Ezequiel 23:43

43 Entonces dije: “Si realmente quieren tener sexo con prostitutas viejas y estropeadas como estas, ¡que lo hagan!”.

Ezequiel 23:43 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:43

Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries
That had been an old adulterer or idolater; meaning either Aholah the ten tribes, who from Jeroboam's time had been guilty of idolatry; or Aholibah the two tribes, who had remained longer in their own country, and had been long given to idolatry; or both of them, as some think, the whole body of the people of Israel, who had been addicted to idolatry ever since they came out of Egypt, and so was like an old harlot indeed: now the Lord said "unto her", or "concerning her" ^F12; in his own mind, after the manner of men. So the Targum,

``I said concerning the congregation of Israel, whose people are old in sins:''

will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?
will they commit adultery with such an old harlot? are they not weary of her? and will they not rather loath and despise her? as it is common when such prostitutes grow old; and what pleasure can she take, thus advanced in years, in such impurities? suggesting that alliances and confederacies between the Jews and the nations of the world could not be agreeable on either side, especially to the former; but so it was, and so were their idolatries likewise. The Targum is,

``now she will leave her idols, and return to thy worship; but she returned not.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (hlbl) "de inveterata illa", Vatablus.

Ezequiel 23:43 In-Context

41 Se sentaron junto a ellos en un sofá con hermosos bordados y pusieron mi incienso y mi aceite especial sobre una mesa servida ante ustedes.

42 Desde su habitación llegaba el ruido de muchos hombres en plena juerga. Eran hombres lujuriosos y borrachos
provenientes del desierto, que les pusieron brazaletes en las muñecas y hermosas coronas sobre la cabeza.

43 Entonces dije: “Si realmente quieren tener sexo con prostitutas viejas y estropeadas como estas, ¡que lo hagan!”.

44 Y eso fue lo que hicieron. Tuvieron sexo con Aholá y Aholibá, esas prostitutas desvergonzadas.

45 Sin embargo, gente recta juzgará a esas ciudades hermanas por lo que verdaderamente son: adúlteras y asesinas.