Ezekiel 22:5 - Exposition

Those that be near , etc. The Hebrew words are both feminine, and refer to the neighboring and distant cities which took up their proverbs of reproach against the city, once holy and faithful, now infamous (Hebrew, defiled in name ) and much vexed . The last words point to another form of punishment. Jerusalem is described as in a state of moral tumult and disorder as the consequence of its guilt (comp. Amos 3:9 ; Deuteronomy 7:23 ; Zechariah 14:13 , where the same word is rendered by "tumults" and "destruction").