Ezekiel 24:12-14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

She hath wearied herself with lies Hebrew, תאנים, with vanities, or troubles; multiplying her idolatries, and seeking help sometimes from one idol and sometimes from another, but all in vain. The expression may also include the alliances the Jewish people entered into, and the various arts of policy they employed to avert their ruin, none of which were of any service to them: as if he had said, She has taken a great deal of pains, but to no purpose: her allies, their promises, their forces, their gods, all prove a lie to the house of Judah. Her great scum went not out of her, &c. All the admonitions I gave her by my prophets, and my sundry chastisements and punishments of her sin, availed nothing to the purifying her from her idolatries and other wickedness; her scum shall be in the fire The fire must consume her and her wickedness. In thy filthiness is lewdness Thou hast shown thyself shameless and incorrigible in thine idolatries. Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged I did what was requisite on my part to thy amendment, but thou refusedst to comply with those frequent calls and exhortations which I gave thee; and therefore my Spirit shall not strive with thee any longer with gentle methods, but I will proceed to execute my severest judgments upon thee, namely, by sending thee into captivity, and letting thee suffer all the calamities of it for a long season. According to thy doings shall they judge thee According to thy deserts shall the Chaldeans, who are the ministers of my justice, punish thee.