Ezekiel 16:23
And it has come to pass according to all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! says lord LORD),
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
In Context
24that thou have built thyself a vaulted place, and have made thee a lofty place in every street.
Cross References
Ezekiel 2:10And he spread it before me, and it was written inside and outside. And there were written in it lamentations and mourning and woe.
Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows, and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, to the oppressing city!
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.
Revelation 12:12Rejoice because of this, O heavens, and ye who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has little time.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:16-35
Ingratitude of Israel; Shameful Idolatry of Israel. ( b. c. 593.) 15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest… Read the whole commentary →