Ezekiel 16:49

Ezekiel 16:49 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
• New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Context of Ezekiel 16:49

47Yet you have not merely walked in their ways and committed their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you also acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done! Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, plenty of food, and carefree ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. 50So they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it. 51Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. So you have made your sisters appear innocent by all your abominations which you have committed.

Ezekiel 16:49 word by word

הִנֵּה־זֶ֣ה הָיָ֔ה עֲוֹ֖ן סְדֹ֣ם אֲחוֹתֵ֑ךְ גָּא֨וֹן שִׂבְעַת־לֶ֜חֶם וְשַׁלְוַ֣ת הַשְׁקֵ֗ט הָ֤יָה לָהּ֙ וְלִבְנוֹתֶ֔יהָ וְיַד־עָנִ֥י וְאֶבְי֖וֹן לֹ֥א הֶחֱזִֽיקָה׃Read the interlinear

• Beholdהִנֵּהhinnêh · beholdH2009
• thisזֶהzeh · thisH2088
• was the guiltעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: guiltH5771
• of your sisterאָחוֹת'âchôth · sisterH269
• Sodomסְדֹםsedôm · SodomH5467
• she and her daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• hadהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• plentyשׇׂבְעָהώob‛âh · satietyH7654
• of foodלֶ֫חֶםlechem · foodH3899
• carefreeשָׁקַטshâqaţ · to quietH8252
• easeשַׁלְוָהshalvâh · easeH7962
• helpחָזַקchâzaq · to strengthen: strengthenH2388
• helpיָדyâd · hand: toH3027
• poorעָנִי‛ânîy · afflictedH6041
• and needyאֶבְיוֹן'ebyôn · needyH34

Cross-references for Ezekiel 16:49

• Ezekiel 28:2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘The Lord God says this: “Because your heart is haughty And you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas’; Yet you are a mortal and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--
• Ezekiel 29:3Speak and say, ‘This is what the Lord God says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, The great monster that lies in the midst of his canals, That has said, ‘My Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.’
• Genesis 19:9But they said, “Get out of the way!” They also said, “This one came in as a foreigner, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them!” So they pressed hard against Lot and moved forward to break the door.
• Psalms 138:6For the Lord is exalted, Yet He looks after the lowly, But He knows the haughty from afar.
• Proverbs 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; Be assured, he will not go unpunished.
• Proverbs 18:12Before destruction the heart of a person is haughty, But humility goes before honor.
• Proverbs 21:4Haughty eyes and a proud heart, The lamp of the wicked, is sin.
• Isaiah 3:9The expression of their faces testifies against them, And they display their sin like Sodom; They do not even conceal it. Woe to them! For they have done evil to themselves.
• Isaiah 16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false.
• Daniel 4:30The king began speaking and was saying, ‘Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?’
• Daniel 5:23but you have risen up against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your nobles, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine out of them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see, nor hear, nor understand. But the God in whose hand are your life-breath and all your ways, you have not glorified.
• Obadiah 1:3The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, The one who lives in the clefts of the rock, On the height of his dwelling place, Who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to earth?’
• 1 Peter 5:5You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God is opposed to the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
• Genesis 13:10Lot raised his eyes and saw all the vicinity of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere--this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah--like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt going toward Zoar.
• Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.
• Deuteronomy 32:15“But Jeshurun became fat and kicked-- You have become fat, thick, and obstinate-- Then he abandoned God who made him, And rejected the Rock of his salvation.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 16:49

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 49This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom - If we are to take this place literally, Sodom was guilty of other crimes besides that for which she appears to have been especially punished; in addition to her unnatural crime, She is charged with pride, luxury, idleness, and uncharitableness; and these were sufficient to sink any city to the bottomless pit.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 46-50Samaria, Jerusalem’s older (or larger) sister, engaged in improper worship since Jeroboam introduced golden calves at the national shrines in Dan and Bethel (1 Kings 12:28–33). Sodom, Jerusalem’s younger (or smaller) sister, became known for sexual sin (Genesis 19:4–9) and for pride, gluttony, laziness, and neglect of the poor and needy.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4949. pride--inherited by Moab, her offspring (Is 16:6; Jr 48:26), and by Ammon (Jr 49:4). God, the heart-searcher, here specifies as Sodom's sin, not merely her notorious lusts, but the secret spring of them, "pride" flowing from "fullness of bread," caused by the fertility of the soil (Ge 13:10), and producing "idleness." abundance of idleness--literally, "the secure carelessness of ease" or idleness. neither did she strengthen ... the poor--Pride is…Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 16:49

• Idleness
• Lasciviousness
• Poor
• Sin
• Sodom

In the dictionaries

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• Abound; Abundance; Abundant; Abundantly

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