Ezekiel 16:30

Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

29And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these wast thou satisfied.

31Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast set up thy high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot gathering hires.

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Cross References

Proverbs 7:21So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, 1 And with the snares of her lips she forced him from the right path. 1

Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel does not know me, and the people has not regarded me.

Jeremiah 2:12The heaven is amazed at this, and is very exceedingly horror-struck, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:3And thou didst retain many shepherds for a stumbling block to thyself: thou hadst a whore’s face, thou didst become shameless toward all.

Hosea 9:1Rejoice not, O Israel, neither make merry, as other nations: for thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God; thou hast loved gifts upon 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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