Ezekiel 39:24

24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

Ezekiel 39:24 in Other Translations

24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.

24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

24 I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.

24 I treated them as their polluted and sin-sated lives deserved. I turned away from them, refused to look at them.

24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.

Ezekiel 39:24 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 39:24

According to their uncleanness
Not ceremonial, but moral; they were an impure and adulterous generation, as our Lord calls them, ( Matthew 12:39 ) ( 16:4 ) : and according to their transgressions have I done unto them;
or "rebellions", as the Targum renders it; or defections, as the word ^F11 signifies; their rebellions against the King Messiah; their defections from him; their contempt of him, and rejection of his yoke, and non-submission to his ordinances; according to the desert of such crimes, the Lord dealt with them;

``took vengeance on them,''

as the Targum is; in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple: "and hid my face from them"; or caused his Shechaniah to remove from them, as the same paraphrase; (See Gill on Ezekiel 39:23).

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 (Mhyevpk) "secundum defectiones eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius; "pro defectionibus ipsorum", Cocceius.

Ezekiel 39:24 In-Context

22 From that day forward the people of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God.

23 And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.

25 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will now restore the fortunes of Jacob and will have compassion on all the people of Israel, and I will be zealous for my holy name.

26 They will forget their shame and all the unfaithfulness they showed toward me when they lived in safety in their land with no one to make them afraid.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 17:23; Jeremiah 2:17,19; Jeremiah 4:18; S Ezekiel 7:22; Daniel 9:7; Ezekiel 36:19