Chapter 22:
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Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 Lamentations Daniel
Ezekiel 22
Concise Complete
The sins of Jerusalem. (1-16) Israel is condemned as
dross. (17-22) As the corruption is general, so shall be the punishment. (23-31)
Verses 1-16 The
prophet is to judge the bloody city; the city of bloods. Jerusalem is so called,
because of her crimes. The sins which Jerusalem stands charged with, are
exceeding sinful. Murder, idolatry, disobedience to parents, oppression and
extortion, profanation of the sabbath and holy things, seventh commandment sins,
lewdness and adultery. Unmindfulness of God was at the bottom of all this
wickedness. Sinners provoke God because they forget him. Jerusalem has filled
the measure of her sins. Those who give up themselves to be ruled by their
lusts, will justly be given up to be portioned by them. Those who resolve to be
their own masters, let them expect no other happiness than their own hands can
furnish; and a miserable portion it will prove.
Verses 17-22
Israel, compared with other nations, had been as the gold and silver compared
with baser metals. But they were now as the refuse that is consumed in the
furnace, or thrown away when the silver is refined. Sinners, especially
backsliding professors, are, in God's account, useless and fit for nothing. When
God brings his own people into the furnace, he sits by them as the refiner by
his gold, to see that they are not continued there any longer than is fitting
and needful. The dross shall be wholly separated, and the good metal purified.
Let those who suffer pains, or lingering sickness, and find that their hearts
can scarcely bear these light and momentary afflictions, take warning to flee
from the wrath to come; for if these trials are not sanctified by the power of
the Holy Spirit, to the cleansing their hearts and hands from sin, far worse
things will come upon them.
Verses 23-31
All orders and degrees of men had helped to fill the measure of the nation's
guilt. The people that had any power abused it, and even the buyers and sellers
find some way to oppress one another. It bodes ill to a people when judgments
are breaking in upon them, and the spirit of prayer is restrained. Let all who
fear God, unite to promote his truth and righteousness; as wicked men of every
rank and profession plot together to run them down.
Chapter 22:
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