Ezekiel 23:18

18 "She ¹uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then I became ²disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her ³sister.

Ezekiel 23:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:18

So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness,
&c.] The Jews did not cease from their idolatries when they broke with the Babylonians; but were rather more frequent and impudent in them, and courted the friendship and alliance of other Heathen nations, and their worship; even as a lewd woman, when she has cast off her former lovers, does not leave her lewdness, but seeks after others; and by her impudence in discovering her whoredoms, and her nakedness, and by all the signs of a prostitute, draws in others to commit lewdness with her: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from
her sister;
as a virtuous husband is alienated from an adulterous wife, and cannot admit her to his bed and board, so the mind of the Lord was alienated from the Jews, because of their idolatries; nor could he favour them with his presence, and the blessings of his providence and goodness, as he had formerly done; even as his mind had been alienated, on the same account, from the ten tribes of Israel, and which he showed by suffering them to be carried captive.

Ezekiel 23:18 In-Context

16 "When she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

17 "The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

18 "She uncovered her harlotries and uncovered her nakedness; then I became disgusted with her, as I had become disgusted with her sister.

19 "Yet she multiplied her harlotries, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the harlot in the land of Egypt

20 "She lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 8:12; Ezekiel 21:24; Ezekiel 23:10
• 2. Psalms 78:59; Psalms 106:40; Jeremiah 12:8
• 3. Ezekiel 23:9; Amos 5:21

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "My soul"
• [b]. Lit "My soul"