37Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
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Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-43)Adultery was by the law of Moses made a capital crime. This notorious adulteress, the criminal at the bar, being in the foregoing verses found guilty, here has sentence passed upon her. It is ushered in with solemnity, Ezek. 16:35. The prophet, as the judge, in God’s name calls to her, O harlot! hear the word of the Lord . Our Saviour preached to harlots, for their conversion, to bring them into t…
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