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Ezekiel 16:42

Ezekiel 16:42
So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,.... The low estate they were once in, and the great favours bestowed upon them, which laid them under great obligation to serve the Lord, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ezekiel 16:35-43

Judah is now represented as undergoing the punishment adjudged to an adulteress and murderess. Only in her utter destruction shall the wrath of the Lord, the jealous God, cease. Eze 16:36 Filthiness -…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

I will be quiet and will be no more angry - I will completely abandon thee; have nothing more to do with thee; think no more of thee. When God in judgment ceases to reprehend, this is the severest…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Ezekiel 16:35-43

Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

make my fury … to rest i.e. satisfy and appease it. Cf. ch. Eze 5:13.