Bible Strands
Ezekiel 23:26
They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh declares judgment against the allegorical cities of Jerusalem and Samaria immediately after announcing His jealous rage and before promising to end their Egypt-born prostitution.
The words — הִפְשִׁטוּ (hif.shi.Tu) translates literally as "they will strip off" (H6584), and תִפְאַרְתֵּךְ (tif.'ar.Te/kh) means "your beauty" (H8597).
The thread — This motif of divinely orchestrated stripping and exposure recurs in Ezekiel 16:39, Jeremiah 13:22, and Ezekiel 23:29.
Why it lands — The text describes the forced removal of garments and jewelry as the direct mechanism of covenant judgment. It requires a reader to acknowledge that divine justice dismantles the very external symbols of pride and alliance that sustained idolatry.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 16:39 Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
- Jeremiah 13:22 And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- Ezekiel 23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”
- Ezekiel 16:16 You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!
- Ezekiel 16:37 therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
- 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.
- Hosea 2:9 Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.
- 1 Peter 3:3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
- Revelation 17:16 And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.