Ezequiel 36:18

18 Por eso, por haber derramado tanta sangre sobre la tierra y por haberla contaminado con sus ídolos, desaté mi furor contra ellos.

Ezequiel 36:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 36:18

Wherefore I poured my fury on them
Like a mighty flood that carries all before it, in just retaliation for the blood they had shed upon the land;
the innocent blood, as the Targum; the blood of righteous men, that opposed and reproved them for their sinful ways; the blood of the prophets, that were sent to warn them of them; and especially the blood of the Son of God; for this prophecy reaches further than to the times of the Babylonish captivity: and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it;
or, "for their dung" ^F13; their dunghill gods; not only for their idols, and their idolatry, before the Babylonish captivity, which they after that were free from; but for the traditions of their elders, they set up against and above the word of God; and their own legal righteousness, their idols, the works of their hands, which wore as dung; and through their attachment to which they rejected Christ and his righteousness; and which brought wrath upon them, and them into their present captivity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (Mhylwlgb) "stercoreis diis suis", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus; "stercoribus suis", Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezequiel 36:18 In-Context

16 El SEÑOR me dirigió otra vez la palabra:

17 «Hijo de hombre, cuando los israelitas habitaban en su propia tierra, ellos mismos la contaminaron con su conducta y sus acciones. Su conducta ante mí era semejante a la impureza de una mujer en sus días de menstruación.

18 Por eso, por haber derramado tanta sangre sobre la tierra y por haberla contaminado con sus ídolos, desaté mi furor contra ellos.

19 Los dispersé entre las naciones, y quedaron esparcidos entre diversos pueblos. Los juzgué según su conducta y sus acciones.

20 Pero al llegar a las distintas naciones, ellos profanaban mi santonombre, pues se decía de ellos: “Son el pueblo del SEÑOR, pero han tenido que abandonar su tierra”.