Ezequiel 21:30

30 Torne a tua espada � sua bainha. No lugar em que foste criado, na terra do teu nascimento, eu te julgarei.

Ezequiel 21:30 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:30

Shall I cause it to return into his sheath?
&c.] The drawn and furbished sword of the Chaldeans? no, I will not; it shall never return or be put up until the Ammonites are utterly consumed. Some read these words in the imperative, as the Targum,

``return the sword to its sheath;''
so the Vulgate Latin version, "return to thy sheath"; and so may be considered as a direction to the Ammonites to put up their swords, and not stand in their own defence, since it would be to no purpose; though Jerom, and Grotius after him, take the words to be an apostrophe to the drawn sword of the Chaldeans to sheath itself, having done its work upon the Jews and Ammonites; or to the Chaldeans to return to Babylon, and where they also should be punished; and so interpret all that follows of the destruction of the Babylonians by the Medes and Persians; but the first sense is best: I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of
thy nativity;
not in the place where their father Ammon was born, which was at Zoar; but where they first became a kingdom and state, a body politic; or where the present generation of them were born; they should not be carried out of their own land, but destroyed in it.

Ezequiel 21:30 In-Context

28 E tu, ó filho do homem, profetiza e dize: Assim diz o Senhor Deus acerca dos filhos de Amom, e acerca do opróbrio deles; dize pois: A espada, a espada está desembainhada, polida para a matança, para consumir, para ser como relâmpago -
29 enquanto eles têm visões vãs a teu respeito, e adivinham mentiras - a fim de que seja posta no pescoço dos ímpios, que estão mortalmente feridos, cujo dia é chegado no tempo da punição final.
30 Torne a tua espada � sua bainha. No lugar em que foste criado, na terra do teu nascimento, eu te julgarei.
31 Derramarei sobre ti a minha indignação, assoprarei contra ti o fogo do meu furor; entregar-te-ei nas mãos dos homens brutais, destros para destruírem.
32 Ao fogo servirás de pasto; o teu sangue estará no meio da terra; não serás mais lembrado; porque eu, o Senhor, o disse.
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