Ezechielis 4:10

Nova Vulgata

Et comedent et non saturabuntur; fornicabuntur et non multiplicabuntur, quoniam Dominum reliquerunt in non custodiendo.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Visio capitis mei in cubili meo : videbam, et ecce arbor in medio terr�, et altitudo ejus nimia.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Et comedent, et non saturabuntur;
fornicati sunt, et non cessaverunt:
quoniam Dominum dereliquerunt in non custodiendo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they shall eat: Leviticus 26:26, Proverbs 13:25, Isaiah 65:13-16, Micah 6:14, Haggai 1:6, Malachi 2:1-3

they shall commit: Hosea 4:14, Hosea 9:11-17

left: 2 Chronicles 24:17, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 125:5, Jeremiah 34:15, Ezekiel 18:24, Zephaniah 1:6, 2 Peter 2:20-22

Reciprocal: Isaiah 5:12 - they regard Isaiah 30:1 - that take Ezekiel 16:15 - and playedst Ezekiel 22:9 - they commit Hosea 4:7 - they were Hosea 4:18 - committed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they shall eat, and not have enough,.... Namely, the priests; for of them the words are continued, who ate of the sacrifices of the people, and of feasts made in honour of idols; and yet, either what they ate did not satisfy or nourish them, or else their appetites were still greedy after more of the same kind: or this may respect a famine, either at the siege of Samaria, or in their captivity; when they who had lived so voluptuously should have so little to eat, that it should not satisfy them: or though, as others, they eat to the honour of their idols, expecting to be blessed with plenty by them, they shall not have it:

they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase; that is, their offspring; they shall not beget children, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi; or the children they beget shall quickly die; yea, though they commit whoredom in the idol's temple with that view, where the women prostituted themselves for that purpose:

because they have left off to take heed to the Lord; to his word, and worship, and ordinances, which they formerly had some regard unto, but now had relinquished: or, "the Lord they have forsaken", or "left off to observe" y; his ways, his word, and worship. R. Saadiah connects this with the following words, they have forsaken the Lord to observe fornication and wine; but wrongly.

y את יהוה עזבו לשמר "Jehovam desierunt observare", Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Rivetus, Liveleus "ad observandum", Schmidt; "reliquerunt observare", Cocceius; "deseruerunt observare", so some in Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they shall eat, and not have enough - This is almost a proverbial saying of Holy Scripture, and, as such, has manifold applications. In the way of nature, it comes true in those, who, under God’s affictive Hand in famine or siege, “eat” what they have, but have “not enough,” and perish with hunger. It comes true in those, who, through bodily disease, are not nourished by their food. Yet not less true is it of those who, through their own insatiate desires, are never satisfied, but crave the more greedily, the more they have. Their sin of covetousness becomes their torment.

They shall commit whoredom and not increase - Literally, “they have committed whoredom.” The time spoken of is perhaps changed, because God would not speak of their future sin, as certain. There is naturally too a long interval between this sin and its possible fruit, which may be marked by this change of time. The sin was past, the effect was to be seen hereafter. They used all means, lawful and unlawful, to increase their offspring, but they failed, even because they used forbidden means. God’s curse rested upon those means. Single marriage, according to God’s law, “they twain shall be one flesh,” yields in a nation larger increase than polygamy. God turns illicit sexual intercourse to decay. His curse is upon it.

Because they have left off to take heed to the Lord - Literally, “to watch, observe, the Lord.” The eye of the soul should be upon God, watching and waiting to know all indications of His will, all guidings of His Eye. So the Psalmist says, “As the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hands of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until He have mercy upon us” Psalms 123:2. The Angels of God, great and glorious as they are, “do alway behold the Face of the Father” Matthew 18:10, at once filled with His love, and wrapped in contemplation, and reading therein His will, to do it. The lawless and hopeless ways of Israel sprang from their neglecting to watch and observe God. For as soon as man ceases to watch God, he falls, of himself, into sin. The eye which is not fixed on God, is soon astray amid the vanities and pomps and lusts of the world. So it follows;

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hosea 4:10. They shall eat, and not have enough — Whatever means they may use to satisfy or gratify themselves shall be ineffectual.