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Ezekiel 16:58

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You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith Jehovah.

KJV

Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord.

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This verse in Ezekiel 16

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations,.... Openly and publicly; their abominable iniquities were written as it were upon their foreheads, and were to be seen of all men; their sin was to be read in their punishment, which is meant by bearing their lewdness and abominations; namely, the punishment due unto them: saith the Lord; who always speaks what is just and true; this is added to denote the truth of what had been, and the certainty of what would be, as follows:

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 56 and following) However, your sister Sodom was not heard in your mouth on the day of your pride before your wickedness was revealed, like it is now with the disgrace of the daughters of Syria, and all the daughters of Philistia around you who surround you. You carried your own wickedness and disgrace, says the Lord God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

borne thy lewdness--that is, the punishment of it (Eze 23:49). I do not treat thee with excessive rigor. Thy sin and punishment are exactly commensurate.

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The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • זִמָּתֵ֥ךְlicentiousness your

    zimatekhH2154 →29 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • תּוֹעֲבוֹתַ֖יִךְabominations your

    toavotayikhH8441 →117 times

  • אַ֣תְּyou

    ʾatH859 →1094 times

  • נְשָׂאתִ֑יםyou will bear them

    nesatimH5375 →656 times

  • נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of

    neumH5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃ סYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    Lamentations 5:7

    Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 16:12

      And you have done more evil than your fathers. See how each of you follows the stubbornness of his evil heart instead of obeying Me.

    • Jeremiah 31:29

      “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

    • Ezekiel 18:2

      “What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?

    • Jeremiah 14:20

      We acknowledge our wickedness, O LORD, the guilt of our fathers; indeed, we have sinned against You.

    • Exodus 20:5

      You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…

  • Through

    Genesis 4:13

    But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

    it leads to

    • Job 15:22

      He despairs of his return from darkness; he is marked for the sword.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 23:49

    They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 9:10

      But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

    • Ezekiel 7:4

      I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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