Ezechiël 16:5

Staten Vertaling

Geen oog had medelijden over u, om u een van deze dingen te doen, om zich over u te erbarmen; maar gij zijt geworpen geweest op het vlakke des velds, om de walgelijkheid van uw ziel, ten dage, toen gij geboren waart.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
niemand bekommerde zich om u, dat hij zich over u zou ontfermd hebben, om een van die dingen aan u te doen, maar gij werdt op het veld geworpen, zo veracht was uwe ziel, toen gij geboren werdt.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Niemand zag met ontferming naar u om uit medelijden een dezer dingen aan u te doen; toen gij geboren waart, werdt gij weggeworpen op het veld, als een wier leven niets waard is.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

eye: Ezekiel 2:6, Isaiah 49:15, Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:19, Lamentations 4:3, Lamentations 4:10

but thou: Genesis 21:10, Exodus 1:22, Numbers 19:16, Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 9:22, Jeremiah 22:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:13 - Thine eye Job 3:12 - the knees Proverbs 3:8 - thy

Gill's Notes on the Bible

None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee,.... Or, "one of these" k; not so much as one of them: sad must be the case of an infant, when it meets with no tender heart or kind hand from midwife, nurse, or mother, to do these things for it: this is expressive of the helpless, forlorn, and unpitied state of the Israelites in Egypt; who, when their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, had no mercy shown them by Pharaoh and his taskmasters, Exodus 1:14. So the Targum,

"the eye of Pharaoh did not spare you to do one good thing for you, to give you rest from your bondage, to have mercy on you:''

but thou wast cast out in the open field; alluding to infants exposed by their unnatural parents, or unkind nurses, and left in an open field, or any desert place, to perish for want, unless some kind providence appears for them: this open field may design the land of Egypt, whither Jacob and his posterity were, being driven out of Canaan by a famine; and where, after the death of Joseph, they were exposed to the hardships and cruelties of the Egyptians; and who, commanding their male children to be slain, doubtless occasioned the exposing of many of them, as well as Moses, to which some reference may be had; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

"and he (Pharaoh) decreed a full decree to cast your male children into the river, to destroy you when you were in Egypt:''

to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born; the Israelites were loathsome to the Egyptians, as every shepherd was an abomination to them, and such were they, Genesis 46:34; and all this may be applied to the state and condition of men by nature, even of God's elect, whose extraction is from fallen man; descend immediately from unclean parents; are conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity; can have no communication of grace from their parents, or others; by whom they cannot be washed from their sins, or sanctified, or clothed, or made righteous; but are in a hopeless and helpless condition; and are loathsome and abominable to God, and to themselves too, when they come to see the state they are in.

k אחת מאלה "unum ex istis", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus "unum ex his", Pagninus, Montanus, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To the lothing of thy person - Or, “so abhorred was thy person.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:5. Thou wast cast out in the open field — This is an allusion to the custom of some heathen and barbarous nations, who exposed those children in the open fields to be devoured by wild beasts who had any kind of deformity, or whom they could not support.