Ezekiel 39:24
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
According to their uncleanness,.... Not ceremonial, but moral; they were an impure and adulterous generation, as our Lord calls them, Matthew 12:39:
and according to their transgressions have I done unto them; or "rebellions", as the Targum renders it; or defections, as the word {k} signifies; their rebellions against the King Messiah; their defections from him; their contempt of him, and rejection of his yoke, and non-submission to his ordinances; according to the desert of such crimes, the Lord dealt with them;
"took vengeance on them,''
as the Targum is; in the destruction of their nation, city, and temple: "and hid my face from them"; or caused his Shechaniah to remove from them, as the same paraphrase; See Gill on "Ezekiel 39:23".
{k} Mhyevpk "secundum defectiones eorum", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Starckius; "pro defectionibus ipsorum", Cocceius.