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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 16:5

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Ezekiel16:5

5 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field to the loathing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

A confirmation of what was said verse 4. no hand helpt, because no eye pitied them, neither Terahs family to Abraham, nor the Aegyptians to sojourning or departing Israel, shewed any bowels of pity to help.

Though all those particulars toward an infant had not been done, if the more needful were done, it might be well enough, but poor infant, it hears of no body to do any one of them for its health and life.

To shew any tenderness of heart towards it.

Put out of doors, exposed to perish and starve with hunger and cold.

As far from likelihood of relief as from the sight of men, not laid in the street of City or Town, not at some mans door, but in the open wide field, where devouring wild beasts are likest to come first and tear the helpless wretch to pieces.

In contempt of thee as unlovely, and worthless; and in abhorrence of thee as loathsome, putrifying, and offensive to the beholder.

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