Ezekiel 16:54

54 so that you can bear your own shame and experience the disgrace you deserve for all you have done to shield them from feeling their own guilt.

Ezekiel 16:54 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:54

That thou mayest bear thine own shame
So long as the captivity remains; even until Sodom and Samaria, the Gentiles, and the ten tribes, are called and converted: and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done;
or, "for all that thou hast done" ^F5; for and because of all the abominable sins they had been guilty of: in that thou art a comfort to them;
to Sodom and Samaria; countenancing them in their sins; justifying their iniquities, and strengthening their hands in their wickedness, by doing the same, and greater abominations; or in partaking of the same punishment with them, captivity; this being a kind of solace to them, that they were not punished alone; so Jarchi.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (tyve rva lkm) "propter omnia quae fecisti", Junius & Tremellius, Polanus, Piscator.

Ezekiel 16:54 In-Context

52 But you too must bear your disgrace; for by your passing judgment that your sisters were innocent, through your having committed sins worse than theirs, they are shown to be more righteous than you. So be ashamed, and bear the disgrace you deserve for making your [guilty] sisters seem innocent!

53 "'I will end their exile - the exile of S'dom and her daughters, the exile of Shomron and her daughters, and the exile of your captives there among them;

54 so that you can bear your own shame and experience the disgrace you deserve for all you have done to shield them from feeling their own guilt.

55 Your sisters, S'dom with her daughters and Shomron with her daughters, will return to their previous condition; and you with your daughters will return to your previous condition.

56 When you were so proud, you spoke with contempt about your sister S'dom,