then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
I see that I cannot finish, and I think the time is advancing. PRAYER. Grant, Almighty God, since thou desirest a continual memorial of thy former remarkable judgments on thy people, that we may this day restrict ourselves to thy pure worship — grant, I say, that we may be teachable by thee, and never attempt to adulterate thy worship by our devices; and since...
Mercy rejoices against judgment here. God leaves a remnant, few of many, and this itself shows they deserved to be cut off with the rest. But those scattered abroad, deprived of Jerusalem's walls, stay themselves on God alone and are given repentance unto life.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 6:8-10
And they shall know that I am the Lord,.... As in Eze 6:7; and that I have not said in vain; either within himself, in his own purposes and decrees; so the Targum, "I have not in vain decreed in my word;'' or by the mouth of the prophets: that I would do this evil unto them; in carrying them captive, and dispersing them in...