Ezequiel 21:28

28 “E você, filho do homem, profetize e diga: Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR, acerca dos amonitas e dos seus insultos:“Uma espada, uma espada,empunhada para matança,polida para consumire para luzir como relâmpago!

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 e assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR: Tire o turbante e a coroa. Não será como antes—os humildes serão exaltados, e os exaltados serão humilhados.

27 Uma desgraça! Uma desgraça! Eu farei dela uma desgraça! Não será restaurada, enquanto não vier aquele a quem ela pertence por direito; a ele eu a darei.

28 “E você, filho do homem, profetize e diga: Assim diz o Soberano, o SENHOR, acerca dos amonitas e dos seus insultos:“Uma espada, uma espada,empunhada para matança,polida para consumire para luzir como relâmpago!

29 A despeito das visões falsase das adivinhações mentirosas sobre vocês,ela será posta no pescoçodos ímpios que devem ser mortose cujo dia chegou,cujo momento de castigo é agora.

30 “Volte a espada à sua bainha.No lugar onde vocês foram criados,na terra dos seus antepassados,eu os julgarei.