Ezekiel 22:15

15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

Ezekiel 22:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 22:15

And I will scatter thee among the Heathen, and disperse thee
in the countries
Not only cause them to be carried captive to some one place, as Babylon; but to be scattered and dispersed throughout the various provinces of it, and in other nations, as chaff is by the winds; signifying hereby the power by which it would be done; their weakness, who would not be able to hinder it; and the uncomfortable condition they would be in: and will consume thy filthiness out of thee;
by destroying some filthy persons, and reforming others; by bringing them by means of those afflictions to a sense of their sins, and to forsake them; and so would be refined as silver from its dross in a furnace: it may have a particular reference to their idolatry, that filthy sin, which they were cured of, and purged from, by their captivity, and to which they returned no more.

Ezekiel 22:15 In-Context

13 Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.

14 Will your courage endure or your hands be strong in the day I deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will act.

15 I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.

16 And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”

17 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,