Ezekiel 16:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In Context
2“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:21How has the faithful city, full of judgment, become a harlot? Justice lived in her, but now murderers.
Jeremiah 30:15Why do you cry out over your affliction? Your pain is incurable. I have done these things to you because of the multitude of your iniquity and because of your hardened sins.
Ezekiel 22:2“And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?
Hosea 1:2The beginning of the Lord’s conversation with Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take to yourself a wife of fornications, and make for yourself sons of fornications, because, by fornicating, the land will fornicate away from the Lord.”
Amos 2:4Thus says the Lord: For three wicked deeds of Judah, and for four, I will not convert him, in so far as he has rejected the law of the Lord and has not kept his commandments. For their idols, which their fathers followed, have deceived them.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 16:1
Still God is justifying himself in the desolations he is about to bring upon Jerusalem; and very largely, in this chapter, he shows the prophet, and orders him to show the people, that he did but punish them as their sins deserved. In the foregoing chapter he had compared Jerusalem to an unfruitful vine, that was fit for nothing but the fire; in this chapter he compares it to an adulteress, that, in justice, ought to be abandoned and exposed, and he must therefore show the people their abominations, that they… Read the whole commentary →