VISION OF CUTTING THE HAIRS, AND THE CALAMITIES FORESHADOWED THEREBY. (Eze. 5:1-17) knife . . . razor--the sword of the foe (compare Isa 7:20). This vision implies even severer judgments than the Egyptian afflictions …
1Y tú, hijo de hombre, tómate un cuchillo agudo, toma una navaja de barbero, y hazla pasar sobre tu cabeza y tu barba; toma después una balanza de pesar y divide los cabellos.
2Una tercera parte quemarás a fuego en medio de la ciudad, cuando se cumplan los días del asedio; y tomarás una tercera parte y la cortarás con espada alrededor de la ciudad; y una tercera parte esparcirás al viento, y yo desenvainaré espada en pos de ellos.
3Tomarás también de allí unos pocos en número, y los atarás en la falda de tu manto.
4Y tomarás otra vez de ellos, y los echarás en medio del fuego, y en el fuego los quemarás; de allí saldrá el fuego a toda la casa de Israel.
5Así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: Esta es Jerusalén; la puse en medio de las naciones y de las tierras alrededor de ella.
6Y ella cambió mis decretos y mis ordenanzas en impiedad más que las naciones, y más que las tierras que están alrededor de ella; porque desecharon mis decretos y mis mandamientos, y no anduvieron en ellos.
7Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová: ¿Por haberos multiplicado más que las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros, no habéis andado en mis mandamientos, ni habéis guardado mis leyes? Ni aun según las leyes de las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros habéis andado.
8Así, pues, ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí yo estoy contra ti; sí, yo, y haré juicios en medio de ti ante los ojos de las naciones.
9Y haré en ti lo que nunca hice, ni jamás haré cosa semejante, a causa de todas tus abominaciones.
10Por eso los padres comerán a los hijos en medio de ti, y los hijos comerán a sus padres; y haré en ti juicios, y esparciré a todos los vientos todo lo que quedare de ti.
11Por tanto, vivo yo, dice Jehová el Señor, ciertamente por haber profanado mi santuario con todas tus abominaciones, te quebrantaré yo también; mi ojo no perdonará, ni tampoco tendré yo misericordia.
12Una tercera parte de ti morirá de pestilencia y será consumida de hambre en medio de ti; y una tercera parte caerá a espada alrededor de ti; y una tercera parte esparciré a todos los vientos, y tras ellos desenvainaré espada.
13Y se cumplirá mi furor y saciaré en ellos mi enojo, y tomaré satisfacción; y sabrán que yo Jehová he hablado en mi celo, cuando cumpla en ellos mi enojo.
14Y te convertiré en soledad y en oprobio entre las naciones que están alrededor de ti, a los ojos de todo transeúnte.
15Y serás oprobio y escarnio y escarmiento y espanto a las naciones que están alrededor de ti, cuando yo haga en ti juicios con furor e indignación, y en reprensiones de ira. Yo Jehová he hablado.
16Cuando arroje yo sobre ellos las perniciosas saetas del hambre, que serán para destrucción, las cuales enviaré para destruiros, entonces aumentaré el hambre sobre vosotros, y quebrantaré entre vosotros el sustento del pan.
17Enviaré, pues, sobre vosotros hambre, y bestias feroces que te destruyan; y pestilencia y sangre pasarán por en medio de ti, y enviaré sobre ti espada. Yo Jehová he hablado.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. Three classes are described. The sword was to destroy one third of the people; famine and plague …
Three classes are described. The sword was to destroy one third of the people; famine and plague another third ("fire" in Eze 5:2 being explained in Eze 5:12 to mean pestilence and famine); that which remained was to be scattered among the nations. A few only of the last portion were to escape, symbolized by the hairs bound in Ezekiel's skirts (Eze 5:3; Jer 40:6; Jer 52:16). Even of these some were to be thrown into the fiery ordeal again (Eze 5:4; Jer 41:1-2, &c.; Jer 44:14, &c.). The "skirts" being able to contain but few express that extreme limit to which God's goodness can reach.
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II. Explanation of the symbols:
Explanation of the symbols:
Jerusalem--not the mere city, but the people of Israel generally, of which it was the center and representative.
in . . . midst--Jerusalem is regarded in God's point of view as center of the whole earth, designed to radiate the true light over the nations in all directions. Compare Margin ("navel"), Eze 38:12; Psa 48:2; Jer 3:17. No center in the ancient heathen world could have been selected more fitted than Canaan to be a vantage ground, whence the people of God might have acted with success upon the heathenism of the world. It lay midway between the oldest and most civilized states, Egypt and Ethiopia on one side, and Babylon, Nineveh, and India on the other, and afterwards Persia, Greece, and Rome. The Phœnician mariners were close by, through whom they might have transmitted the true religion to the remotest lands; and all around the Ishmaelites, the great inland traders in South Asia and North Africa. Israel was thus placed, not for its own selfish good, but to be the spiritual benefactor of the whole world. Compare Psa 67:1-7 throughout. Failing in this, and falling into idolatry, its guilt was far worse than that of the heathen; not that Israel literally went beyond the heathen in abominable idolatries. But "corruptio optimi pessima"; the perversion of that which in itself is the best is worse than the perversion of that which is less perfect: is in fact the worst of all kinds of perversion. Therefore their punishment was the severest. So the position of the Christian professing Church now, if it be not a light to the heathen world, its condemnation will be sorer than theirs (Mat 5:13; Mat 11:21-24; Heb 10:28-29).
III
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III. changed . . . into--rather, "hath resisted My judgments wickedly"; "hath rebelled against My ordi…
changed . . . into--rather, "hath resisted My judgments wickedly"; "hath rebelled against My ordinances for wickedness" [BUXTORF]. But see on Eze 5:7, end.
IV
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IV. multiplied--rather, "have been more abundantly outrageous"; literally, "to tumultuate"; to have a…
multiplied--rather, "have been more abundantly outrageous"; literally, "to tumultuate"; to have an extravagant rage for idols.
neither have done according to the judgments of the nations--have not been as tenacious of the true religion as the nations have been of the false. The heathen "changed" not their gods, but the Jews changed Jehovah for idols (see Eze 5:6, "changed My judgments into wickedness," that is, idolatry, Jer 2:11). The Chaldean version and the Masora support the negative. Others omit it (as it is omitted in Eze 11:12), and translate, "but have done according to the judgments," &c. However, both Eze 11:12 and also this verse are true. They in one sense "did according to the heathen," namely, in all that was bad; in another, namely, in that which was good, zeal for religion, they did not. Eze 5:9 also proves the negative to be genuine; because in changing their religion, they have not done as the nations which have not changed theirs, "I (also) will do in thee that which I have not done."
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V. I, even I--awfully emphatic. I, even I, whom thou thinkest to be asleep, but who am ever reigning…
I, even I--awfully emphatic. I, even I, whom thou thinkest to be asleep, but who am ever reigning as the Omnipotent Avenger of sin, will vindicate My righteous government before the nations by judgments on thee.
VI
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VI. See on Eze 5:7.
See on Eze 5:7.
that which I have not done--worse than any former judgments (Lam 4:6; Dan 9:12). The prophecy includes the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the final one by Antichrist (Zac 13:8-9; Zac 14:2), as well as that by Nebuchadnezzar. Their doom of evil was not exhausted by the Chaldean conquest. There was to be a germinating evil in their destiny, because there would be, as the Lord foresaw, a germinating evil in their character. As God connected Himself peculiarly with Israel, so there was to be a peculiar manifestation of God's wrath against sin in their case [FAIRBAIRN]. The higher the privileges the greater the punishment in the case of abuse of them. When God's greatest favor, the gospel, was given, and was abused by them, then "the wrath was to come on them to the uttermost" (Th1 2:16).
VII
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VII. fathers . . . eat . . . sons--alluding to Moses words (Lev 26:29; Deu 28:53), with the additional…
fathers . . . eat . . . sons--alluding to Moses words (Lev 26:29; Deu 28:53), with the additional sad feature, that "the sons should eat their fathers" (see Kg2 6:28; Jer 19:9; Lam 2:20; Lam 4:10).
VIII
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VIII. as I five--the most solemn of oaths, pledging the self-existence of God for the certainty of the …
as I five--the most solemn of oaths, pledging the self-existence of God for the certainty of the event.
defiled my sanctuary--the climax of Jewish guilt: their defiling Jehovah's temple by introducing idols.
diminish--literally "withdraw," namely, Mine "eye" (which presently follows), that is, My favors; Job 36:7 uses the Hebrew verb in the same way. As the Jews had withdrawn from God's sanctuary its sacredness by "defiling" it, so God withdraws His countenance from them. The significance of the expression lies in the allusion to Deu 4:2, "Ye shall not diminish aught from the word which I command you"; they had done so, therefore God diminishes them. The reading found in six manuscripts, "I will cut thee off," is not so good.
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IX. Statement in plain terms of what was intended by the symbols (Eze 5:2; see Eze 6:12; Jer 15:2; Je…
Statement in plain terms of what was intended by the symbols (Eze 5:2; see Eze 6:12; Jer 15:2; Jer 21:9).
draw out . . . sword after them-- (Lev 26:33). Skeptics object; no such thing happened under Zedekiah, as is here foretold; namely, that a third part of the nation should die by pestilence, a third part by the sword, and a third be scattered unto all winds, and a sword sent after them. But the prophecy is not restricted to Zedekiah's time. It includes all that Israel suffered, or was still to suffer, for their sins, especially those committed at that period (Eze 17:21). It only received its primary fulfilment under Zedekiah: numbers then died by the pestilence and by the sword; and numbers were scattered in all quarters and not carried to Babylonia alone, as the objectors assert (compare Ezr 1:4; Est 3:8; Oba 1:14).
pestilence . . . and famine--signified by the symbol "fire" (Eze 5:2). Compare Isa 13:8; Lam 5:10; plague and famine burning and withering the countenance, as fire does.
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X. cause my fury to rest upon them--as on its proper and permanent resting-place (Isa 30:32, Margin).
cause my fury to rest upon them--as on its proper and permanent resting-place (Isa 30:32, Margin).
I will be comforted--expressed in condescension to man's conceptions; signifying His satisfaction in the vindication of His justice by His righteous judgments (Deu 28:63; Pro 1:26; Isa 1:24).
they shall how--by bitter experience.
XI
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XI. reproach among the nations--They whose idolatries Israel had adopted, instead of comforting, woul…
reproach among the nations--They whose idolatries Israel had adopted, instead of comforting, would only exult in their calamities brought on by those idolatries (compare Luk 15:15).
XII
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XII. instruction--literally, "a corrective chastisement," that is, a striking example to warn all of t…
instruction--literally, "a corrective chastisement," that is, a striking example to warn all of the fatal consequences of sin. For "it shall be"; all ancient versions have "thou," which the connection favors.
XIII
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XIII. arrows of famine--hail, rain, mice, locusts, mildew (see Deu 32:23-24).
arrows of famine--hail, rain, mice, locusts, mildew (see Deu 32:23-24).
increase the famine--literally, "congregate" or "collect." When ye think your harvest safe because ye have escaped drought, mildew, &c., I will find other means [CALVIN], which I will congregate as the forces of an invading army, to bring famine on you.
XIV
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XIV. beasts--perhaps meaning destructive conquerors (Dan 7:4). Rather, literal "beasts," which infest …
beasts--perhaps meaning destructive conquerors (Dan 7:4). Rather, literal "beasts," which infest desolated regions such as Judea was to become (compare Eze 34:28; Exo 23:29; Deu 32:24; Kg2 17:25). The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.
sword--civil war.
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Antiguo Testamento
Ezekiel — Capítulo 5
VISION OF CUTTING THE HAIRS, AND THE CALAMITIES FORESHADOWED THEREBY. (Eze. 5:1-17) knife . . . razor--the sword of the foe (compare Isa 7:20). This vision implies even severer judgments than the Egyptian afflictions …
Texto — Reina-Valera 1960
1Y tú, hijo de hombre, tómate un cuchillo agudo, toma una navaja de barbero, y hazla pasar sobre tu cabeza y tu barba; toma después una balanza de pesar y divide los cabellos.
2Una tercera parte quemarás a fuego en medio de la ciudad, cuando se cumplan los días del asedio; y tomarás una tercera parte y la cortarás con espada alrededor de la ciudad; y una tercera parte esparcirás al viento, y yo desenvainaré espada en pos de ellos.
3Tomarás también de allí unos pocos en número, y los atarás en la falda de tu manto.
4Y tomarás otra vez de ellos, y los echarás en medio del fuego, y en el fuego los quemarás; de allí saldrá el fuego a toda la casa de Israel.
5Así ha dicho Jehová el Señor: Esta es Jerusalén; la puse en medio de las naciones y de las tierras alrededor de ella.
6Y ella cambió mis decretos y mis ordenanzas en impiedad más que las naciones, y más que las tierras que están alrededor de ella; porque desecharon mis decretos y mis mandamientos, y no anduvieron en ellos.
7Por tanto, así ha dicho Jehová: ¿Por haberos multiplicado más que las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros, no habéis andado en mis mandamientos, ni habéis guardado mis leyes? Ni aun según las leyes de las naciones que están alrededor de vosotros habéis andado.
8Así, pues, ha dicho Jehová el Señor: He aquí yo estoy contra ti; sí, yo, y haré juicios en medio de ti ante los ojos de las naciones.
9Y haré en ti lo que nunca hice, ni jamás haré cosa semejante, a causa de todas tus abominaciones.
10Por eso los padres comerán a los hijos en medio de ti, y los hijos comerán a sus padres; y haré en ti juicios, y esparciré a todos los vientos todo lo que quedare de ti.
11Por tanto, vivo yo, dice Jehová el Señor, ciertamente por haber profanado mi santuario con todas tus abominaciones, te quebrantaré yo también; mi ojo no perdonará, ni tampoco tendré yo misericordia.
12Una tercera parte de ti morirá de pestilencia y será consumida de hambre en medio de ti; y una tercera parte caerá a espada alrededor de ti; y una tercera parte esparciré a todos los vientos, y tras ellos desenvainaré espada.
13Y se cumplirá mi furor y saciaré en ellos mi enojo, y tomaré satisfacción; y sabrán que yo Jehová he hablado en mi celo, cuando cumpla en ellos mi enojo.
14Y te convertiré en soledad y en oprobio entre las naciones que están alrededor de ti, a los ojos de todo transeúnte.
15Y serás oprobio y escarnio y escarmiento y espanto a las naciones que están alrededor de ti, cuando yo haga en ti juicios con furor e indignación, y en reprensiones de ira. Yo Jehová he hablado.
16Cuando arroje yo sobre ellos las perniciosas saetas del hambre, que serán para destrucción, las cuales enviaré para destruiros, entonces aumentaré el hambre sobre vosotros, y quebrantaré entre vosotros el sustento del pan.
17Enviaré, pues, sobre vosotros hambre, y bestias feroces que te destruyan; y pestilencia y sangre pasarán por en medio de ti, y enviaré sobre ti espada. Yo Jehová he hablado.
JAMIESON-FAUSSET-BROWN BIBLE COMMENTARY
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I. Three classes are described. The sword was to destroy one third of the people; famine and plague …
Versículo 5
II. Explanation of the symbols:
Versículo 6
III. changed . . . into--rather, "hath resisted My judgments wickedly"; "hath rebelled against My ordi…
Versículo 7
IV. multiplied--rather, "have been more abundantly outrageous"; literally, "to tumultuate"; to have a…
Versículo 8
V. I, even I--awfully emphatic. I, even I, whom thou thinkest to be asleep, but who am ever reigning…
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VI. See on Eze 5:7.
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VII. fathers . . . eat . . . sons--alluding to Moses words (Lev 26:29; Deu 28:53), with the additional…
Versículo 11
VIII. as I five--the most solemn of oaths, pledging the self-existence of God for the certainty of the …
Versículo 12
IX. Statement in plain terms of what was intended by the symbols (Eze 5:2; see Eze 6:12; Jer 15:2; Je…
Versículo 13
X. cause my fury to rest upon them--as on its proper and permanent resting-place (Isa 30:32, Margin).
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XI. reproach among the nations--They whose idolatries Israel had adopted, instead of comforting, woul…
Versículo 15
XII. instruction--literally, "a corrective chastisement," that is, a striking example to warn all of t…
Versículo 16
XIII. arrows of famine--hail, rain, mice, locusts, mildew (see Deu 32:23-24).
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XIV. beasts--perhaps meaning destructive conquerors (Dan 7:4). Rather, literal "beasts," which infest …