And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in 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...