Ezekiel 22:15

15 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.

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 And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you [have] made and at your blood that was in the midst of you.

14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days [in] which I [am] dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!

15 I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you.

16 And I will be profaned by you before [the] eyes of [the] nations, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh." '"

17 And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},