Ezekiel 16:30

How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

In Context

29So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied!

31But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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Cross References

Psalms 78:37Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 2:12Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

Hosea 9:1Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.

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 →

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