Ezequiel 21:28

28 »Y tú, hijo de hombre, profetiza y declara que esto afirma el SEÑOR omnipotente acerca de los amonitas y de sus insultos: “La espada, la espada está desenvainada para la masacre; pulida está para devorar y centellear como relámpago.

Ezequiel 21:28 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:28

And thou, son of man, prophesy, and say
Here begins a new prophecy, or rather an enlargement on part of the former; two ways being marked out for the sword of the Chaldeans to come in; the one leading to Jerusalem, the other to Rabbath of the Ammonites; the prophecy being finished concerning the former, here an account is given of the latter; how the sword should move that way, and what execution it would do: thus saith the Lord God concerning the Ammonites, and concerning their
reproach;
Nebuchadnezzar, agreeably to the above prophecy, having taken his route to Jerusalem, as his divination directed him, and destroyed that, returned to Babylon, without making any attempt upon the Ammonites; which so flushed them, that they insulted the Jews, and laughed at their destruction, as if their God whom they served could not save them; attributing their safety and prosperity to the idols they worshipped; see ( Ezekiel 25:1-7 ) ( Zephaniah 2:8-10 ) : even say thou, the sword, the sword is drawn for the slaughter;
the same sword of the Chaldeans, which was drawn for the slaughter of the Jews, is now drawn for the slaughter of the Ammonites; and which is repeated for the certainty of it, and to inject terror; and this, as Josephus ^F21 says, was accomplished five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, in the twenty third year of Nebuchadnezzar: it is furbished, to consume because of the glittering; being brightened
and made sharp,
it not only terrified with its glittering, but was more fit and prepared to cut and destroy; see ( Ezekiel 21:9 Ezekiel 21:10 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Antiqu. Jud. l. 10. c. 9. sect. 7.

Ezequiel 21:28 In-Context

26 Así dice el SEÑOR omnipotente: Quítate el turbante, renuncia a la corona, que todo cambiará. Lo humilde será exaltado y lo excelso será humillado.

27 ¡Ruinas, ruinas, todo lo convertiré en ruinas! Esto no sucederá hasta que venga aquel a quien le asiste el derecho, y a quien le pediré que establezca la justicia.

28 »Y tú, hijo de hombre, profetiza y declara que esto afirma el SEÑOR omnipotente acerca de los amonitas y de sus insultos: “La espada, la espada está desenvainada para la masacre; pulida está para devorar y centellear como relámpago.

29 La espada degollará a esos infames malvados, pues sus visiones son falsas y sus adivinanzas, mentiras. Pero su día ha llegado; ¡la hora de su castigo es inminente!

30 »”¡Espada, vuelve a tu vaina! Allí, en tu tierra de origen, donde fuiste forjada, ¡allí te juzgaré!