21But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-21)Prophecy was designed to exalt every valley as well as to bring low every mountain and hill (Isa. 40:4), and prophets were to speak not only conviction to the presumptuous and secure, but comfort to the despised and desponding that trembled at God’s word. The prophet Ezekiel, having in the former part of this chapter received instructions for the awakening of those that were at ease in Zion , is i…
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