Ezekiel 23:21

21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken

Ezekiel 23:21 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 23:21

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,
&c.] By committing the same; the same idolatries their fathers committed in Egypt they now committed, being in alliance with the same people: or, thou causest to be visited the lewdness of thy youth
^F1; by the Lord, who remembered their sins, and punished them for them: in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth:
committing spiritual fornication, that is, idolatry with them; signified by pressing and bruising the breasts and paps of virgins, by corporeal fornication with them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Kyrwen tmz ta ydqptw) "et visitasti scelus adolescestiae, vel pueritiae tuae", Piscator, Starckius; i.e. "visitari fecisti a Deo", a Lapide.

Ezekiel 23:21 In-Context

19 For she multiplied her fornications, remembering the days of her youth, in which she played the harlot in the land of Egypt

20 And she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.

21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness of thy youth, when thy breasts were pressed in Egypt, and the paps of thy virginity broken

22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will raise up against thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul hath been glutted: and I will gather them together against thee round about.

23 The children of Babylon, and all the Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings, and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians, beautiful young men, all the captains, and rulers, the princes of princes, and the renowned horsemen.