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href="/esv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“How sick is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these <i>things</i>, the work of an imperious whorish woman;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/16.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord GOD, “seeing you do all these <i>things,</i> the deeds of a brazen harlot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“How feverish is your heart,” declares the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the action of a bold prostitute!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220How languishing is your heart,&#8221 declares the Lord GOD, &#8220while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/16.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“How languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“How languishing is your heart,” declares Lord Yahweh, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/ezekiel/16.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“How weakened by longing <i>and</i> lust is your heart (mind),” says the Lord GOD, “while you do all these things, the actions of a bold <i>and</i> brazen prostitute.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/ezekiel/16.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“ ‘How your heart was inflamed with lust —the declaration of the Lord GOD—when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />How your heart was inflamed with lust"—the declaration of the Lord GOD—"when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/ezekiel/16.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/ezekiel/16.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I, the LORD God, say that you were so disgusting that you would have done anything to get what you wanted. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/ezekiel/16.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/ezekiel/16.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />" 'You have no will power! declares the Almighty LORD. You do everything a shameless prostitute does.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/ezekiel/16.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/ezekiel/16.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"How weak is your heart," declares the Lord GOD, "when you committed all of these deeds, the acts of an imperious whore! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/ezekiel/16.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"'How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/ezekiel/16.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"'How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious lewd woman;<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/ezekiel/16.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD, while you do all these things, the acts of a shameless prostitute!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/ezekiel/16.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/16.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />How weak [is] your heart, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH, "" In your doing all these, "" The work of a domineering, whorish woman.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/ezekiel/16.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/ezekiel/16.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />How thy heart languished, says the Lord Jehovah, in thy doing all these, the work of a woman, an imperious harlot;<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/ezekiel/16.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/16.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />With what can I cleanse your heart, says the Lord God, since you do all these things, the works of a woman who is a shameless prostitute?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/ezekiel/16.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />How wild your lust!—oracle of the Lord GOD—that you did all these works of a shameless prostitute,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/16.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />How sick is your heart, says the Lord GOD, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen whore;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/16.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />How shall I judge you, O daughter, says the LORD God, seeing that you did all these things, the works of a whore and a rebellious woman?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/16.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />How shall I judge your daughter, says THE LORD OF LORDS, because you have done all these works of a whore and an insolent woman?<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/ezekiel/16.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/ezekiel/16.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith the Lord, while thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=3776" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Jerusalem's Unfaithfulness</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">29</span>So you extended your promiscuity to Chaldea, the land of merchants—but even with this you were not satisfied! <span class="reftext">30</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: māh (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">How</a> <a href="/hebrew/535.htm" title="535: ’ă·mu·lāh (V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-fs) -- To be weak, languish. A primitive root; to droop; by implication to be sick, to mourn.">weak-willed</a> <a href="/hebrew/3826.htm" title="3826: lib·bā·ṯêḵ (N-fsc:: 2fs) -- Heart. Feminine of leb; the heart.">is your heart,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5002.htm" title="5002: nə·’um (N-msc) -- Utterance. From na'am; an oracle.">declares</a> <a href="/hebrew/136.htm" title="136: ’ă·ḏō·nāy (N-proper-ms) -- Lord. Am emphatic form of 'adown; the Lord.">the Lord</a> <a href="/hebrew/3069.htm" title="3069: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- YHWH. A variation of Yhovah.">GOD,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ba·‘ă·śō·w·ṯêḵ (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf:: 2fs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">while you do</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kāl- (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/428.htm" title="428: ’êl·leh (Pro-cp) -- These. Prolonged from 'el; these or those.">these things,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4639.htm" title="4639: ma·‘ă·śêh (N-msc) -- A deed, work. From asah; an action; generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product or property.">the acts</a> <a href="/hebrew/7986.htm" title="7986: šal·lā·ṭeṯ (Adj-fs) -- Imperious. Feminine from shalat; a vixen.">of a shameless</a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: ’iš·šāh- (N-fs) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2181.htm" title="2181: zō·w·nāh (N-fs) -- To commit fornication, be a harlot. A primitive root; to commit adultery; figuratively, to commit idolatry.">prostitute!</a> </span><span class="reftext">31</span>But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/3-6.htm">Jeremiah 3:6-10</a></span><br />Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there. / I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it. / She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2-5</a></span><br />Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. / Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst. / I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/57-7.htm">Isaiah 57:7-8</a></span><br />On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. / Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-20.htm">Jeremiah 2:20-25</a></span><br />“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute. / I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine? / Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-14</a></span><br />My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-27.htm">Jeremiah 13:27</a></span><br />Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-1.htm">Hosea 9:1</a></span><br />Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-4.htm">James 4:4</a></span><br />You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-17</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Isaiah 1:21</a></span><br />See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/2-20.htm">Revelation 2:20-22</a></span><br />But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols. / Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling. / Behold, I will cast her onto a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her will suffer great tribulation unless they repent of her deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-7.htm">Jeremiah 5:7-9</a></span><br />“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. / They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-39.htm">Matthew 12:39</a></span><br />Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/11-2.htm">2 Corinthians 11:2-3</a></span><br />I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. / I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;</p><p class="hdg">weak</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/9-13.htm">Proverbs 9:13</a></b></br> A foolish woman <i>is</i> clamorous: <i>she is</i> simple, and knoweth nothing.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-3.htm">Isaiah 1:3</a></b></br> The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: <i>but</i> Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-12.htm">Jeremiah 2:12,13</a></b></br> Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD… </p><p class="hdg">the work</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/16-15.htm">Judges 16:15,16</a></b></br> And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart <i>is</i> not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength <i>lieth</i>… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm">Proverbs 7:11-13,21</a></b></br> (She <i>is</i> loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm">Isaiah 3:9</a></b></br> The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide <i>it</i> not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Acting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-23.htm">Actions</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-23.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-20.htm">Brazen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-23.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-3.htm">Domineering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-17.htm">Feeble</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/14-7.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/ezekiel/3-7.htm">Impudent</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-8.htm">Restraint</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-23.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-11.htm">Wanton</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-17.htm">Weak</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-6.htm">Weak-Willed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/6-9.htm">Whorish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-13.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/20-9.htm">Acting</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-43.htm">Actions</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm">Affirmation</a> <a href="/mark/7-4.htm">Brazen</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm">Declares</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-24.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/1_peter/5-3.htm">Domineering</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-7.htm">Feeble</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-31.htm">Harlot</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-31.htm">Heart</a> <a href="/psalms/59-3.htm">Impudent</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-30.htm">Lewd</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Loose</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-31.htm">Prostitute</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-13.htm">Restraint</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm">Sovereign</a> <a href="/nahum/3-4.htm">Wanton</a> <a href="/ezekiel/21-7.htm">Weak</a> <a href="/2_timothy/3-6.htm">Weak-Willed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-44.htm">Whorish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-29.htm">Work</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 16</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-1.htm">Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-6.htm">God's extraordinary love toward her,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm">Her grievous judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">35. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm">Her sin, equal to her mother, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">46. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm">and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">59. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm">calls for judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">60. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm">Mercy is promised her in the end</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/16.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/ezekiel/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/ezekiel/16.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>How weak-willed is your heart, declares the Lord GOD,</b><br>This phrase highlights the spiritual condition of Israel, emphasizing their lack of moral and spiritual resolve. In biblical context, the heart often represents the center of will and decision-making. The Lord GOD, Yahweh, is portrayed as the ultimate authority, whose declarations are absolute. This reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where Israel's infidelity is seen as a heart issue. The weakness of heart can be compared to other scriptures like <a href="/jeremiah/17-9.htm">Jeremiah 17:9</a>, which speaks of the deceitful heart, and <a href="/james/1-8.htm">James 1:8</a>, which describes a double-minded person as unstable.<p><b>while you do all these things,</b><br>This refers to the actions of Israel, which are detailed earlier in the chapter. <a href="/ezekiel/16.htm">Ezekiel 16</a> uses vivid imagery to describe Israel's idolatry and unfaithfulness, likening it to adultery. The phrase "all these things" encompasses the various forms of idolatry and alliances with pagan nations, which were forbidden by God. Historically, Israel's engagement with surrounding nations often led to the adoption of their gods and practices, contrary to the commands given in the Torah.<p><b>the acts of a shameless prostitute!</b><br>The metaphor of prostitution is used throughout the Bible to describe spiritual unfaithfulness. In <a href="/ezekiel/16.htm">Ezekiel 16</a>, Israel is compared to a prostitute who engages in idolatry without shame. This imagery is meant to convey the gravity of Israel's sin and their betrayal of the covenant with God. The cultural context of the time viewed prostitution as a symbol of moral and social degradation. This metaphor is also seen in Hosea, where Israel's unfaithfulness is depicted through the prophet's marriage to an unfaithful wife. The use of such strong language underscores the seriousness of Israel's apostasy and serves as a call to repentance.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a></b><br>A prophet during the Babylonian exile, Ezekiel is known for his vivid visions and symbolic actions. He delivers God's messages to the Israelites, often focusing on their unfaithfulness and the need for repentance.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation of Israel is depicted metaphorically as an unfaithful wife in this chapter. God uses this imagery to illustrate Israel's spiritual adultery through idolatry and alliances with pagan nations.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord_god.htm">The Lord GOD</a></b><br>The sovereign and holy God who speaks through Ezekiel, expressing His righteous anger and disappointment with Israel's unfaithfulness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city is personified as a woman who has turned away from God, engaging in idolatry and immorality, symbolizing the spiritual state of the nation.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/b/babylonian_exile.htm">Babylonian Exile</a></b><br>The historical context of Ezekiel's prophecies, where the Israelites are in captivity due to their disobedience and idolatry.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_spiritual_adultery.htm">The Danger of Spiritual Adultery</a></b><br>Just as Israel was unfaithful to God, believers today must guard against idolatry and spiritual compromise. Anything that takes precedence over our relationship with God can become an idol.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_weakness_of_the_heart.htm">The Weakness of the Heart</a></b><br>The phrase "weak-willed heart" suggests a lack of spiritual resolve. Christians are called to strengthen their hearts through prayer, Scripture, and community to resist temptation and remain faithful.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_righteous_judgment.htm">God's Righteous Judgment</a></b><br>God's response to Israel's unfaithfulness is a reminder of His holiness and justice. Believers should live in reverence and obedience, understanding that God disciplines those He loves.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>Despite Israel's unfaithfulness, God's desire is for their repentance and restoration. This underscores the importance of repentance in the Christian life and God's readiness to forgive.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_hope_of_restoration.htm">The Hope of Restoration</a></b><br>While <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/16.htm">Ezekiel 16</a> highlights judgment, it also points to the hope of restoration. Believers can find encouragement in God's promise to restore and renew those who turn back to Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_16.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 16</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_reconcile_joshua_6_21_with_mercy.htm">How do we reconcile the mass killing commanded in this chapter with the Bible's teachings on mercy (Joshua 6:21)?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_blame_them_for_judah's_sins.htm">Hosea 4:15: How can God hold the people responsible for following Judah's sins if their fates are ultimately under His control?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_isaiah_45_9_relate_to_free_will.htm">How does Isaiah 45:9's analogy of the clay questioning the potter align with human free will and responsibility for evil?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_hell_just_for_finite,_brief_sins.htm">How can Hell be a just punishment for finite sins committed in a short lifetime?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/16.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(30) <span class= "bld">Weak.</span>--The English word scarcely expresses the force of the original :--languishing with desire. The word <span class= "ital">heart </span>occurs here only in the feminine.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/16.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 30.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">How weak</span>, etc.! The weakness is that expressed in the Latin <span class="accented">impotens libidinis</span>, with no strength to resist the impulses of desire. The word <span class="cmt_word">imperious</span> (perhaps <span class="accented">masterful</span> would be better) is that of one who is subject to no outward control. One is reminded of Dante on Semimlnis ('Inf.,' 5:56). The strange renderings of the LXX. (<span class="greek">τὶ διαθῶ τὴυ θυγατέρα σου</span>) and the Vulgate (<span class="accented">in quo mundabo cor tuum</span>) are difficult to account for, but probably indicate that the present text is corrupt. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">How</span><br /><span class="heb">מָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">weak-willed</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲמֻלָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·mu·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_535.htm">Strong's 535: </a> </span><span class="str2">To droop, to be sick, to mourn</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is your heart,</span><br /><span class="heb">לִבָּתֵ֔ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(lib·bā·ṯêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3826.htm">Strong's 3826: </a> </span><span class="str2">The heart</span><br /><br /><span class="word">declares</span><br /><span class="heb">נְאֻ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(nə·’um)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5002.htm">Strong's 5002: </a> </span><span class="str2">An oracle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Lord</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנָ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·nāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_136.htm">Strong's 136: </a> </span><span class="str2">The Lord</span><br /><br /><span class="word">GOD,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוִ֑ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3069.htm">Strong's 3069: </a> </span><span class="str2">YHWH</span><br /><br /><span class="word">while you do</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּעֲשׂוֹתֵךְ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ba·‘ă·śō·w·ṯêḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">all</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּל־</span> <span class="translit">(kāl-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">these things,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵ֔לֶּה</span> <span class="translit">(’êl·leh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - common plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_428.htm">Strong's 428: </a> </span><span class="str2">These, those</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the acts</span><br /><span class="heb">מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ma·‘ă·śêh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4639.htm">Strong's 4639: </a> </span><span class="str2">An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of a shameless</span><br /><span class="heb">שַׁלָּֽטֶת׃</span> <span class="translit">(šal·lā·ṭeṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7986.htm">Strong's 7986: </a> </span><span class="str2">Imperious </span><br /><br /><span class="word">prostitute!</span><br /><span class="heb">זוֹנָ֖ה</span> <span class="translit">(zō·w·nāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2181.htm">Strong's 2181: </a> </span><span class="str2">To commit adultery, to commit idolatry</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/ezekiel/16-30.htm">Ezekiel 16:30 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/ezekiel/16-30.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 16:30 How weak is your heart says (Ezek. 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