Ezekiel 22:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Guilty in thy blood; greatly or deeply guilty. Thou has shed, in abundance, cruelly and perfidiously. Defiled thy self; as a polluted thing, loathsome to be seen or touched Thine idols; dunghill gods. Caused thy days to draw near;. hastened the days of thy sorrows and punishment, of the desolation in Judea, and of thy captivity in Babylon; thou hast shortened thine own peace and my patience. Came even unto thy years; grown up now to the eldest years in sin, beyond which thou wert not to go: it is the same h effect with that went before. Therefore; for thy old sin, thou art given up to be a reproach. A reproach; to be scorned by them, to be branded as a most perfidious, irreligious, unconscionable sort of people, not worthy to live Or else to be a taunt and by-word among all nations; thus it was Psalms 44:13 Jeremiah 24:9. To all countries that were round about them, or, farther off, had heard of them.

Ezekiel 22:4

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.