Ezekiel 16
1 Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shewn the natural state of Jerusalem.
6 God's extraordinary love towards her.
15 Her monstrous whoredom.
35 Her grievous judgment.
44 Her sin, equal to her mother, and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, calls for judgments.
60 Mercy is promised her in the end.
Jerusalem <03389> [cause.]
abominable practices <08441> [abominations.]
origin <04351> [Thy birth. Heb. Thy cutting out, or habitation.]
Amorite <0567> [Amorite.]
Hittite <02850> [Hittite.]
birth <04138> [for.]
rubbed down ... salt <04935 04414> [to supple thee. or, when I looked upon thee. nor.]
eye <05869> [eye.]
thrown out <07993> [but thou.]
saw <07200> [and saw.]
kicking around helplessly <0947> [polluted. or, trodden under foot.]
Live ............. Live <02421> [Live.]
made <05414> [caused, etc. Heb. made thee a million.]
jewelry <05716> [excellent ornaments. Heb. ornament of ornaments.]
naked <05903> [whereas.]
noticing that <06256> [thy time.]
spread <06566> [and I.]
solemn <07650> [I sware.]
bathed ..... washed <07364 07857> [washed.]
blood <01818> [blood. Heb. bloods.]
fragrant <05480> [anointed.]
dressed <03847> [clothed.]
embroidered clothing <07553> [broidered.]
fine leather <08476> [badgers' skin.]
wrapped <02280> [I girded.]
covered <03680> [covered.]
put <05414> [I put.]
necklace <07242> [a chain.]
[forehead. Heb. nose.]
[ear-rings.]
necklace <07242> [and a.]
ate .............. attained the position <0398 06743> [thou didst.]
extremely <03966> [and thou wast.]
attained the position <06743> [and thou didst.]
fame <08034> [thy renown.]
splendor <01926> [through.]
trusted <0982> [thou didst.]
prostitute <02181> [and playedst.]
fame <08034> [because.]
Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.
capitalized <08210> [and pouredst.]
took <03947> [hast also.]
male <02145> [men. Heb. a male. and didst.]
This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.
food <03899> [meat.]
soothing aroma <07381 05207> [a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.]
sons <01121> [thy sons.]
sacrificed <02076> [and these.]
eat <0398> [be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.]
children <01121> [my children.]
sacrificed <05674> [to pass.]
Woe Woe <0188> [woe.]
built <01129> [thou hast.]
chamber <01354> [eminent place. or, brothel house. and hast.]
head <07218> [at every.]
beauty <03308> [and hast made.]
Egyptians <01121> [with the.]
stretched <05186> [I have.]
cut off <01639> [and have.]
rations <02706> [thine.]
{Chukkach,} "thy portion;" the household provision of a wife--food, clothes, and money.
delivered <05414> [delivered.]
The Jews, under Manasseh, and the succeeding kings of Judah, made the temple itself the scene of their open and abominable idolatries, in addition to all their idol temples! which appears to be meant by "the eminent place," and "highplaces in every street," ver. 24. Allured by the prosperity of the Egyptians, they also connected themselves with them, and joined in their multiplied and abominable idolatries. And when Jehovah punished them by wars and famines, and by the Philistines, whose daughters are represented as ashamed of their enormous idolatries, instead of being amended, they formed alliances with the Assyrians, and worshipped their gods: and they even followed every idol which was worshipped between Canaan and Chaldea.
daughters <01323> [daughters. or, cities.]
ashamed <03637> [which.]
land <0776> [in the land.]
Babylonia <03778> [unto.]
sick <0535> [weak.]
deeds <04639> [the work.]
built ... chamber <01129 01354> [In that thou buildest thine. or, In thy daughters is thine, etc.]
<06213> [makest.]
scoffed <07046> [in that thou scornest.]
receive ...... give <05414> [give.]
receive ...... give <05414> [but thou.]
bribe <07809> [hirest. Heb. bribest.]
prostitute <02181> [O harlot.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
lust <05178> [Because.]
nakedness <06172> [and thy.]
blood <01818> [and by.]
adulteress <05003> [as women. Heb. with judgments of women, etc.]
murderer <08210> [shed.]
give <05414> [And I.]
For the enormous idolatries and cruelties of Judah and Jerusalem, Jehovah determined to gather together the surrounding nations, both those with whom they had formed alliances, as the Egyptians and Assyrians, and such as had always been inimical to them, as Edom, Ammon, Moab, and Philistia, to inflict, or to witness, his judgments upon them. Having exposed their enormous crimes to view, He would pass sentence upon them: He would give Jerusalem into the hands of the Chaldeans, who would destroy the city and temple which they had polluted; level their cities and high places with the ground; slay, plunder, and enslave the people.
destroy <02040> [they shall throw.]
strip <06584> [shall strip.]
beautiful jewelry <08597 03627> [thy fair jewels. Heb. instruments of thine ornament.]
summon <05927> [shall also.]
hack .... pieces <01333> [and thrust.]
burn down <08313> [burn.]
execute <06213> [and execute.]
Thus I will put ... stop <07673> [and I.]
rage <02534> [will I.]
angry <03707> [and will.]
remember <02142> [thou hast.]
enraged <07264> [but hast.]
repay <05414> [I also.]
proverbs ... quote ...... Like <04911> [every.]
mother <0517> [As is.]
[that loatheth.]
mother ......................... mother <0517> [your mother.]
older <01419> [elder.]
sister .............. younger sister <0269 06996> [thy younger sister. Heb. thy sister lesser than thou.]
daughters ............... daughters <01323> [her daughters.]
short ...... more <04592 06985> [as if that were a very little thing. or, that was loathed as a small thing.]
depraved <07843> [thou wast.]
majesty <01347> [pride.]
abundance <07653> [fulness.]
ease <02388> [neither.]
practiced <06213> [and committed.]
removed <05493> [therefore.]
Samaria <08111> [Samaria.]
righteous <06663> [justified.]
<06419> [which hast.]
bear ... disgrace .................................. So ...... bear ... disgrace <05375 03639> [bear thine.]
justify ............. than .......................... righteous <06663> [they are more.]
restore ... fortunes ... fortunes ......... fortunes .......... fortunes <07725 07622> [bring.]
among <08432> [in the midst.]
bear <05375> [thou mayest.]
consoling <05162> [in that.]
daughters ............ daughters ............. daughters <01323> [then.]
byword <08052> [was not.]
byword <08052> [mentioned. Heb. for a report, or a hearing. pride. Heb. prides, or excellencies.]
evil <07451> [thy wickedness.]
scorn <02781> [reproach.]
Aram <0758> [Syria. Heb. Aram.]
daughters ............ daughters <01323> [the daughters.]
despise <07590> [despise. or, spoil.]
bear <05375> [hast.]
bear <05375> [borne. Heb. borne them.]
deal ......... done <06213> [I will.]
despised <0959> [which.]
remember <02142> [I will remember.]
establish <06965> [I will establish.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
receive <03947> [when.]
give <05414> [I will.]
covenant <01285> [but not.]
establish <06965> [I will.]
know <03045> [and thou.]
remember <02142> [remember.]
silent <06610> [and never.]
atonement <03722> [when.]
