Ezekiel 16:22

All during the time when you were acting like a prostitute and doing other detestable things, you did not think about the time when it was as though you were very young, naked [DOU], lying in your own blood and kicking.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.

In Context

21You slaughtered those who were like [MET] my children, and offered them to be sacrifices to the gods!

23So I, Yahweh the Lord, declare that terrible things will happen to you. In addition to all the other wicked things that you did,

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Cross References

Ezekiel 16:3Say to them, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says to you people of Jerusalem: It is as though you are a woman who [MET] was born in the country where the Canaan people-group lived. It is as though [MET] your father belonged to the Amor people-group and your mother belonged to the Heth people-group.

Ezekiel 16:60But I will not forget the agreement that I made with you long ago [MET], and I will make an agreement with you that will endure forever.

Hosea 11:1“Before the Israeli people became a nation [MET], I loved them like a man loves his son, and I called them out of Egypt.

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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