Ezekiel 7:4

4. Mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity Although Jehovah is “merciful and gracious,” there comes a time when he must not spare the guilty (Exodus 34:7). The pity which will not execute a promised and deserved punishment has little regard for the majesty of the law and the possible reformation of the offenders. (See Ezekiel 5:11; Ezekiel 7:9; Ezekiel 8:18; Ezekiel 9:10.) These judgments are redemptive. God’s wrath is the anger of love, and there is a divine compassion in his refusal to avert the just punishment of sin. I will recompense thy ways upon thee, etc. “Sin, when it is full-grown, gendereth death” (James 1:15). Death is the legitimate child of persistent sin. The worst thing that can happen to a man or a nation is to have their evil ways fall upon them and their abominations bring forth their natural fruitage. When a nation which has sown to the wind begins to reap the whirlwind it begins also to think that there may be a God in Israel.