Ezekiel 16:39
New International Version
Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewelry and leave you stark naked.

New Living Translation
Then I will give you to these many nations who are your lovers, and they will destroy you. They will knock down your pagan shrines and the altars to your idols. They will strip you and take your beautiful jewels, leaving you stark naked.

English Standard Version
And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

New King James Version
I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

New American Standard Bible
I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

NASB 1995
“I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

NASB 1977
“I shall also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will pull down your shrines, tear down your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your splendid jewelry, and will leave you naked and bare.

Amplified Bible
I will also hand you over to your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and they will leave you naked and bare.

Christian Standard Bible
I will hand you over to them, and they will demolish your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will hand you over to them, and they will level your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.

American Standard Version
I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall deliver you into their hands, and they shall destroy the houses of your vaults, and they shall tear down your idols and they shall strip off your clothes, and they shall take the garments of your glory and they shall leave you naked

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thine high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.

Contemporary English Version
Then I will hand you over to your lovers, who will tear down the places where you had sex. They will take your clothes and jewelry, leaving you naked and empty-handed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace.

English Revised Version
I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels: and they shall leave thee naked and bare.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I will hand you over to your lovers. They will destroy your platforms and tear down your illegal worship sites. They will tear off your clothes, take away your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

Good News Translation
I will put you in their power, and they will tear down the places where you engage in prostitution and worship idols. They will take away your clothes and jewels and leave you completely naked.

International Standard Version
"I'll also deliver you into their control, and they'll break down your mounds, tear down your high places, strip off your clothes, remove your fine jewels, and then they'll leave you stark naked!

JPS Tanakh 1917
I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.

Literal Standard Version
And I have given you into their hand, | And they have thrown down your arch, | And they have broken down your high places, | And they have stripped you of your garments, | And they have taken your beautiful vessels, | And they have left you naked and bare.

Majority Standard Bible
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.

New American Bible
I will hand you over to them to tear down your platform and demolish your high place, to strip you of your garments and take away your splendid ornaments, leaving you stark naked.

NET Bible
I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

New Revised Standard Version
I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall throw down your platform and break down your lofty places; they shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful objects and leave you naked and bare.

New Heart English Bible
I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

World English Bible
I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare.

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Context
Judgment on Jerusalem
38And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy. 39Then 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. 40They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.…

Cross References
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 will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

Ezekiel 16:24
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.

Ezekiel 23:26
They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

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.


Treasury of Scripture

And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bore.

And I.

they shall throw

Ezekiel 16:24,25,31
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street…

Ezekiel 7:22-24
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it…

Isaiah 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

shall strip

Ezekiel 16:10-20
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk…

Ezekiel 23:26,29
They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels…

Isaiah 3:16-24
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: …

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Ezekiel 16
1. Under the parable of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem
6. God's extraordinary love toward her,
15. Her grievous judgment
35. Her sin, equal to her mother,
46. and exceeding her sisters, Sodom and Samaria,
59. calls for judgments
60. Mercy is promised her in the end














(39) Eminent places.--See Note on Ezekiel 16:24. The destruction of her idolatries as well as the desolation of Israel herself is foretold.

Verse 39. - (For eminent place and high place, see notes on ver. 24.) These the Chaldean conqueror treated as local sanctuaries, and laid them waste. The clothes and the jewels are, of course, all outward tokens of stateliness and prosperity. The (or a) holy city, the perfection of beauty, should be as "some forlorn and desperate castaway" (comp. Lamentations 1:1-10 for a companion picture).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then I will hand you over
וְנָתַתִּ֨י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

to [your lovers],
בְּיָדָ֗ם (bə·yā·ḏām)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3027: A hand

and they will level
וְהָרְס֤וּ (wə·hā·rə·sū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2040: To pull down, in pieces, break, & destroy

your mounds
גַבֵּךְ֙ (ḡab·bêḵ)
Noun - common singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 1354: The back, the top, rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks

and tear down
וְנִתְּצ֣וּ (wə·nit·tə·ṣū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5422: To pull down, break down

your lofty shrines.
רָמֹתַ֔יִךְ (rā·mō·ṯa·yiḵ)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 7413: Height, high place

They will strip off
וְהִפְשִׁ֤יטוּ (wə·hip̄·šî·ṭū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6584: To strip off, make a dash, raid

your clothes,
בְּגָדַ֔יִךְ (bə·ḡā·ḏa·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

take
וְלָקְח֖וּ (wə·lā·qə·ḥū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 3947: To take

your fine
תִפְאַרְתֵּ֑ךְ (ṯip̄·’ar·têḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8597: Beauty, glory

jewelry,
כְּלֵ֣י (kə·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

and leave you
וְהִנִּיח֖וּךְ (wə·hin·nî·ḥūḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3240: Bestow, cast down, lay down, up, leave off, let alone remain, pacify, place,

naked
עֵירֹ֥ם (‘ê·rōm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5903: Naked, nakedness

and bare.
וְעֶרְיָֽה׃ (wə·‘er·yāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6181: Nakedness


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