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Ezekiel 7:16

Ezekiel 7:16

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

They that escape, etc. The sentence is virtually conditional. They that escape shall, it is true, in one sense, escape the immediate doom; but if so, it shall only be to the mountains. These were, in all times, the natural refuge for those who fled from danger, but even this should fail those of whom the prophet speaks.

They should be like the doves of the mountain gorges, that are fluttered at the appearance of the eagle or the fowler, and seem by note (; ) and gesture (), to be mourning forevermore.

There also they shall lie, every man in his iniquity, and wailing for its punishment. We are reminded of Dante's similitudes in 'Inf.,' 5.40, 46, 82.

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