Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
Jerusalem pleads innocence, I am not polluted, but the facts convict her utterly. She revoked her oath to her sovereign Lord, kept league with His enemies, and trampled His crown. Now those very lovers she courted will execute her sentence; sinful affection breeds hatred swift as Amnon's did toward Tamar. The passionate fool swings from extreme to extreme.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 23:22-49
The Chaldeans whom Judah once loved and whose idols she worshiped, from these very allies she has now torn herself away. So the Lord raises them against her, surrounding Jerusalem on every side with no escape. She broke covenant with them; now they come to enforce His judgment.
AI summary
lovers . . . alienated-- (Eze 23:17). Illicit love, soon or late, ends in open hatred (Sa2 13:15). The Babylonians, the objects formerly of their God-forgetting love, but now, with characteristic fickleness, objects of their hatred, shall be made by God the instruments of their punishment.