Ezekiel 16:2

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices.

Hebrew Names Version
Son of man, cause Yerushalayim to know her abominations;

King James Version
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

English Standard Version
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

New American Standard Bible
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

New Century Version
"Human, tell Jerusalem about her hateful actions.

Amplified Bible
"Son of man, make Jerusalem understand [the heinous and vile nature of] her repulsive (idolatrous) acts

World English Bible
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sonne of man, cause Ierusalem to knowe her abominations,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

Legacy Standard Bible
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

Berean Standard Bible
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominations

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, remind the people of Jerusalem of their disgusting sins

Complete Jewish Bible
"Human being, make Yerushalayim realize how disgusting her practices are.

Darby Translation
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Easy-to-Read Version
"Son of man, tell the people of Jerusalem about the terrible things they have done.

George Lamsa Translation
Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "point out to Jerusalem what disgusting things she has done.

Lexham English Bible
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem its detestable things,

Literal Translation
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou sonne of man, shewe the cite of Ierusalem their abhominacions,

American Standard Version
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

Bible in Basic English
Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

King James Version (1611)
Son of man, cause Ierusalem to know her abominations,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou sonne of man, shewe Hierusale their abhominations,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Son of man, testify to Jerusalem of her iniquities;

English Revised Version
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide, Sone of man, make thou knowun to Jerusalem her abhomynaciouns; and thou schalt seie,

Update Bible Version
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her disgusting behaviors;

Webster's Bible Translation
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

New English Translation
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominable practices

New King James Version
"Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

New Living Translation
"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable sins.

New Life Bible
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her hated sins.

New Revised Standard
Mortal, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Son of man Let Jerusalem know her abominations,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.

Revised Standard Version
"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

Young's Literal Translation
`Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said:

Contextual Overview

¹ God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her outrageous violations. Say this: ‘The Message of God , the Master, to Jerusalem: You were born and bred among Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. ⁴"‘On the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, you weren't bathed and cleaned up, you weren't rubbed with salt, you weren't wrapped in a baby blanket. No one cared a fig for you. No one did one thing to care for you tenderly in these ways. You were thrown out into a vacant lot and left there, dirty and unwashed—a newborn nobody wanted.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cause: Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 23:36, Ezekiel 33:7-9, Isaiah 58:1, Hosea 8:1

abominations: Ezekiel 8:9-17

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 2:1 - Son Micah 3:8 - to declare

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"

Genesis 3:17
He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, ‘Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."

Genesis 16:1
Sarai, Abram's wife, hadn't yet produced a child. She had an Egyptian maid named Hagar. Sarai said to Abram, " God has not seen fit to let me have a child. Sleep with my maid. Maybe I can get a family from her." Abram agreed to do what Sarai said.

Genesis 16:6
"You decide," said Abram. "Your maid is your business." Sarai was abusive to Hagar and Hagar ran away.

Genesis 16:9
The angel of God said, "Go back to your mistress. Put up with her abuse." He continued, "I'm going to give you a big family, children past counting. From this pregnancy, you'll get a son: Name him Ishmael; for God heard you, God answered you. He'll be a bucking bronco of a man, a real fighter, fighting and being fought, Always stirring up trouble, always at odds with his family."

Genesis 18:10
One of them said, "I'm coming back about this time next year. When I arrive, your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening at the tent opening, just behind the man.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on. God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication). Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son. Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister—and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).

Genesis 30:22
And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation." She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."

Ruth 4:11
All the people in the town square that day, backing up the elders, said, "Yes, we are witnesses. May God make this woman who is coming into your household like Rachel and Leah, the two women who built the family of Israel. May God make you a pillar in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem! With the children God gives you from this young woman, may your family rival the family of Perez, the son Tamar bore to Judah."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. That is, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, as the Targum; these are mentioned instead of the whole body of the people, because that Jerusalem was the metropolis of the nation, whose sins were very many and heinous: called "abominations", because abominable to God, and rendered them so to him; particularly their idolatries are meant; which, though committed by them, and so must be known to them, yet were not owned, confessed, and repented of by them, they not being convinced of the evil of them; in order to which the prophet is bid to set them before them, and show them the evil nature of them; and which he might do by writing to them, for he himself was now in Chaldea with the captives there. The Targum is,

"son of man, reprove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and show them their abominations.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:2. Cause Jerusalem to know her abominations — And such a revelation of impurity never was seen before or since. Surely the state of the Jews, before the Babylonish captivity, was the most profligate and corrupt of all the nations of the earth. This chapter contains God's manifesto against this most abominable people; and although there are many metaphors here, yet all is not metaphorical. Where there was so much idolatry, there must have been adulteries, fornications, prostitutions, and lewdness of every description. The description of the prophet is sufficiently clear, except where there is a reference to ancient and obsolete customs. What a description of crimes! The sixth satire of Juvenal is its counterpart. General remarks are all that a commentator is justified in bestowing on this very long, very circumstantial, and caustic invective. For its key, see on the thirteenth and sixty-third verses. Ezekiel 16:13; "Ezekiel 16:63".