Ezekiel 16:15

because of thy renown In the consciousness of it. The consciousness of her beauty and renown removed from her mind the sense of dependence and responsibility, and she became vain in her own imaginations. Another prophet has expressed the same idea in regard to Babylon: "Thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever, so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst consider the issue of them … thou hast said, None seeth me." (Isaiah 47:7; Isaiah 47:10). Hävern. quotes Ovid, Fasti, i. 419, Fastus inest pulchris, sequiturque superbia formam.

every one that passed by A figure taken from the habit of harlots sitting by the wayside, Genesis 38:14; Jeremiah 3:2, "By the ways thou hast sat for them as an Arab in the desert."

his it was The prostitution was indiscriminate, Jeremiah 3:2; cf. ch. Ezekiel 23:40. The idea expressed is the ineradicable tendency of the people to adopt the religious customs of the nations with which age after age they came into connexion (Ezekiel 16:23 seq.). The phrase is peculiar and wanting in LXX.