Ezekiel
Ezekiel 39:29KJV·traditional attribution

Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

The heathen mistook Israel's ruin for proof that God could not keep His covenant; but when He restores His people after their reformation, all the world will see the truth: Israel fell not by God's weakness but by their own sin, which forfeited His favour and threw them into His enemies' hands. This turns their reproach into His glory.

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Commenting on Ezekiel 39:23-29

John Gill Reformed Baptist

Neither will I hide my face any more from them,.... The Jews, upon their future conversion, will always have the worship of God among them, and his presence with them; he will always take notice of them; they will ever be under his protection and care; he will never remove his Shechinah from them any more, as the Targum: a further proof that this refers...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed

poured out my Spirit upon . . . Israel--the sure forerunner of their conversion (Joe 2:28; Zac 12:10). The pouring out of His Spirit is a pledge that He will hide His face no more (Co2 1:22; Eph 1:14; Phi 1:6). The arrangements as to the land and the temple are, in many particulars, different from those subsisting before the captivity.