Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
God sends me to confront the Ammonites with the same boldness as a prophet set his face as flint against them. Though I have long spoken against Israel's sins, I have never wavered in my love for God's covenant people; and now I must face down these proud enemies who gloated over Israel's ruin.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 25:1-7
Behold, therefore, I will stretch out mine hand upon thee,.... In just retaliation for clapping their hands against his people; and which hand of the Lord they would find to be a heavy one, and which they would not be able either to resist or bear.
a spoil--so the Hebrew Margin, or Keri, for the text or Chetib, "meat" (so Eze 26:5; Eze 34:28). Their goods were to be a "spoil to the foe"; their state was to be "cut off," so as to be no more a "people"; and they were as individuals, for the most part, to be "destroyed."