You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.
Here God repeats what we saw before, that the Jews were deprived of all excuse. We know how bold they were in their expostulations, and how they always cried out when God treated them severely. Because, therefore, complaints were always flying about from this proud people, here, as before, God pronounces that they deserved their sufferings: you bear, says he, not any immoderate rigor of...
Jerusalem was her mother's own child: as the Canaanites loathed their husbands and children, so she forsook the Lord and was barbarous to her own. She learned their way, trod in their steps, and loved their idols as eagerly as they did, the like mother, like daughter, not in name alone but in corruption.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 16:44-59
For thus saith the Lord God,.... And what he says may be depended upon as truth, and what will certainly come to pass: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done; reward them according to their works; or execute the law of retaliation upon them; and reject them, as they had rejected him; and cast them off from being his people, since they...