Ezekiel 36:7

7 Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear^[a] that the nations all around you will endure their own insults.

Ezekiel 36:7 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:7

Therefore thus saith the Lord God
This being the case, the people of God being in distress, and under shame and disgrace, and the enemy insulting them, and triumphing over them: I have lifted up mine hand;
solemnly swore; lifting up of the hand being a rite used by men when they swore, ( Genesis 14:22 ) : surely the Heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame;
the punishment of their shame; that which is justly due to them for reproaching and putting to shame the people of God: or they shall be a laughing stock to others, and be reproached and derided themselves, and so be paid in their own coin; a just retaliation this for their treatment of the Jews.

Ezekiel 36:7 In-Context

5 "This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.

6 Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal because you have endured the insults of the nations.

7 Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear that the nations all around you will endure their own insults.

8 "You, mountains of Israel, will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel, since their arrival is near.

9 Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you, and you will be tilled and sown.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit lift up My hand