Ezekiel 16:1

New Century Version

The Lord spoke his word to me, saying:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The word of the Lord came to me again:

Hebrew Names Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

King James Version
Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

English Standard Version
Again the word of the Lord came to me:

New American Standard Bible
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Amplified Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

World English Bible
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Contemporary English Version
The Lord said:

Complete Jewish Bible
The word of Adonai came to me:

Darby Translation
And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the word of the Lord came to me. He said,

George Lamsa Translation
AGAIN the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me again.

Lexham English Bible
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Literal Translation
And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Agayne, the worde of LORDE spake vnto me, sayenge:

American Standard Version
Again the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

King James Version (1611)
Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Agayne the word of the Lorde came vnto me, saying:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

English Revised Version
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the word of the Lord was maad to me,

Update Bible Version
Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New English Translation
The word of the Lord came to me:

New King James Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

New Living Translation
Then another message came to me from the Lord :

New Life Bible
The Word of the Lord came to me, saying,

New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord came to me:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Revised Standard Version
Again the word of the LORD came to me:

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

THE MESSAGE
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.

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord spoke his word to me, saying: ² "Human, tell Jerusalem about her hateful actions. ³ Say, ‘This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your beginnings and your ancestors were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. ⁴ On the day you were born, your cord was not cut. You were not washed with water to clean you. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. ⁵ No one felt sorry enough for you to do any of these things for you. No, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were hated on the day you were born.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 14:34 - but Isaiah 1:21 - become Jeremiah 2:23 - see Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Ezekiel 2:3 - a rebellious nation Ezekiel 22:2 - her abominations Hosea 1:2 - for Hosea 4:12 - gone Amos 2:4 - because Zechariah 5:7 - is

Cross-References

Genesis 11:30
Sarai was not able to have children.

Genesis 12:16
the king was kind to Abram because he thought Abram was her brother. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the Lord has not allowed me to have children, so have sexual relations with my slave girl. If she has a child, maybe I can have my own family through her." Abram did what Sarai said.

Genesis 16:3
It was after he had lived ten years in Canaan that Sarai gave Hagar to her husband Abram. (Hagar was her slave girl from Egypt.)

Genesis 16:9
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Go home to your mistress and obey her."

Genesis 16:10
The angel also said, "I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted."

Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.

Genesis 21:21
He lived in the Desert of Paran, and his mother found a wife for him in Egypt.

Genesis 25:21
Isaac's wife could not have children, so Isaac prayed to the Lord for her. The Lord heard Isaac's prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant.

Judges 13:2
There was a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan, who lived in the city of Zorah. He had a wife, but she could not have children.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The word of prophecy from the Lord, as the Targum; the following representation was made to him under a spirit of prophecy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Idolatry is frequently represented by the prophets under the figure of a wife’s unfaithfulness to her husband. This image is here so portrayed, as to exhibit the aggravation of Israel’s guilt by reason of her origin and early history. The original abode of the progenitors of the race was the land of Canaan, defiled with idolatry and moral corruption. Israel itself was like a child born in a polluted land, abandoned from its birth, left by its parents in the most utter neglect to the chance regard of any passer-by. Such was the state of the people in Egypt Ezekiel 16:3-5. On such a child the Lord looked with pity, tended, and adopted it. Under His care it grew up to be comely and beautiful, and the Lord joined it to Himself in that close union, which is figured by the bonds of wedlock. The covenants made under Moses and Joshua represent this alliance Ezekiel 16:6-8. In the reigns of David and Solomon, Israel shone with all the glory of temporal prosperity Ezekiel 16:9-14. The remainder of the history of the people when divided is, in the prophet’s eye, a succession of defection and degradation marked by the erection of high places Ezekiel 16:16-20; by unholy alliances with foreign nations Ezekiel 16:26-33. Such sins were soon to meet their due punishment. As an unfaithful wife was brought before the people, convicted, and stoned, so should the Lord make His people a gazing-stock to all the nations round about, deprive them of all their possessions and of their city, and cast them forth as exiles to be spoiled and destroyed in a foreign land Ezekiel 16:35-43.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XVI

In this chapter the mercy of God to Jerusalem, (or the Jewish

Church and nation,) is set forth by the emblem of a person that

should take up an exposed infant, bring her up with great

tenderness, and afterwards marry her, 1-14.

She is then upbraided with her monstrous ingratitude in

departing from the worship of God, and polluting herself with

the idolatries of the nations around her, under the figure of

a woman that proves false to a tender and indulgent husband,

15-52.

But, notwithstanding these her heinous provocations, God

promises, after she should suffer due correction, to restore

her again to his favour, 53-63.

The mode of describing apostasy from the true religion to the

worship of idols under the emblem of adultery, (a figure very

frequent in the sacred canon,) is pursued unth great force, and

at considerable length, both in this and the twenty-third

chapter; and is excellently calculated to excite in the Church

of God the highest detestation of all false worship.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVI