24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their offenses, and I hid my face from them.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
24 I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.
24 I treated them as their polluted and sin-sated lives deserved. I turned away from them, refused to look at them.
24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions I have dealt with them, and hidden My face from them." '
24 I turned my face away and punished them because of their defilement and their sins.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 39:24
Commentary on Ezekiel 39:23-29
(Read Ezekiel 39:23-29)
When the Lord shall have mercy on the whole house of Israel, by converting them to Christianity, and when they shall have borne the shame of being cast off for their sins, then the nations shall learn to know, worship, and serve him. Then Israel also shall know the Lord, as revealed in and by Christ. Past events do not answer to these predictions. The pouring out of the Spirit is a pledge that God's favour will continue. He will hide his face no more from those on whom he has poured out his Spirit. When we pray that God would never cast us from his presence, we must as earnestly pray that, in order thereto, he would never take his Holy Spirit from us.