Ezekiel 39:26

Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made [them] afraid.

Ver. 26. After that they have borne their shame.] Are become soundly ashamed of their sinful practices: Hoc enim ingenium est verae fidei, saith Oecolampadius, for this is the nature of true faith, to blush and bleed for sins past.

When they dwelt safely in their land.] And so settled on their lease through carnal security.

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After that they have borne their shame--the punishment of their sin: after they have become sensible of their guilt, and ashamed of it (Eze 20:43; Eze 36:31).

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Verse 26. After that they have borne their shame] After they shall have borne the punishment due to a line of conduct which is their shame and reproach, viz. idolatry.

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26. after that … borne] Rather: And they shall bear their shame. The phrase “bear shame” is not used in the sense of bearing the outward disgrace (Eze_32:24-25; Eze_32:30, Eze_34:29, Eze_36:7), but in the sense of bearing the inward feeling of unworthiness, which the undeserved goodness of Jehovah creates (Eze_16:52; Eze_16:54). The word “bear” is written defectively and by a change of a “tittle” might mean “forget.” While “forget their shame” however might well be said, shame meaning reproach (Isa_54:4), “forget their trespasses,” implying complete obliteration of the unhappy past, is so powerful an idea that it causes surprise. Either idea is beautiful; whether the idea be that the redeemed people sit in abashed gladness, the memory of former evil adding depth to the gladness, or whether it be that the assurance that Jehovah is their God (Eze_39:22) is so exalted that the memory of former sad days is wholly wiped out by it.

when they dwelt … afraid] when they dwell with confidence … and none maketh them afraid. Reference is to the time of restoration.

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After that they have borne their shame,.... And disgrace, among the nations where they are scattered; being captives, exiles, in distress and affliction, and under the manifest tokens of the divine wrath and vengeance: it may be rendered, "and they shall bear their shame" (m); that is, as Jarchi glosses it,

"when I shall do good to them, and not render to them according to their wickedness, then they shall bear their shame, and be confounded, and not able to lift up their face;''

as penitent persons, under a sense of divine wrath, blush, and are ashamed to look up to God; see Ezr 9:6. Menachem interprets the word in the sense of atonement and forgiveness, as it is used in Psa 32:11, as if the meaning was, then they shall have their sins, which caused shame, forgiven them. Kimchi's gloss is,

"they shall carry in their mouths, and make mention of their shame they had in captivity.''

And all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against me; that is, the punishment of all their trespasses in their captivity, or the shame of them, being now brought to repentance; and which will be aggravated to them, when they remember that these were committed by their forefathers, and since approved of by them.

When they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid; as they did in the times of Christ; they were in entire peace, and no enemy disturbed them; and were in the possession of their own land, and enjoyed the blessings of it, and had their religious as well as civil liberties; and yet rejected the Messiah, his doctrine, ordinances, and salvation by him.

(m) "et portabunt", Pagninus, Montanus, V. L. Grotius; "et ferent ignominiam suam", Starckius.

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After they have long suffered, and now shall suffer no longer; for it is enough my people know, and the heathen know, that I am the Lord.

Borne their shame; reproach for their sins cast on them by the heathen, with great reflections on their God: this was part of the punishment of them all, and the greatest grief to the best among them, that their God was reproached.

Their trespasses; the punishment of those trespasses whereby they sinned against God, which this prophet plainly and frequently chargeth them with.

When they dwelt safely; and this done amidst that prosperity and safety which should have obliged them to love and obedience; but when they were safe at home, they sinned as if danger would never overtake them.

None made them afraid; no enemy to endanger and alarm them. Strange ingratitude, to east off the fear of God, and his law, when he had set them free from the fear of enemies!

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26. After that they have borne their shame — Rather, with R.V., “And they shall bear their shame,” in the rare sense of being ashamed because of their unworthiness of God’s great mercies (Eze_16:54; Eze_16:61), or, with a very slight change of text, “they shall forget their shame” (Hitzig; compare Isa_54:4), which gives a sense peculiarly appropriate here.

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After they have borne their shame. (comp. Eze_16:52, 54 32:24, 30 34:29 36:6) The captivity of Israel would not be brought back until her people had been thoroughly chastised for their iniquities, and that chastisement had wrought in them a spirit of penitence and a disposition towards obedience. Then should Jehovah interpose for their deliver-ante by gathering them out of their enemies" lands and leading them back to their own land; and these two experiences, the Captivity and the Restoration, the driving out and the bringing in, should complete their conversion to Jehovah, and secure their perpetual enjoyment of Jehovah"s favor.

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Their shame - Reproach for their sins.

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And they shall bear their disgrace When I do good to them and I do not recompense them according to their evil, they will bear the disgrace and be ashamed to lift up their faces. Menahem, however, explained וְנָשּׂוּי like (Ps. 32:1): “Praiseworthy is he whose transgression is forgiven (נְשּׂוּי),” an expression of atonement.

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