The gleam of hope is fleeting. Darkne gathers around again, for the prophet is still predicting judgment.

Ezekiel 6:11: Smite…

Upon every high hill. —The various localities especially selected for idolatrous rites are enumerated one after another, …

Now he again announces that they will know what they have long neglected. But here a different knowledge from the former seems to be indicated; for…

Then shall you know that I [am] the Lord Whom they had denied, by serving other gods; but now by those punishments their …

It is our duty to be affected not only by our own sins and sufferings, but to look with compassion upon the miseries wicked people bring upon thems…