Ezekiel 16:43
in Ezekiel 16Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.
KJV
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
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This verse in Ezekiel 16
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
I will put it out of thy power to commit it by cutting thee off. FAIRBAIRN translates, "I will not do what is scandalous (namely, encouraging thee in thy sin by letting it pass with impunity) upon all thine abominations"; referring to Le 19:29, the conduct of a father who encouraged his daughter in harlotry. English Version is much better.
This site's exposition
They will bring a mob against you
on Ezekiel 16:40-43
The penalty the law set for adultery falls on the city. Then the wrath is spent: “I will lay to rest My wrath against you.” The charge is named once more, “Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?”
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 35 and following) Therefore, prostitute, listen to the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God: Because your bronze has been poured out, and your disgrace has been revealed in your fornication (in your adulteries), with your lovers, and with the idols of your abominations, in the blood of your sons, whom you have given to them.
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
); for when God speaks in wrath he will be justified, and clear when he judges, clear when he is judged; and sinners, when they are condemned, shall have their sins so set in order before them that their mouth shall be stopped and they shall not have a word to object against the equity of the sentence.
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation. The sentence is passed in general: I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged (
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
The captivity in Babylon made the people of Israel to cease for ever from playing the harlot; it effectually cured them of their inclination to idolatry. And then all shall be well, when this is the fruit, even the taking away of sin; then (
quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — unbalanced-parens
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,....
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth - Thy former low beginning, when God made thee a people, who wast no people. He who maintains not a proper recollection of past mercies is not likely to abide steadfast in the faith. Ingratitude to God is the commencement, if not the parent, of many crimes.
The words behind it
27 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַ֗עַן | yaan | because | H3282 → | 99 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֤ר | ʾasher | that | H834 → | 5497 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| זָכַרְתְּ֙ | zakharti | you remembered | H2142 → | 230 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| יְמֵ֣י | yemei | [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| נְעוּרַ֔יִךְ | neurayikh | youth<s> your | H5271 → | 47 times |
| וַתִּרְגְּזִי־ | vatirgezi- | and you were enraged | H7264 → | |
| לִ֖י | li | to me | ||
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֵ֑לֶּה | ʾeleh | these [things] | H428 → | 746 times |
| וְגַם־ | vegam- | and also | H1571 → | 769 times |
| אֲנִ֨י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| הֵ֜א | he' | there! | H1887 → | |
| דַּרְכֵּ֣ךְ׀ | darkekh | conduct your | H1870 → | 707 times |
| בְּרֹ֣אשׁ | berosh | on [the] head | H7218 → | 599 times |
| נָתַ֗תִּי | natati | I will requite | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| נְאֻם֙ | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֣י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
| וְלֹ֤א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| עָשִׂית֙ | asiti | did you do? | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַזִּמָּ֔ה | hazimah | the licentiousness | H2154 → | 29 times |
| עַ֖ל | ʾal | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| תּוֹעֲבֹתָֽיִךְ׃ | toavotayikh | abominations your | H8441 → | 117 times |
יַ֗עַןbecause
yaanH3282 →99 times
אֲשֶׁ֤רthat
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
זָכַרְתְּ֙you remembered
zakhartiH2142 →230 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
יְמֵ֣י[the] days of
yemeiH3117 →2304 times
נְעוּרַ֔יִךְyouth<s> your
neurayikhH5271 →47 times
וַתִּרְגְּזִי־and you were enraged
vatirgezi-H7264 →
לִ֖יto me
li
בְּכָל־in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
אֵ֑לֶּהthese [things]
ʾelehH428 →746 times
וְגַם־and also
vegam-H1571 →769 times
אֲנִ֨יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
הֵ֜אthere!
he'H1887 →
דַּרְכֵּ֣ךְ׀conduct your
darkekhH1870 →707 times
בְּרֹ֣אשׁon [the] head
beroshH7218 →599 times
נָתַ֗תִּיI will requite
natatiH5414 →2011 times
נְאֻם֙[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
אֲדֹנָ֣י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 times
וְלֹ֤אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
עָשִׂית֙did you do?
asitiH6213 →2628 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַזִּמָּ֔הthe licentiousness
hazimahH2154 →29 times
עַ֖לto
ʾalH5921 →5755 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
תּוֹעֲבֹתָֽיִךְ׃abominations your
toavotayikhH8441 →117 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 6:9Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 20:43
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselves for all the evils you have done.
- Isaiah 7:13
Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
- Psalms 78:40
How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!
- Isaiah 43:24
You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
- Ezekiel 20:43
Through
Psalms 78:42They did not remember His power— the day He redeemed them from the adversary,
it leads to
- Judges 8:34
The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
- Jeremiah 32:21
You brought Your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great terror.
- Psalms 78:11
They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
- Exodus 14:12
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in…
- Judges 8:34
Where this verse is studied
About Ezekiel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
