Ezekiel 8:18

18 "Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and ¹though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

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Ezekiel 8:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore will I also deal in fury
Being provoked by such abominable idolatries, and such horrid insolence, and most contemptuous treatment: mine eye shall not spare: neither will I have pity:
see ( Ezekiel 5:11 ) ( Ezekiel 7:4 Ezekiel 7:9 ) ; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice;
very pressingly and earnestly for help, being in great distress: [yet] will I not hear them;
as they turned their backs on him, he will turn a deaf ear to them, and not regard their cries. The Targum is,

``they shall pray before me, with a great voice, and I will not receive their prayer.''

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 8:18 In-Context

16 Then He brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD , between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

17 He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

18 "Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

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1. Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11; Micah 3:4; Zechariah 7:13

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