Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:43

43 Because thou hast not remembred the dayes of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

This verse recapitulates the causes of God's great displeasure against Jerusalem.

Vid. ver. 22.

A mixt passion, in which is grief as well as anger, such as moves in the heart of a jealous Husband, or such as is the passion of one that is grieved, and angred at the rebukes of her folly, breaks out into disorderly carriage against the reprover, and tumultuating within her own breast, holds on her course.

Already mention'd and charged against thee.

Lay it now before thine eyes, and consider it.

Or have recompensed, for the Prophet speaks of the times when all he threatned from God shou'd be executed upon this people.

This passage is somewhat intricate, 'tis otherwise read by some, I have not done according to what all thine abominations deserve, or I have not executed such thoughts as all thy lewdness calls for. Some read, as we, in the second person, thou hast not, &c. i. e. made account, or thought with thy self what wou'd become of thee, or what thou should'st do after all thine abominations, therefore these sore Judgments have overtaken and ruin'd thee; as our version renders the words, they seem to be the same with that, ver. 41. After all God's judgments poured forth, such shou'd be their condition and state, they shou'd be so poor and despis'd, they neither shou'd have opportunity, nor ability to please their Idolatrous and Adulterous companions.

Marginal references: chap. [illegible: 1 letter].[illegible: 1 letter] ▪ and 11.2[illegible: 1 letter]. and 22.31.