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Ezekiel 16:23
23Terrible trouble will come to you! That is what the Almighty Lord says. You did even more wicked things than these.
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
21But you did an even worse thing. You killed my children. You offered them as sacrifices to idols! 22You forgot what you were like when I first found you. At that time you had no clothes to cover your bare body. You lay on the ground in your own blood. You did not remember this. Instead, you chose to do disgusting things and live as a prostitute. Terrible trouble will come to you! That is what the Almighty Lord says. You did even more wicked things than these. 24In the public places of every town you built huts to worship your idols. 25You built these high places at the end of every street. There you made your beauty a disgusting thing. You offered your body to anyone who went past. Everyone knew that you were a prostitute.
Read all of Ezekiel 16Ezekiel 16:23 word by word
וַיְהִ֕י אַחֲרֵ֖י כָּל־רָעָתֵ֑ךְ א֣וֹי א֣וֹי לָ֔ךְ נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥י יְהוִֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:23
- Ezekiel 2:10He opened the scroll so that I could see inside it. I saw words that were written on both sides of the scroll. There were sad funeral songs, and words about great trouble that make you weep.
- Ezekiel 13:3This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to those foolish prophets. They have not seen any vision from me but they tell people their own ideas.
- Ezekiel 24:6This is what the Almighty Lord says: Terrible trouble will come to the city that is full of murderers! It is like a pot that has become dirty. Nobody has tried to clean it. Take out each piece of meat, one by one. No piece is special.
- Jeremiah 13:27People of Jerusalem, you are in terrible trouble! I have seen the disgusting things that you do. You are like a woman who has not been faithful to her husband. Like a prostitute, you look for other gods to serve. You cannot control yourselves, as you do disgusting things on the hills and in the fields. Will you never be clean and pure again?’
- Zephaniah 3:1It will be very bad for the city! It is like something that is dirty. Its people will not obey me. They like to fight weak people. They also like to do bad things.
- Matthew 11:21He said to them, ‘You people in Chorazin, it will be very bad for you! And it will be very bad for you, people in Bethsaida. I have done great and powerful things in your cities. If I had done such great things in Tyre and in Sidon, the people there would have changed how they lived. They would have shown they were sorry for their sins. They would have put on clothes made from goat's hair. They would also have put ashes on their heads.
- Matthew 23:13Jesus spoke to the teachers of God's Law and the Pharisees. ‘It will be very bad for you,’ he said. ‘You are hypocrites! You have stopped people who wanted to go into the kingdom of heaven. It is like you have shut the door so that they cannot go in. Then you yourselves do not even go in.
- Revelation 8:13Then I looked up. I saw an eagle that was flying high in the sky above me. I heard it say with a loud voice, ‘Great trouble! Great trouble! Yes, great trouble is coming to the people who live on the earth! Very bad things will happen when the other three angels make a sound with their trumpets!’
- Revelation 12:12So be happy, everyone who lives in heaven! But terrible trouble will happen to the earth and the sea. The Devil has come down to you now and he is very angry. He knows that he has only a short time to hurt people.’
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
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