Ezekiel 16:63
in Ezekiel 16so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your disgrace, declares the Lord GOD.”
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ASV
that thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame, when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
KJV
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
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This verse in Ezekiel 16
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 59 and following) Thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath and broken the covenant. But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both the older and the younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of the covenant.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Because of thy shame - Such a confusion for thy sin will cover thee. Indeed the more we feel of God's love, the more ashamed we are that ever we offended him. And the more our shame for sin is increased, the more will our comfort in God be increased also.
Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite. 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
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That thou mayest remember, and be confounded,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
"If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged" (1Co 11:31). all that thou hast done--enhancing the grace of God which has pardoned so many and so great sins. Nothing so melts into love and humility as the sense of the riches of God's pardoning grace (Lu 7:47). -- JFB26B.htm --
A VERY extraordinary chapter this 16th of Ezekiel! A minister could scarcely read it in public—he certainly would not like to explain its metaphors to a general audience, nor are we called upon to do so. To read it in private is another thing. And to have it read for you by the Holy Spirit and to be made to see and to feel its meaning, not merely as describing the Israelites, but as very much setting forth yourself, is a very different matter. Believe me, it is a lesson which, if it is well learned, will never be forgotten.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A VERY extraordinary chapter this 16th of Ezekiel! A minister could scarcely read it in public—he certainly would not like to explain its metaphors to a general audience, nor are we called upon to do so. To read it in private is another thing. And to have it read for you by the Holy Spirit and to be made to see and to feel its meaning, not merely as describing the Israelites, but as very much setting forth yourself, is a very different matter. Believe me, it is a lesson which, if it is well learned, will never be forgotten. It is a part of the Holy Spirit's business to convict us of sin and when He takes a chapter like this and puts us through our paces, verse by verse, and makes us eat the bitter herbs which each verse con-tains—and as He makes us feel as if we were drinking the water into which the dust of our idols had been cast when they had been broken and ground down, like the golden calf of the Israelites—when He makes us feel the grit between our teeth in every drop we drink, I say it is a lesson well worth receiving and one that is likely to stick by us all our days. There are two very amazing things in this chapter. Which is the more amazing is hard to tell. The first is the extraordinary sin of Israel. God speaks of it in the strongest imaginable language. He represents Judah's sin as being greater than the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, though both Sodom and Gomorrah had been destroyed for their abominations. He compares Judah's backslidings to the lewdness of a woman who forgets her marriage vows and sins blatantly with many lovers, adding filthiness to filthiness. And so He makes sin to appeal exceedingly sinful, as a violation of the heart's love to God and the soul's chastity towards the Most High.
When I am pacified toward thee - This intimates that the Jews shall certainly share in the blessings of the Gospel covenant, and that they shall be restored to the favor and image of God. And when shall this be? Whenever they please. They might have enjoyed them eighteen hundred years ago; but they would not come, though all things there then ready. They may enjoy them now; but they still choose to shut their eyes against the light, and contradict and blaspheme. As they do not turn to the Lord, the veil still continues on their hearts.
The words behind it
19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְמַ֤עַן | lemaan | so that | H4616 → | 272 times |
| תִּזְכְּרִי֙ | tizkeri | you may remember | H2142 → | 230 times |
| וָבֹ֔שְׁתְּ | vavoshet | and you will be ashamed | H954 → | 127 times |
| וְלֹ֨א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִֽהְיֶה־ | yihyeh- | it will belong | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָּ֥ךְ | lakh | to you | ||
| עוֹד֙ | ʾod | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| פִּתְח֣וֹן | pitchon | an opening of | H6610 → | |
| פֶּ֔ה | peh | a mouth | H6310 → | 498 times |
| מִפְּנֵ֖י | mipenei | <from> because of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| כְּלִמָּתֵ֑ךְ | kelimatekh | disgrace your | H3639 → | 30 times |
| בְּכַפְּרִי־ | bekhaperi- | when make atonement I | H3722 → | 102 times |
| לָךְ֙ | lokh | for you | ||
| לְכָל־ | lekhol | for all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | that | H834 → | 5497 times |
| עָשִׂ֔ית | ʾasit | you have done | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| נְאֻ֖ם | neum | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| אֲדֹנָ֥י | ʾadonai | [the] Lord | H136 → | 440 times |
| יְהוִֽה׃ ס | yahweh | Yahweh | H3069 → | 306 times |
לְמַ֤עַןso that
lemaanH4616 →272 times
תִּזְכְּרִי֙you may remember
tizkeriH2142 →230 times
וָבֹ֔שְׁתְּand you will be ashamed
vavoshetH954 →127 times
וְלֹ֨אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
יִֽהְיֶה־it will belong
yihyeh-H1961 →3559 times
לָּ֥ךְto you
lakh
עוֹד֙again
ʾodH5750 →490 times
פִּתְח֣וֹןan opening of
pitchonH6610 →
פֶּ֔הa mouth
pehH6310 →498 times
מִפְּנֵ֖י<from> because of
mipeneiH6440 →2123 times
כְּלִמָּתֵ֑ךְdisgrace your
kelimatekhH3639 →30 times
בְּכַפְּרִי־when make atonement I
bekhaperi-H3722 →102 times
לָךְ֙for you
lokh
לְכָל־for all
lekholH3605 →5413 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רthat
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
עָשִׂ֔יתyou have done
ʾasitH6213 →2628 times
נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of
neumH5002 →376 times
אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord
ʾadonaiH136 →440 times
יְהוִֽה׃ סYahweh
yahwehH3069 →306 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
Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
it leads to
- Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
- Galatians 3:22–23
But the Scripture pronounces all things confined by sin, so that by faith in Jesus Christ the promise might be given to those who believe.
- Romans 2:12–18
All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
- Romans 3:9
What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
- Galatians 5:18
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
- Galatians 3:10
Through
Psalms 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
it leads to
- Job 2:10
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- 1 Samuel 3:18
So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
- Daniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain…
- Job 2:10
Where this verse is studied
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1289: “The Heart Full and the Mouth Closed” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.