Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 5:6

"And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them." — Ezekiel 5:6 (ASV)

Changed my judgments into wickedness.— Better, has wickedly resisted my judgments, the sense adopted by most modern expositors.

More than the nations. —Not, of course, absolutely, but in proportion to the knowledge and the privileges given them. It would be an exaggeration to say that the Israelites were actually more evil in their life than the surrounding heathen; for they were, no doubt, far better.

Even of those cities which our Lord, at a later day, so strongly upbraided, it would be absurd to suppose that they equaled Sodom and Gomorrah in their iniquity. God’s judgments are always relative and proportioned to the opportunities He has granted to people.

The point is that the Israelites had resisted His judgments more than the heathen; they had sinned against greater light. The pronoun they in the last clause refers, of course, to the Israelites, not to the heathen.