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Ezekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord speaks through the prophet Ezekiel to the personified city of Jerusalem during a judicial oracle of condemnation, immediately after charging her with child sacrifice (Ezekiel 16:21) and before pronouncing woe (Ezekiel 16:23).
The words — The Hebrew term תּוֹעֲבֹתַ֙יִ/ךְ (to.'a.vo.Ta.yi/kh) literally means "your abominations," while זָכַ֖רְתְּ (za.khar.ti) translates to "you remembered." The text states that Jerusalem committed these acts without recalling her past condition.
The thread — Jeremiah 2:2 contrasts God remembering Israel's youthful devotion with Jerusalem's failure to remember. Ezekiel 16:43 repeats the failure to remember youth as grounds for judgment, while Hosea 11:1 notes God's past love during Israel's youth.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment of historical amnesia regarding God's past care and covenant faithfulness. It frames current rebellion as a deliberate rejection of known history rather than ignorance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 2:2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Ezekiel 16:43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but enraged Me with all these things, I will surely bring your deeds down upon your own head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed this lewdness on top of all your other abominations?
- Hosea 11:1 When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.
- Ezekiel 16:3 and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:60 But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
- Hosea 2:3 Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.