Ezekiel 5:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Thus; in this terrible and relentless manner already declared. Mine anger; my provoked justice, not passion, shall be executed to the full of that I intend and have spoken. My fury: after the manner of man is this spoken, and implies the great and hot displeasure of the Lord. To rest; my bowels were troubled how to spare, and yet to punish, but now I will rest from such strugglings between my mercy and my justice; this shall be glorified, and I will be at ease. I will be comforted; I did what in reason they could expect, and more than I was bound to, for their preservation; but nothing would prevail. O Israel, thou art destroyed, but it is my satisfaction thou hast destroyed thyself, and canst not charge it on me. They shall know; these ruined ones by sad experience shall know. In my zeal; in that indignation against your sins which the love of my own glory stirred up within me. In my provoked jealousy I spake, and will act against a persisting, perfidious, and adulterous wife, and it shall be known when I have finished my work.

Ezekiel 5:13

13 Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.