Ezekiel 21:30

30 Et toi, profane, méchant, prince d'Israël, dont le jour arrive, au temps où l'iniquité a son terme,

Ezekiel 21:30 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 21:30

Shall I cause it to return into his sheath?
&c.] The drawn and furbished sword of the Chaldeans? no, I will not; it shall never return or be put up until the Ammonites are utterly consumed. Some read these words in the imperative, as the Targum,

``return the sword to its sheath;''

so the Vulgate Latin version, "return to thy sheath"; and so may be considered as a direction to the Ammonites to put up their swords, and not stand in their own defence, since it would be to no purpose; though Jerom, and Grotius after him, take the words to be an apostrophe to the drawn sword of the Chaldeans to sheath itself, having done its work upon the Jews and Ammonites; or to the Chaldeans to return to Babylon, and where they also should be punished; and so interpret all that follows of the destruction of the Babylonians by the Medes and Persians; but the first sense is best: I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of
thy nativity;
not in the place where their father Ammon was born, which was at Zoar; but where they first became a kingdom and state, a body politic; or where the present generation of them were born; they should not be carried out of their own land, but destroyed in it.

Ezekiel 21:30 In-Context

28 C'est à leurs yeux un présage trompeur, eux qui ont fait serments sur serments; mais lui, il se souvient de leur iniquité, en sorte qu'ils seront pris.

29 C'est pourquoi, ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Parce que vous rappelez le souvenir de votre iniquité, en mettant à nu vos transgressions, en montrant vos péchés dans toutes vos actions; parce que vous en rappelez le souvenir, vous serez saisis par la main de l'ennemi.

30 Et toi, profane, méchant, prince d'Israël, dont le jour arrive, au temps où l'iniquité a son terme,

31 Ainsi a dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel: Ote cette tiare; enlève cette couronne; les choses vont changer. Ce qui est élevé sera abaissé, et ce qui est abaissé sera élevé.

32 En pièces, en pièces, en pièces je la réduirai! Et elle ne sera plus, jusqu'à ce que vienne celui à qui appartient le jugement, et auquel je le remettrai.