Ezekiel 23:18

18 Elle a mis à nu son impudicité, Elle a découvert sa nudité; Et mon coeur s'est détaché d'elle, Comme mon coeur s'était détaché de sa soeur.

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 Elle s'enflamma pour eux, au premier regard, Et leur envoya des messagers en Chaldée.

17 Et les enfants de Babylone se rendirent auprès d'elle, Pour partager le lit des amours, Et ils la souillèrent par leurs prostitutions. Elle s'est souillée avec eux, Puis son coeur s'est détaché d'eux.

18 Elle a mis à nu son impudicité, Elle a découvert sa nudité; Et mon coeur s'est détaché d'elle, Comme mon coeur s'était détaché de sa soeur.

19 Elle a multiplié ses prostitutions, En pensant aux jours de sa jeunesse, Lorsqu'elle se prostituait au pays d'Egypte.

20 Elle s'est enflammée pour des impudiques, Dont la chair était comme celle des ânes, Et l'approche comme celle des chevaux.