Thus says the Lord GOD: “Clap your hands and stamp your foot and say, Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, for they shall fall by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.
God adds a sign because words alone move the obstinate nowhere. By clapping hands and stamping feet the Prophet confirms his word, not for his own sake but because the people were deaf to all language. How monstrous that men laugh at God's thunder from heaven, secure in their own desires, an old disease that persists to this day.
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The Prophet must show by gesture that he believes what he says and grieves over it deeply. Those who know the worth of souls will endure ridicule to edify the weak. We are bound to lament not only our own sins but the evil abominations of others and the ruin they bring upon themselves.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 6:11-14
No man escapes God's hand: the distant die by plague, the near by sword, the besieged by famine. There is no fleeing from Him when He resolves to punish sin. The incorrigible receive wrath to the uttermost, and God fulfills the whole counsel of His will in their destruction.
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