Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.
Study Note
Study Note
The divine declaration 'therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads' concludes Ezekiel's exhaustive catalog of Jerusalem's sins in chapter 22 with the inevitable juridical consequence: judgment in exact proportion to the offense. The phrase 'I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath' employs the consuming-fire theophany imagery of Sinai tradition now directed against the very people God had redeemed at Sinai, indicating a catastrophic reversal of covenantal history. The preceding search for 'a man among them that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap' (22:30) — finding none — reveals that judgment was not precipitous but followed the exhaustion of the mediatorial possibility. The verse has been important in discussions of prophetic intercessory prayer and the concept of the 'hedge' or protective boundary of divine favor.
Other Translations
Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.
And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'
And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.
Cross References
As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and …
Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted …
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore …
But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense …
And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their …
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and …
Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge …
Now is the end come upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according …
Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,