Ezekiel 6:10

10 And they will know that I [am] Yahweh; not {in vain} I spoke to bring to them this evil." '

Ezekiel 6:10 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 6:10

And they shall know that I [am] the Lord
As in ( Ezekiel 6:7 ) ; [and that] I have not said in vain;
either within himself, in his own purposes and decrees; so the Targum,

``I have not in vain decreed in my word;''

or by the mouth of the prophets: that I would do this evil unto them;
in carrying them captive, and dispersing them in other lands; for this is not the evil of sin, but the evil of punishment, or of affliction.

Ezekiel 6:10 In-Context

8 But I will spare [some], {so there will be} for you fugitives from [the] sword among the nations {when you are scattered} in the countries.

9 And your fugitives will remember me among the nations [to] which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart} which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes} which [went] after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves}, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.

10 And they will know that I [am] Yahweh; not {in vain} I spoke to bring to them this evil." '

11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Clap your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas, for all of the detestable things of the evil of the house of Israel, {because of which} they will fall with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague.

12 The one who is far [away] will die by the plague, and the one who is near will fall by the sword, and the one who is being left behind and being spared will die by the famine, and I will complete my rage on them.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "to nothing"