And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire.
Jerusalem pleads innocence, I am not polluted, but the facts convict her utterly. She revoked her oath to her sovereign Lord, kept league with His enemies, and trampled His crown. Now those very lovers she courted will execute her sentence; sinful affection breeds hatred swift as Amnon's did toward Tamar. The passionate fool swings from extreme to extreme.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 23:22-49
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee,.... As a jealous husband, enraged against his adulterous wife, falls upon her in his fury, and uses her with great severity; so the Jews having committed spiritual fornication, that is, idolatry, and departed from the Lord, he threatens to stir up the fury of his jealousy, and punish them severely...
take away thy nose . . . ears--Adulteresses were punished so among the Egyptians and Chaldeans. Oriental beauties wore ornaments in the ear and nose. How just the retribution, that the features most bejewelled should be mutilated! So, allegorically as to Judah, the spiritual adulteress.