Ezequiel 36:18

18 Por tanto, derramé mi furor sobre ellos por la sangre que habían derramado sobre la tierra y por haberla contaminado con sus ídolos.

Ezequiel 36:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:18

Wherefore I poured my fury on them
Like a mighty flood that carries all before it, in just retaliation for the blood they had shed upon the land;
the innocent blood, as the Targum; the blood of righteous men, that opposed and reproved them for their sinful ways; the blood of the prophets, that were sent to warn them of them; and especially the blood of the Son of God; for this prophecy reaches further than to the times of the Babylonish captivity: and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it;
or, "for their dung" ^F13; their dunghill gods; not only for their idols, and their idolatry, before the Babylonish captivity, which they after that were free from; but for the traditions of their elders, they set up against and above the word of God; and their own legal righteousness, their idols, the works of their hands, which wore as dung; and through their attachment to which they rejected Christ and his righteousness; and which brought wrath upon them, and them into their present captivity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Mhylwlgb) "stercoreis diis suis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "stercoribus suis", Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 36:18 In-Context

16 Entonces vino a mí la palabra del SEÑOR, diciendo:

17 Hijo de hombre, cuando la casa de Israel habitaba en su propia tierra, ellos mismos la contaminaron con su conducta y con sus obras; como la impureza de una mujer en su menstruación fue su conducta delante de mí.

18 Por tanto, derramé mi furor sobre ellos por la sangre que habían derramado sobre la tierra y por haberla contaminado con sus ídolos.

19 Los esparcí entre las naciones y fueron dispersados por las tierras. Conforme a sus caminos y a sus obras los juzgué.

20 Cuando llegaron a las naciones adonde fueron, profanaron mi santo nombre, porque de ellos se decía: Estos son el pueblo del SEÑOR, y han salido de su tierra.