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Ezekiel 34:26

The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 34:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Round about my hill. Ezekiel's thoughts, like those of and , cluster round the hill of Zion, the mountain of Jehovah, as the center of the restored Israel. In that land, as the prophet saw it here, and still more in the closing vision of his book (), there were, outwardly as well as spiritually, to be showers of blessing (the phrase is peculiar to Ezekiel), and the land should yield its fruits.

When I have broken the bands of their yoke. The underlying meaning of the figurative language of is now utterly explained. Israel is to be delivered from its Chaldean and other oppressors. The "yoke shall be broken." They shall no more be a prey to the heathen. None shall make them afraid.

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