Ezekiel 8:18

18. Mine eye shall not spare See notes Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:4; Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 9:5; Ezekiel 9:10. There comes a time when a cry to God for help is too late (Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 11:11; Proverbs 1:28). The symbolic meaning of this vision of Israel’s sin is apparent. The prophet only visited Jerusalem “in the visions of God” (Ezekiel 8:3). That these various abominable practices were literally taking place in the temple is difficult to believe. This vision may have been given to show to Ezekiel and his countrymen in exile the hopeless condition of the hearts of the whole nation, elders, women, priests. In their hearts they were idolaters, grasping every ancient and modern form of unbelief. Their presence defiled the temple and accounts for Jehovah’s leaving it (Ezekiel 8:6; Leviticus 15:31; Leviticus 20:3; Numbers 19:13; Numbers 19:20).