Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:27

27 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

Open thine eyes thou secure and foolish Adulteress, see what hath been done against thee, and consider it is for thy lewdness.

I have chastis'd and punisht already in some measure.

It may be read against thee. In like phrase. Isai. 5.25. and 9, 12, 17, 21. and 10.4. expresseth the punishing of this people.

Abated of that plentiful allowance a kind Husband made, and an unfaithful Wife abus'd: It refers to scarcity and penury, with which God did punish Idolatrous Israel, and this more than once.

Stir'd up first such to fight against them, and then gave Victory to their Arms, yet they might use the conquered as they pleas'd; sent them into Captivity into an Enemies Land, where they, that hated them, ruled over them, and no doubt such would satisfie their own lusts on these Captives.

Idolaters, but in this honester than the Iew: They were constant to their own God, and did not as the Iew, lewdly go a Whoring with every Idol they saw.

Will therefore reprove, and teach thee some modesty and chastity.

Either 'tis an Hebraisme, the Daughters of the Philistines for the whole Nation, or else some particular Cities, and Principalities of the Philistins, which quarrel'd with, and prevailed against the Jews, when God had been so provoked by the sins of the Jews.

Marginal references: 2 Chr. 28.[illegible: 2 letters].; Or, Citie[illegible: 1 letter].