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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 12:19 - 12:19
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people of the land - the Jews “in the land” of Chaldea who thought themselves miserable as being exiles and envied the Jews left in Jerusalem as fortunate.
land of Israel - contrasted with “the people in the land” of Chaldea. So far from being fortunate as the exiles in Chaldea regarded them, the Jews in Jerusalem are truly miserable, for the worst is before them, whereas the exiles have escaped the miseries of the coming siege.
land ... desolate from all that is therein - literally, “that the land (namely, Judea) may be despoiled of the fullness thereof”; emptied of the inhabitants and abundance of flocks and corn with which it was filled.
because of ... violence - (Psa 107:34).