Ezekiel 23:49

49 You'll pay the price for all your obsessive sex. You'll pay in full for your promiscuous affairs with idols. And you'll realize that I am God, the Master.'"

Ezekiel 23:49 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:49

And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you
Or, "give your lewdness" F17; the punishment of it; the just recompence of reward for their idolatry: and ye shall bear the sins of your idols;
the shame, and guilt, and punishment of their sins committed in worshipping idols: and ye shall know that I am the Lord God;
the only Lord God who is to be worshipped, and not idols; jealous of my honour and glory, and true to my word; who can and will accomplish all I have said; this the Jews knew and acknowledged when in captivity, and returned from it, as they will more fully when they shall be converted in the latter day.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 (hnktmz wntnw) "et dabunt scelus vestrum", V. L. Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezekiel 23:49 In-Context

47 Let the mob stone them and hack them to pieces - kill all their children, burn down their houses!
48 "'I'll put an end to sluttish sex in this country so that all women will be well warned and not copy you.
49 You'll pay the price for all your obsessive sex. You'll pay in full for your promiscuous affairs with idols. And you'll realize that I am God, the Master.'"
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