Ezequiel 20:47

47 Dile al desierto del sur: “Esto dice el Señor
Soberano: ‘¡Oye la palabra del Señor
! Te prenderé fuego y se quemará todo árbol, esté verde o seco. Las horrendas llamas no se extinguirán y arrasarán con todo, desde el sur hasta el norte.

Ezequiel 20:47 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 20:47

And say to the forest of the south
To the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea: hear the word of the Lord;
attend to it, and receive it, believe it, and take warning from it: thus saith the Lord God, behold, I will kindle a fire in thee;
in Jerusalem; meaning that he would send great calamities among them, the sword of the Chaldean army, famine, and pestilence; and that at last it should be burnt with fire, and the remainder of the inhabitants be carried captive: and it shall devour every green tree, and every dry tree;
all sorts of persons should be consumed by one or other of the above calamities, high and low, rich and poor, good and bad; and if good men should suffer, comparable to green trees, which fire will not so easily burn, not being fit fuel for it; then much more bad men, who were by far the most numerous, comparable to dry trees, and so fit fuel for the flames, and easily consumed thereby: the flaming flame shall not be quenched
or, the "flame, flame"; or, "the flame of flame" ^F15; signifying either the succession of these calamities one after another; or the force and strength of them, which should not be abated until the ruin of the city was completed: and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt therein;
which some understand of an utter destruction of the Jews, either by sword, famine, and pestilence, or by captivity from Jerusalem or Judea unto Babylon; but rather the meaning is, that all the inhabitants thereof should suffer, from one end of it to the other, from Beersheba to Dan, the country lying in such a position.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (tbhlv tbhl) "flamma flamma, pro flamma continua et perpetua", Vatablus; "flamma inflamatissima", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus "flamma flammae", Montanus, Piscator.

Ezequiel 20:47 In-Context

45 Juicio contra el Neguev
Después recibí este mensaje del Señor
:

46 «Hijo de hombre, ponte de cara al sur
y denuncia a esa región; profetiza contra los matorrales del Neguev.

47 Dile al desierto del sur: “Esto dice el Señor
Soberano: ‘¡Oye la palabra del Señor
! Te prenderé fuego y se quemará todo árbol, esté verde o seco. Las horrendas llamas no se extinguirán y arrasarán con todo, desde el sur hasta el norte.

48 Entonces el mundo entero verá que yo, el Señor
, prendí este fuego, que no se apagará’”».

49 Entonces dije: «Oh Señor
Soberano, ¡la gente anda diciendo de mí: “Él solo habla en enigmas!”».