Ezekiel 16:49

abundance of idleness prosperous ease, as R.V., lit. prosperity of quiet. Sodom lived in security and suffered no calamities, as Jeremiah 48:11 says of Moab, "Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees; he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity." On "fulness of bread" and consequent pride and forgetfulness of God cf. Deuteronomy 32:15; Hosea 13:6; Proverbs 30:7.

strengthen the hand Or, take hold of the hand, i.e. to help or rescue. Prosperity led to pride and inhumanity and then to abominations (Ezekiel 16:50).