Ezekiel 5:9

9. I will do… that which I have not done “This was no mere rhetorical threat. It is possible that the miseries of the siege and exile were no greater than those endured by other nations in those days, but the same miseries may be felt more acutely.” Davidson. Israel was a “peculiar people” in its advantages and its possibilities. Sinning against light, its guilt was greater, and its former exaltation by the same Hand that struck it down made its fall unique and its degradation full of peculiar misery (Lamentations 1:12; Daniel 9:12). “No other nation had a conscience so sensitive as Israel, or lost so much by its political annihilation.” Skinner.