Ezekiel 20:35

35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment upon you.

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Ezekiel 20:35 in Other Translations

KJV

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

ESV

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

NLT

35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, and there I will judge you face to face.

MSG

35 I'll bring you to the desert of nations and haul you into court, where you'll be face to face with judgment.

CSB

35 I will lead you into the wilderness of the peoples and enter into judgment with you there face to face.

Ezekiel 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".

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 20:35 In-Context

33 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will reign over you with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

34 I will bring you from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered—with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm and with outpoured wrath.

35 I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations and there, face to face, I will execute judgment upon you.

36 As I judged your ancestors in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, declares the Sovereign LORD.

37 I will take note of you as you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.