Ezekiel 6:12 - Exposition

He that is far off, etc. The three forms of judgment named in Ezekiel 6:11 have each their special victims. Pestilence comes chiefly on those who are outside the city, exposed to the weather changes and the taint of unburied corpses ( Ezekiel 6:5 ); the sword of the Chaldeans on those who venture on a sally, or try to escape from the city; famine presses heaviest on those who are besieged within it. None can escape the judgment. The word besieged is the same as in Isaiah 1:8 ; but it may have the sense, as in Isaiah 49:6 , of "kept," or "preserved," for the worst evil of the three.