Ezequiel 23:18

18 Então prosseguiu abertamente em sua prostituição e expôs a sua nudez, e eu me afastei dela desgostoso, assim como eu tinha me afastado de sua irmã.

Ezequiel 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.

Ezequiel 23:18 In-Context

16 Assim que ela os viu, desejou-os ardentemente e lhes mandou mensageiros até a Caldeia.

17 Então os babilônios vieram procurá-la, até a cama do amor, e em sua cobiça a contaminaram. Depois de haver sido contaminada por eles, ela se afastou deles desgostosa.

18 Então prosseguiu abertamente em sua prostituição e expôs a sua nudez, e eu me afastei dela desgostoso, assim como eu tinha me afastado de sua irmã.

19 Contudo, ela ia se tornando cada vez mais promíscua à medida que se recordava dos dias de sua juventude, quando era prostituta no Egito.

20 Desejou ardentemente os seus amantes, cujos membros eram como os de jumentos e cuja ejaculação era como a de cavalos.