Ézéchiel 6:14

Louis Segond

J'étendrai ma main contre eux, Et je rendrai le pays plus solitaire et plus désolé Que le désert de Dibla, Partout où ils habitent. Et ils sauront que je suis l'Eternel.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
J'�tendrai donc ma main sur eux, et je rendrai leur pays d�sol� et d�sert dans toutes leurs demeures, plus que le d�sert qui est vers Dibla; et ils sauront que je suis l'Eternel.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
J'�tendrai donc ma main sur eux, et partout o� ils habitent, je rendrai le pays plus d�sol� et plus d�vast� que le d�sert de Dibla, et ils sauront que je suis l'�ternel.

Darby's French Translation
Et j'�tendrai ma main sur eux, et je ferai du pays une d�solation et il sera plus d�sol� que le d�sert de Dibla, dans toutes leurs demeures; et ils sauront que je suis l'�ternel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will I: Ezekiel 16:27, Ezekiel 20:33, Ezekiel 20:34, Isaiah 5:25, Isaiah 9:12, Isaiah 9:17, Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 10:4, Isaiah 26:11

more desolate than the wilderness: or, desolate from the wilderness

Diblath: Numbers 33:46, Almon-diblathaim, Jeremiah 48:22, Beth-diblathaim, Diblath was a city of Moab and appears from parallel passages to have been situated between Dibon and Abarim or Nebo.

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 20:28 - ye shall know Isaiah 14:17 - made Jeremiah 4:27 - The Jeremiah 18:16 - make Ezekiel 7:4 - and ye Ezekiel 12:15 - General Ezekiel 12:19 - that her Ezekiel 15:8 - I will Ezekiel 33:28 - I will lay Ezekiel 35:3 - and I will stretch Ezekiel 36:4 - desolate Ezekiel 36:34 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So will I stretch out mine hand upon them,.... Not unto them, in a way of mercy; but upon, or against them, in a way of judgment. The Targum paraphrases it,

"and I will lift up the stroke of my power upon them;''

his mighty hand of vengeance:

and make the land desolate; by destroying the inhabitants of it:

yea, more desolate than the wilderness towards Diblath, in all their habitations; so the Syriac version renders it, "and I will make this land more desolate than the land of Diblath"; but other versions, "I will make the land desolate from the wilderness of Diblath"; to which the Targum agrees; or, "from the wilderness to Diblath": Kimchi and Ben Melech think this is the same with Riblath; as Deuel is put for Reuel in Numbers 1:14; which was in the land of Hamath, and which, Jerom says, was in his times called Epiphania in Syria; here it was that Nebuchadnezzar brought Zedekiah, and slew his sons before him,

Jeremiah 39:5; this, though in Hamath in Syria, was on the borders of the land of Israel, Numbers 34:8; so that "hence from the desert of Diblath", as the Arabic version renders it, "even to Jerusalem", as may be supplied, takes in the whole land, and shows that it should be utterly desolate. There is a Bethdiblathaim mentioned in Jeremiah 48:22; as in Moab; and there is also Almondiblathaim, which was one of the stations of the Israelites; and seems to be in Moab, or on its borders,

Numbers 33:46; and appears, by the places named with it, to be the same as that in Jeremiah; and so was part of that terrible wilderness through which the Israelites passed; and to which the desolation of the land of Israel by the Chaldeans is compared; and which serves to confirm our version, which makes the desolation to be greater than that:

and they shall know that I [am] the Lord; the true God; the one and only Lord God; who never changes his purposes; fulfils his promises and threatenings; and there is no escaping his mighty hand.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The gleam of hope is but transitory. Darkness again gathers round, for as yet the prophet is predicting judgment.

Ezekiel 6:11

Smite ... stamp - Well-known modes of expressing grief.

Ezekiel 6:13

Sweet savor - Compare Genesis 8:21. Words, applied to the smell of sacrifices accepted by God, applied here to idol-sacrifices in irony.

Ezekiel 6:14

Toward Diblath - Or, “Diblathaim,” the “Diblathan” of the Moabite stone, one of the double cities of Moab (see Ezekiel 25:9) to the east of which lay the great desert of Arabia. Some read: “unto Riblah” Jeremiah 52:9 and take the margin rendering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 6:14. And make the land-more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath — Diblath or Diblathayim is situated in the land of Moab. It is mentioned Numbers 33:46, Almon-Diblathaim; and in Jeremiah 48:22, Beth-Diblathaim. It was a part of that horrible wilderness mentioned by Moses, Deuteronomy 8:15, "wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought." The precise reason why it is mentioned here is not very evident. Some think it is the same as Riblah, where Nebuchadnezzar slew the princes of Israel, and put out Zedekiah's eyes; the principal difference lying between the ד daleth and the ר resh, which in MSS. is often scarcely discernible; and hence vast multitudes of various readings. Five, probably six, of Kennicott's MSS. have רבלתה riblathah, as likewise two of my oldest MSS.; though in the margin of one a later hand directs the word to be read בדלת bedaleth, with daleth. But all the Versions read the word with a D. This may appear a matter of little importance, but we should take pains to recover even one lost letter of the word of God.