Ezequiel 21:28

28 Y tú, hijo de hombre, profetiza, y di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS sobre los hijos de Amón, y su oprobio. Dirás pues: El cuchillo, el cuchillo está desenvainado para degollar; acicalado para consumir con resplandor.

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 dijo el Señor DIOS: Depón la tiara, quita la corona; esto no será más así; al bajo alzaré, y al alto abatiré.

27 Del revés, del revés, del revés la tornaré; y no será esto más, hasta que venga aquel de quién es el derecho, y yo se lo entregaré.

28 Y tú, hijo de hombre, profetiza, y di: Así dijo el Señor DIOS sobre los hijos de Amón, y su oprobio. Dirás pues: El cuchillo, el cuchillo está desenvainado para degollar; acicalado para consumir con resplandor.

29 Te profetizan vanidad, te adivinan mentira, para entregarte con los cuellos de los malos sentenciados a muerte, cuyo día es venido en el tiempo de la consumación de la maldad.

30 ¿Lo volveré a su vaina? En el lugar donde te criaste, en la tierra donde has vivido, te tengo que juzgar.