of the Lord, and inquiring of him by him, when guilty of gross idolatry; which mast needs be the case, when the face of God is set against a man. The Targum renders it, "my fury", or "wrath"; and indeed that is what is meant; when God sets his face against a man, he pours out his wrath, or inflicts punishment on him; see ( Psalms 34:16 ) . Jarchi's note is,

``as a man that says I am at leisure from all business, and I will attend to this;''

laying aside all other business, wholly giving himself up to one thing, on which he is set. Dreadful is a man's case, when the Lord thus sets himself against him! and will make him a sign and a proverb;
a spectacle of horror to look at, because of his misery; and a proverb, to be took up, and spoke of, as Zedekiah and Ahab were, ( Jeremiah 29:22 ) ; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;
by a sudden death, which the Jews call death from heaven, or by the immediate hand of God; and which is answering by himself, as in ( Ezekiel 14:7 ) ; and ye shall know that I [am] the Lord;
that is, those that remain, are not cut off, but are reclaimed by these examples from idolatry, and are brought to repentance, the remnant among them that should be saved; these should know and acknowledge the Lord was omniscient, and knew the hypocrisy of those men above described; and was omnipotent, and could make good his threatenings, and inflict deserved punishment; and that he was holy, just, and true, in all his ways.

Ezekiel 14:8 In-Context

6 C'est pourquoi dis à la maison d'Israël: Ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Revenez, détournez-vous de vos idoles, détournez vos regards de toutes vos abominations.

7 Car quiconque de la maison d'Israël ou des étrangers qui séjournent en Israël, s'éloigne de moi, place ses idoles dans son cœur et attache les regards sur la pierre d'achoppement qui l'a fait tomber dans l'iniquité, s'il vient auprès d'un prophète pour me consulter par son moyen, moi l'Éternel, je lui répondrai moi-même:

8 Je tournerai ma face contre cet homme-là, afin qu'il serve d'avertissement, et qu'il passe en proverbe; et je le retrancherai du milieu de mon peuple. Et vous saurez que je suis l'Éternel.

9 Et si le prophète se laisse entraîner à prononcer quelque parole, c'est moi, l'Éternel, qui aurai entraîné ce prophète-là; j'étendrai ma main contre lui, et je le retrancherai du milieu de mon peuple d'Israël.

10 Et ils porteront la peine de leur iniquité; telle la peine de celui qui consulte, telle sera la peine du prophète,