Ezekiel 14:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

My face; my displeased face, my wrath, which none can bear; the phrase Leviticus 17:10, Leviticus 20:3 Ezekiel 15:7. A sign of Divine vengeance, provoked by sin and executed on the sinner. A proverb; of whom every body shall speak with taunt and curse, Deuteronomy 28:37. I will cut him off; either by an immediate stroke from heaven, or else in an undeniably vindictive way, Leviticus 20:3. From the midst of my people; openly, as what is done in the sight of all, or as one separated from God's people by this dreadfill excommunication, and who shall have no portion with them in this or the next life.

Ezekiel 14:8

8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.