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Ezekiel 16:30

Listen to Ezekiel 16:30
30 Combien ton cœur est lâche, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel, que tu aies fait toutes ces choses à la façon d'une insigne prostituée!

Ezekiel 16:30 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God
Through sin; and being destitute of the grace of God, and so unable to resist any temptation, or oppose any corruption or lust, but carried away with everyone that offers; indulging every lust, and yet not satisfied; weak as water, unstable, fickle, and inconstant, seeking after new gods, and new kinds of worship. The Targum is,

``how strong is the wickedness of thy heart!''
the stronger the wickedness of the heart, the weaker, the heart is: seeing thou doest all these [things];
all the idolatries before mentioned; which was an argument not of her strength, but weakness, and yet of boldness, impudence, and resolution, to have her will: the work of an imperious whorish woman;
a whore, as she is impudent, is imperious, is one that rules and governs. The Targum is, who rules over herself; does what she pleases, will have her will and way, and cannot bear any contradiction; and who rules over others, such as are her gallants, obliging them to do as she commands. Jarchi's note is,
``over whom her imagination (or corruption) rules.''
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Ezekiel 16:30 In-Context

28 Tu t'es prostituée aux enfants de l'Assyrie, parce que tu n'étais pas assouvie; et après avoir commis adultère avec eux, tu ne fus point encore assouvie;
29 Car tu as multiplié tes impudicités avec la terre de Canaan et jusqu'en Caldée; même alors tu n'en eus point assez.
30 Combien ton cœur est lâche, dit le Seigneur, l'Éternel, que tu aies fait toutes ces choses à la façon d'une insigne prostituée!
31 Quand tu bâtissais tes maisons de débauche à chaque bout de rue, quand tu faisais tes hauts lieux dans toutes les places, tu n'as pas même été comme la femme débauchée qui réclame un salaire;
32 Tu as été la femme adultère qui reçoit les étrangers à la place de son mari.
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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