
Text -- Ezekiel 7:27 (NET)




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Zedekiah.

Wesley: Eze 7:27 - -- Hang down, and melt away. What can men contrive or do for themselves, when God is departed from them? All must needs be in tears, all in trouble, when...
Hang down, and melt away. What can men contrive or do for themselves, when God is departed from them? All must needs be in tears, all in trouble, when God comes to judge them according to their deserts, and so make them know, that he is the Lord, to whom vengeance belongeth.
JFB: Eze 7:27 - -- The general multitude, as distinguished from the "king" and the "prince." The consternation shall pervade all ranks. The king, whose duty it was to an...
The general multitude, as distinguished from the "king" and the "prince." The consternation shall pervade all ranks. The king, whose duty it was to animate others and find a remedy for existing evils, shall himself be in the utmost anxiety; a mark of the desperate state of affairs.

JFB: Eze 7:27 - -- Clothing is designed to keep off shame; but in this case shame shall be the clothing.
Clothing is designed to keep off shame; but in this case shame shall be the clothing.

JFB: Eze 7:27 - -- Literally, "judgments," that is, what just judgment awards to them; used to imply the exact correspondence of God's judgment with the judicial penalti...
Literally, "judgments," that is, what just judgment awards to them; used to imply the exact correspondence of God's judgment with the judicial penalties they had incurred: they oppressed the poor and deprived them of liberty; therefore they shall be oppressed and lose their own liberty.
This eighth chapter begins a new stage of Ezekiel's prophecies and continues to the end of the eleventh chapter. The connected visions at Eze. 3:12-7:27 comprehended Judah and Israel; but the visions (Eze. 8:1-11:25) refer immediately to Jerusalem and the remnant of Judah under Zedekiah, as distinguished from the Babylonian exiles.
Calvin -> Eze 7:27
Calvin: Eze 7:27 - -- In this verse the Prophet affirms that God’s vengeance should be so common that it should alight equally upon the highest and the lowest. He begins...
In this verse the Prophet affirms that God’s vengeance should be so common that it should alight equally upon the highest and the lowest. He begins with the king, then he descends to his counselors, then he comprehends the whole people. The king shall lament, he says. But it is his duty to give life to others, and then to devise a remedy for all evils; but when the king has nothing left but grief and sorrow, it is a sign of despair. He metaphorically clothes the elders in a garment of desolation. We know that a garment has two uses; since it fortifies us as a defense against the cold, and then it hides whatever is dishonorable in us. In the opposite sense the Prophet says, shame shall be as a garment to the elders, and then he goes down to the common people. At the same time, he assigns the reason, I, says he, will do to them according to their ways
TSK -> Eze 7:27
TSK: Eze 7:27 - -- king : Eze 12:10-22, Eze 17:15-21, Eze 21:25; Jer 52:8-11
I will : Eze 7:4-8, Eze 18:30; Isa 3:11; Rom 2:5-10
according to their deserts : Heb. with t...
king : Eze 12:10-22, Eze 17:15-21, Eze 21:25; Jer 52:8-11
I will : Eze 7:4-8, Eze 18:30; Isa 3:11; Rom 2:5-10
according to their deserts : Heb. with their judgments, Mat 7:2; Jam 2:13

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Poole -> Eze 7:27
Poole: Eze 7:27 - -- The king Zedekiah, shall mourn, droop and despair, and every magistrate shall despond. The hands of the people: see Eze 7:17 .
Shall be troubled ha...
The king Zedekiah, shall mourn, droop and despair, and every magistrate shall despond. The hands of the people: see Eze 7:17 .
Shall be troubled hang down, and melt away. I will no more forbear what they have deserved, I will repay, and they shall know my vengeance.
Gill -> Eze 7:27
Gill: Eze 7:27 - -- The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,.... Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being able to save himself an...
The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation,.... Meaning one and the same person, Zedekiah not being able to save himself and his people; and who falling into the hands of the king of Babylon, his children were slain before him; then his own eyes put out, and he bound in chains, and carried captive to Babylon, Jer 39:6;
and the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled; weakened through fear and distress; incapable of business, and unable to help themselves and others; and the more so, when they found their case desperate; which was manifest by the mourning and desolation of their king, in whom their confidence had been placed:
I will do unto them after their way; or, "for their way" p; because of their evil ways and works:
and according to their deserts will I judge them; take vengeance on them, as the Targum: or, "in their judgments will I judge them" q; the same measure they have meted out to others shall be measured out to them, Mat 7:1,
and they shall know that I am the Lord; the only Lord God, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, true and faithful, holy, just, and good.

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TSK Synopsis -> Eze 7:1-27
TSK Synopsis: Eze 7:1-27 - --1 The final desolation of Israel.16 The mournful repentance of them that escape.20 The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abomina...
MHCC -> Eze 7:23-27
MHCC: Eze 7:23-27 - --Whoever break the bands of God's law, will find themselves bound and held by the chains of his judgments. Since they encouraged one another to sin, Go...
Matthew Henry -> Eze 7:23-27
Matthew Henry: Eze 7:23-27 - -- Here is, I. The prisoner arraigned: Make a chain, in which to drag the criminal to the bar, and set him before the tribunal of divine justice; let...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Eze 7:23-27
Keil-Delitzsch: Eze 7:23-27 - --
Fourth Strophe
Still worse is coming, namely, the captivity of the people, and overthrow of the kingdom. - Eze 7:23. Make the chain, for the lan...
Constable: Eze 4:1--24:27 - --II. Oracles of judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin chs. 4-24
This section of the book contains prophecies th...

Constable: Eze 4:1--7:27 - --A. Ezekiel's initial warnings chs. 4-7
In this section, Ezekiel grouped several symbolic acts that pictu...

Constable: Eze 6:1--7:27 - --2. The judgment coming on Judah chs. 6-7
The Lord commanded Ezekiel to announce prophetic messag...
