Ezekiel 5:13
in Ezekiel 5And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
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ASV
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted: and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
KJV
Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest upon them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the Lord have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
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This verse in Ezekiel 5
Commentary
11 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Comforted - In the sense of “consoling oneself” and “feeling satisfaction in punishing;” hence, to “avenge oneself.” The fury is to “rest” upon them, abide, so as not to pass away. The “accomplishment” of the divine anger is not the “completion” in the sense of bringing it to a close, but in the sense of carrying it out to the full.
This site's exposition
as surely as I live
on Ezekiel 5:11-13
The Lord swears “as surely as I live” and names the cause: “you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations.” The thirds of the hair in Ezekiel 5:2 are explained as plague and famine within, the sword “outside your walls,” and scattering “to every wind.”
This site's exposition
I will be appeased
The Lord's anger will be spent in full on the city. Albert Barnes reads the word appeased as the satisfaction of justice carried out, with wrath that rests on them and stays. Then they will know that the Lord spoke in His zeal.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 12, 13.) A third part of you will die by pestilence and be consumed by famine in your midst, and a third part will fall by the sword all around you. I will scatter your third part to every wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. And I will pour out my fury and make my anger rest upon them, and I will comfort myself. And they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my anger upon them.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Commentary on Chapter V 1. Take - Thus foretel the mourning, reproach, and deformity that are coming, for all this is signified by shaving the head and beard. A third part - Described on the tile, chap. iv, 1, a type of what should be done in Jerusalem.
He was so much concerned about it as to take what was done to it as done to himself, so far was he from desiring the woeful day. He must shave off the hair of his head and beard (
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Thus shall mine anger be accomplished,....
The struggle between mercy and judgment is over, and in this case judgment triumphs, triumphs indeed; for mercy that has been so long abused is now silent and gives up the cause, has not a word more to say on the behalf of such an ungrateful incorrigible people: My eye shall not spare, neither will I have any pity,
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Though this prophecy was to have its accomplishment now quickly, in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, yet the executioners not being named here, but the criminal only ( this is Jerusalem ), we may well suppose that it looks further, to the final destruction of that great city by the Romans when God made a full end of the Jewish nation, and caused his fury to rest upon them.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
cause my fury to rest upon them--as on its proper and permanent resting-place (Isa 30:32, Margin). I will be comforted--expressed in condescension to man's conceptions; signifying His satisfaction in the vindication of His justice by His righteous judgments (De 28:63;
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I will cause my fury to rest - My displeasure, and the evidences of it, shall not be transient; they shall be permanent upon you, and among you. And is not this dreadfully true to the present day?
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
and I shall cause My fury against them to subside When I avenge Myself against them, My fury will subside, and My spirit will not oppress Me.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
15 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכָלָ֣ה | vekhalah | and it will be spent | H3615 → | 208 times |
| אַפִּ֗י | ʾapi | anger my | H639 → | 276 times |
| וַהֲנִחוֹתִ֧י | vahanichoti | and I will give rest to | H5117 → | 142 times |
| חֲמָתִ֛י | chamati | rage my | H2534 → | 125 times |
| בָּ֖ם | bam | on them | ||
| וְהִנֶּחָ֑מְתִּי | vehinechameti | and I will gain relief | H5162 → | 108 times |
| וְֽיָדְע֞וּ | veyadeu | and they will know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֣י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָ֗ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| דִּבַּ֙רְתִּי֙ | dibarti | I have spoken | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| בְּקִנְאָתִ֔י | bekinati | in jealousy my | H7068 → | 43 times |
| בְּכַלּוֹתִ֥י | bekhaloti | when complete I | H3615 → | 208 times |
| חֲמָתִ֖י | chamati | rage my | H2534 → | 125 times |
| בָּֽם׃ | bam | on them |
וְכָלָ֣הand it will be spent
vekhalahH3615 →208 times
אַפִּ֗יanger my
ʾapiH639 →276 times
וַהֲנִחוֹתִ֧יand I will give rest to
vahanichotiH5117 →142 times
חֲמָתִ֛יrage my
chamatiH2534 →125 times
בָּ֖םon them
bam
וְהִנֶּחָ֑מְתִּיand I will gain relief
vehinechametiH5162 →108 times
וְֽיָדְע֞וּand they will know
veyadeuH3045 →945 times
כִּי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֣יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָ֗הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
דִּבַּ֙רְתִּי֙I have spoken
dibartiH1696 →1141 times
בְּקִנְאָתִ֔יin jealousy my
bekinatiH7068 →43 times
בְּכַלּוֹתִ֥יwhen complete I
bekhalotiH3615 →208 times
חֲמָתִ֖יrage my
chamatiH2534 →125 times
בָּֽם׃on them
bam
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 20:21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:8
But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 20:13
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly…
- Ezekiel 20:8
Through
Ezekiel 7:8Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:21
But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 14:19
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 9:8
While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
- Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Ezekiel 20:21
Through
Lamentations 4:11The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 7:20
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce…
- Ezekiel 22:31
So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Jeremiah 7:20
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.