Ezekiel 16:23

Ezekiel 16:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,
• English Standard Version (ESV)"And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God—

Context of Ezekiel 16:23

21that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them? 22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast weltering in thy blood. And it is come to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah), 24that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street. 25Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

Ezekiel 16:23 word by word

וַיְהִ֕י אַחֲרֵ֖י כָּל־רָעָתֵ֑ךְ א֣וֹי א֣וֹי לָ֔ךְ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃Read the interlinear

• wickednessרָעָהra‛ râ‛âh · distress: evilH7451
• woeאוֹי'ôy · woe!H188
• Lordאֲדֹנָי'ădônây · LordH136

Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:23

• Ezekiel 2:10and he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
• Ezekiel 13:3Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!
• Ezekiel 24:6Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.
• Jeremiah 13:27I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
• Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
• Matthew 11:21Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
• Revelation 8:13And I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe, woe, woe, for them that dwell on the earth, by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, who are yet to sound.
• Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16:23

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23After all … - Besides these things, there was the introduction of other idolatrous rites from the nations with whom Israel had contact.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-25The prophets often described idolatry (worshiping false gods) as adultery (being unfaithful in marriage). For example, Hosea uses this picture to explain Israel’s sin (see Hosea 2). This comparison helped people understand that turning away from the Lord was like breaking a marriage promise. Ezekiel, however, gives much more detail than the other prophets. He does not describe Jerusalem as only confused or mistaken. He describes her as deeply corrupt. Her…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. woe, woe unto thee, &c.--This parenthetical exclamation has an awful effect coming like a lightning flash of judgment amidst the black clouds of Israel's guilt.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Ezekiel 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings