Ezekiel 6 · John Wesley
Bereave thee - Of your children, friends, and your own life. Pestilence and blood - Thy land shall be the common road for pestilence and blood. Tho' this prophecy was to be accomplished presently, in the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans; yet it may well be supposed to look forward, to the final destruction of it by the Romans, when God made a full end of the Jewish nation, and caused his fury to rest upon them.
The mountains - The inhabitants of the mountains, who were secure in their fastnesses.
Rivers - To those who dwell by river sides, or in the valleys. High places - The places of your idolatrous worship.
Cast down - Before the altars of your idols, which you fly to for refuge.
And - Thus the idols were upbraided with their inability to help their worshippers, and the idolaters, with the folly of trusting in them.
Your works - All your costly work for your idols.
Remnant - It is the Lord that preserves a remnant, the enemies rage would destroy all.
Shall remember - So as to turn unto me. Broken - I am much grieved. Whorish heart - Idolatrous hearts depart from God, as an adulterous wife departs from her husband. Loath - With a mixture of grief towards God, of indignation against themselves, and abhorrence of the offence.
In vain - Either without cause, the sufferers gave him just cause to pronounce that evil; or without effect. Their sins where the cause, and their destruction is the effect of their sufferings.
Smite - To shew thy wonder, indignation, sorrow, and pity, for their sins and sufferings.
Far off - Either by flight, or captivity. Shall fall - Who dwell near to Jerusalem, or would retire to it, when the Babylonians approach.