John Calvin Commentary Ezekiel 7:8

"Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon thee, and accomplish mine anger against thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways; and I will bring upon thee all thine abominations." — Ezekiel 7:8 (ASV)

He repeats here almost the same words. We have explained the intention: namely, that the Israelites should be positively assured that God did not threaten for the sake of frightening them, but because the execution of His wrath was prepared.

Now, He says, I will shortly pour out My indignation. He had said the day was near. This refers to the time, for it would be foolish to place together I will shortly pour out My indignation, against thee, and I will fulfill My indignation against thee; this fulfilling explains what He had formerly said concerning the end.

For God had formerly executed His vengeance against the Israelites, but not completely. This completion, then, of God’s wrath prevails even as far as their ultimate destruction. Now I have explained those words: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and I will put upon thee all thine abominations.

Prayer:

Grant, Almighty God, that we, being admonished by such remarkable proofs of Your wrath, may learn to walk circumspectly in Your sight, and so bring ourselves into voluntary obedience to You, that the certain testimony of our gratuitous adoption may appear in our lives; and grant that we may so prove ourselves to be sons, that we may truly invoke You as Father, until we arrive at that blessed inheritance which has been obtained for us by the blood of Your only-begotten Son. Amen.