And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
The Prophet does not so carefully preserve the historical order in the context of the words. For he says, the Chaldeans had returned He afterwards adds, while they were striking the city that he fell upon his face. But we know this to be sufficiently common among the Hebrews, to relate first what is done afterwards.
When God has gathered His wheat into His garner, nothing remains but to burn up the chaff. Sin provokes the God of infinite mercy to such severity that even the innocent fall; what an evil thing it is, then, that men will not repent and prevent their own ruin.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 9:5-11
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them,.... That were in the city: and I was left; in the temple; and the only one that was left there, the rest were slain; for there were none marked in the temple, only in the city, Eze 9:4; that I fell upon my face; as a supplicant, with great humility: and cried, and said; being...