Ezekiel 16:23

“‘“It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord GOD—

World English Bible

In The King James Version

And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)

In Context

22In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in your blood.

24“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

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Cross References

Ezekiel 2:10He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.

Ezekiel 13:18and say, “The Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the women who sew magic bands on all elbows and make veils for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of my people and save souls alive for yourselves?

Zephaniah 3:1Woe to her who is rebellious and polluted, the oppressing city!

Matthew 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Revelation 12:12Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short 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 →

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