10These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.
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And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Behold, 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. …
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)God had often spoken to Ezekiel, and by him to the people, to this effect, but now his word comes again ; for God speaks the same thing once, yea, twice , yea, many a time, and all little enough, and too little, for man perceives it not . Note, To convince sinners of the evil of sin, and of their misery and danger by reason of it, there is need of line upon line , so loth we are to know the worst…
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