Ezequiel 20:35

35 e vos levarei ao deserto dos povos; e ali face a face entrarei em juízo convosco;

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 Vivo eu, diz o Senhor Deus, certamente com mão forte, e com braço estendido, e com indignação derramada, hei de reinar sobre vós.

34 E vos tirarei dentre os povos, e vos congregarei dos países nos quais fostes espalhados, com mão forte, e com braço estendido, e com indignação derramada;

35 e vos levarei ao deserto dos povos; e ali face a face entrarei em juízo convosco;

36 como entrei em juízo com vossos pais, no deserto da terra do Egito, assim entrarei em juízo convosco, diz o Senhor Deus.

37 Também vos farei passar debaixo da vara, e vos farei entrar no vínculo do pacto;