Ezekiel 23:35

35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turn you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings."

Ezekiel 23:35 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast forgotten
me
His word, worship, and ordinances, and did not attend unto them, but worshipped strange gods: so the Targum,

``because thou hast left my worship:''

and cast me behind thy back; or, as the same paraphrase,

``hast cast the fear of me from before thine eyes;''

or out of thy sight, his laws and statutes; see ( Nehemiah 9:26 ) ( Isaiah 5:24 ) , as men cast behind their backs that which they have no value for and loath, and which they do not care to see, and choose to forget: therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms;
that is, the guilt of their sins, the punishment of their idolatries, and shame and confusion for them.

Ezekiel 23:35 In-Context

33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation [is] the cup of your sister, Samaria.

34 And you will drink it, and you will drain [it], and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for {I myself} spoke," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turn you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings."

36 And Yahweh said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds to them

37 For they committed adultery, and blood [is] on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me--they sacrificed them as food!

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "also"