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Ezekiel 23:34

Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, so that she would feel the full effect of its bitterness, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, gnawing them in a sort of passion to feel the fullness of God's anger, and pluck off thine own breasts, willfully mutilating them as the instruments of lewdness; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

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See also Ezekiel 23:34 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 23:34. _THOU SHALT - PLUCK OFF THINE OWN BREASTS_] Thou shalt _tear them_; a frequent action in extreme sorrow and desolation. _Weeping, tearing the bosom, and beating the breasts_. Tun...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    In Ezekiel 23:1 Samaria and Jerusalem are called two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, in their ungodly relation with Assyria and Chaldea. Aholah means “her tent.” Aholibah, “my tent is in her.” The latte...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EZEKIEL 23. FATAL ALLIANCE WITH FOREIGNERS. This is the third and last of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their material from the past rather than (as Ezekiel 22) from the pres...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BREAK: or, gnaw, lest. drop should be lost. PLUCK OFF. tear out: i.e. destroy the occasions of their idolatry. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Cf. Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 51:17. _break the sheards_ GNAW the sherds. The act of plucking out her own breasts is that of one intoxicated to madness, Jeremiah 25:16. The words are wanting in LXX. Beating...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND PLUCK OFF THINE OWN BREASTS— _And shalt tear thy breasts._ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. The Punishment of Jerusalem 23:22-35 TRANSLATION (22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom your soul is alienated, a...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. THOU SHALT BREAK THE SHERDS THEREOF - s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PLUCK off] RV 'tear.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE UNCHASTE SISTERS, OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16. Oholah (Samaria) an...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 23 * The *Lord had made special promises to *Israel. Those...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁתִ֨ית אֹותָ֜הּ וּ מָצִ֗ית וְ אֶת

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    OHOLA AND OHOLIBAH Ezekiel 23:1 THE allegory of chapter 23 adds hardly any new thought to those which have already, been expounded in connection with chapter 16 and chapter 20. The ideas which enter...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next prophecy dealt with the sins of Samaria and Jerusalem under the figures of two women, Oholah and Oholibah. The prophet first described their sins. Samaria was charged with unfaithfulness in h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fragments, as drunkards sometimes bite (Haydock) the cup in their rage. --- Rend. What had been the occasion of thy fall: (Calmet) pectori planxi. (Ovid, ep. 5.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Reader will enter into the beauties of this Chapter, and the design of it also, if he takes with him the consideration all the way along as he reads it, that the whole scope of the Chapter is to s...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Chapter 22 recapitulates the sin of Jerusalem, of her prophets, her priests, and her princes. The eye of God sought for some one to stand in the ga...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU SHALT EVEN DRINK IT, AND SUCK IT OUT,.... The very dregs of it, that which lies at the bottom, which is the most nauseous and the most pernicious; not through love to it, but through force, shall...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Thou shalt even drink it and suck [it] out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 34. _And thou shalt break the...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore will I give her cup_, &c. I will make thee drink the same bitter draught, or experience the same calamity that has fallen upon her. God's judgments are often compared to a cup of intoxicati...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU SHALT EVEN DRINK IT; nothing shall divert the punishment. AND SUCK IT OUT; the dregs shalt thou drink, and multiply thine own sorrows. BREAK THE SHERDS; either out of indignation, or to suck out...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 23:34 drink H8354 (H8804) drain H4680 (H8804) break H1633 (H8762) shards H2789 tear H5423 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your sister's cup you will drink, Deep and large, You will be laughed at and derided, It contains much. Drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled with, A cup of waste...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parable of Aholah and Aholibah. Sentence passed upon Judah. CHARACTERS: Ezekiel, Aholah, Aholibah. CONCLUSION: Whatever creature we dote upon we make an idol of, and what we make an idol o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 23:2. _There were two women, the daughters of one mother._ Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as in Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:48....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah._ AHOLAH AND AHOLIBAH I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant contact with sin will pollute the conscience, and render it powerless...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:1 The allegory of the unfaithful sisters parallels ch. Ezekiel 16:1. Jerusalem’s destruction is depicted as yet more just and certain in light of the judgment that befell he

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:32 Two further THUS SAYS introductions frame the final outcomes. The CUP (see v. Ezekiel 23:31) i

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    (Ezekiel 23:22.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her punishment. Ezekiel 23:23. “PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA.” “From the circumstance that these names occur in immediate...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1; but with a marked variation. There we have the history of one harlot, _s.c. _of Isr...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 23: The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Son of man there were two women, who were the daughters of one mother: Now they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whored...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 23:8; Isaiah 51:17; Psalms 75:8; Revelation 18:7

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thou — Shalt stagger with sorrows, that shall intoxicate, and astonish. Suck it out — The dregs shalt thou drink, and multiply thine own sorrows. Break the sheards — To suck out what remains. And pluc...

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