Ezekiel 7-9 - The Pitiless Wrath of Yahweh

The Pitiless Wrath of Yahweh

Eze 7:4 LSB – [4] 'For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare [you], but I will put your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am Yahweh!'

Eze 7:19 LSB – [19] 'They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will become an impure thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the fury of Yahweh. They cannot satisfy their soul, nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

The Temple Profaned

Eze 7:26 LSB – [26] 'Disaster will come upon disaster, and report will be [added] to report; then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but the law will be lost from the priest and counsel from the elders.

Visions of Abominations in the Sanctuary

Eze 8:3 LSB – [3] He sent forth the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner [court], where the seat of the figure of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was [located].

Eze 8:18 LSB – [18] "Therefore, I also will do [this] in wrath: My eye will have no pity, nor will I spare; and they will cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them."

The Vision of Yahweh’s Wrath

Eze 9:4 LSB – [4] Yahweh said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, [even] through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being done in its midst."

Eze 9:9-11 LSB – [9] Then He said to me, "The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with bloodshed, and the city is full of perversion; for they say, 'Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh does not see!' [10] "But as for Me, My eye will have no pity, nor will I spare, but I will put their way upon their heads." [11] Then behold, the man clothed in linen at whose loins was the [scribe's] case responded with a word, saying, "I have done just as You have commanded me."