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Ezekiel 36:18

in Ezekiel 36

So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Wherefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had poured out upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

KJV

Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

This verse in Ezekiel 36

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

For this God poured out his fury upon them, scattered them among the heathen. Their own land was sick of them, and they were sent into other lands. Herein God was righteous, and was justified in what he did; none could say that he did them any wrong, nay, he did justice to his own honour, for he judged them according to their way and according to their doings,

This site's exposition

the word of the LORD came to me

on Ezekiel 36:16-21

The word comes again, turning from land to people and tracing the cause of exile: Israel's defilement, the blood shed, and the idols. Their saying, “These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land”, profaned the name the judgment was meant to vindicate.

This site's exposition

because of the blood they had shed

Blood and idols are the two charges Ezekiel lays against Jerusalem throughout, set side by side at 22:3 to 4. Numbers 35:33 taught that bloodshed pollutes a land. Wrath poured out pictures a full cup emptied.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 16 and following) And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, the house of Israel have dwelt (or dwells) in their own land, and they have defiled it with their ways and their idols: according to the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity, their way has become before me.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Wherefore I poured my fury on them,....

The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וָאֶשְׁפֹּ֤ךְand I poured out

    vaeshpokhH8210 →114 times

  • חֲמָתִי֙rage my

    chamatiH2534 →125 times

  • עֲלֵיהֶ֔םon them

    ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַדָּ֖םthe blood

    hadamH1818 →360 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • שָׁפְכ֣וּthey had poured out

    shafekhuH8210 →114 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖םand by idols their

    uvegiluleihemH1544 →48 times

  • טִמְּאֽוּהָ׃they made unclean it

    timeuhaH2930 →162 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Lamentations 4:11

    The 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 7:8

    Very 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

    • Isaiah 42:25

      So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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?”

    • 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 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…

  • Through

    Lamentations 2:4

    He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire…

    it leads to

    • Job 6:4

      For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 21:31

    I will pour out My anger upon you; I will breathe the fire of My fury against you; I will hand you over to brutal men, skilled in destruction.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 30:33

      For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.