New American Standard Bible 1995
Ezekiel 16:16-29
16You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, 1which should never come about nor happen. 17You also took your beautiful 23jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. 18Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19Also 4My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 5you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God. 20“Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to 6Me and 7sacrificed them to 8idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21You slaughtered 9My children and offered them up to 10idols by 11causing them to pass through the fire. 22Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of 12your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.
23“Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord God), 24that you built yourself a 13shrine and made yourself a 14high place in every square. 25You built yourself a high place at the top of 15every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry. 26You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your 16lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to 17make Me angry. 27Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the 18daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct. 28Moreover, you played the harlot with the 19Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”
Notes
- 1. Ezekiel 16:16 Lit things which had not happened nor will it be ↩
- 2. Ezekiel 16:17 Lit articles of beauty ↩
- 3. Ezekiel 16:17 Ezek 16:11, 12 ↩
- 4. Ezekiel 16:19 Hos 2:8 ↩
- 5. Ezekiel 16:19 Lit and you...offer it ↩
- 6. Ezekiel 16:20 Ex 13:2, 12; Deut 29:11, 12 ↩
- 7. Ezekiel 16:20 Ps 106:37, 38; Jer 7:31; Ezek 20:31; 23:37 ↩
- 8. Ezekiel 16:20 Lit them ↩
- 9. Ezekiel 16:21 Ex 13:2 ↩
- 10. Ezekiel 16:21 Lit them ↩
- 11. Ezekiel 16:21 2 Kin 17:17; Jer 19:5 ↩
- 12. Ezekiel 16:22 Jer 2:2 ↩
- 13. Ezekiel 16:24 Jer 11:13; Ezek 16:31, 39; 20:28, 29 ↩
- 14. Ezekiel 16:24 Ps 78:58; Is 57:7 ↩
- 15. Ezekiel 16:25 Prov 9:14 ↩
- 16. Ezekiel 16:26 Lit great of flesh ↩
- 17. Ezekiel 16:26 Jer 7:18, 19; Ezek 8:17 ↩
- 18. Ezekiel 16:27 Is 9:12; Ezek 16:57 ↩
- 19. Ezekiel 16:28 2 Kin 16:7, 10-18; 2 Chr 28:16, 20-23; Jer 2:18, 36; Ezek 23:12; Hos 10:6 ↩
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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