Ezekiel 23:29
New International Version
They will deal with you in hatred and take away everything you have worked for. They will leave you stark naked, and the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your lewdness and promiscuity

New Living Translation
They will treat you with hatred and rob you of all you own, leaving you stark naked. The shame of your prostitution will be exposed to all the world.

English Standard Version
and they shall deal with you in hatred and take away all the fruit of your labor and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoring shall be uncovered. Your lewdness and your whoring

Berean Standard Bible
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

King James Bible
And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

New King James Version
They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.

New American Standard Bible
They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your prostitution will be exposed, both your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.

NASB 1995
‘They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

NASB 1977
‘And they will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

Legacy Standard Bible
They will deal with you in hatred, take all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

Amplified Bible
They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your depravity will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your obscene practices.

Christian Standard Bible
They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your depravity and promiscuity.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will treat you with hatred, take all you have worked for, and leave you stark naked, so that the shame of your debauchery will be exposed, both your indecency and promiscuity.

American Standard Version
and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

Contemporary English Version
They will cruelly take away everything you have worked for and strip you naked. Then everyone will see you for the prostitute you really are. Your own vulgar sins

English Revised Version
and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will treat you hatefully and take away everything that you have worked for. They will leave you naked and bare. The shame of your prostitution will be revealed.

Good News Translation
And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution

International Standard Version
They'll deal with you with hatred. They'll take away your productivity, leaving you naked and defenseless, so that the nakedness of your sexual immorality will be uncovered—your licentious sexual immorality.

Majority Standard Bible
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

NET Bible
They will treat you with hatred, take away all you have labored for, and leave you naked and bare. Your nakedness will be exposed, just as when you engaged in prostitution and obscene conduct.

New Heart English Bible
and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they shall treat thee with hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy prostitutions shall be disclosed, both thy lewdness and thy prostitutions.

World English Bible
They will deal with you in hatred, and will take away all your labor, and will leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your prostitution will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And they have dealt with you in hatred, "" And they have taken all your labor, "" And they have left you naked and bare, "" And the nakedness of your whoredoms has been revealed, "" And the wickedness of your whoredoms.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have dealt with thee in hatred, And they have taken all thy labour, And they have left thee naked and bare, And revealed hath been the nakedness of thy whoredoms, And the wickedness of thy whoredoms.

Smith's Literal Translation
And they did with thee in hatred, and they took all thy labor, and they left thee naked and nakedness: and the nakedness of thy fornication was uncovered, and thy wickedness and thy fornications.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and they shall take away all thy labours, and shall let thee go naked, and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of thy fornication shall be discovered, thy wickedness, and thy fornications.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And they will act toward you with hatred, and they will take away all your labors, and they will send you away naked and filled with disgrace. And the shame of your fornication will be revealed: your crimes and your fornications.

New American Bible
They shall treat you with hatred, seizing all that you worked for and leaving you stark naked, so that your indecent nakedness is exposed. Your depravity and prostitution

New Revised Standard Version
and they shall deal with you in hatred, and take away all the fruit of your labor, and leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whorings shall be exposed. Your lewdness and your whorings
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And they shall deal with you with hate, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare, and the nakedness of your whoredoms and your iniquities shall be uncovered.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And they shall strike you in their hatred, and they shall take all your labor and they shall leave you naked and cold, and the nakedness of your fornication and of your evil shall be revealed
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy harlotries shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy harlotries.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of thy labours and thy toils, and thou shalt be naked and bare: and the shame of thy fornication shall be exposed: and thy ungodliness and thy fornication

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Oholibah to Be Plagued
28For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust. 29They 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 30have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 13:26
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

Hosea 2:10
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

Nahum 3:5
“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”

Jeremiah 4:30
And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Micah 1:11
Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.

Isaiah 3:17
the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.”

Jeremiah 22:22
The wind will drive away all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness.

Isaiah 20:4
so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

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.

Revelation 18:7-8
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Revelation 3:17
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.

Matthew 23:28
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.


Treasury of Scripture

And they shall deal with you hatefully, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bore: and the nakedness of your prostitutions shall be discovered, both your lewdness and your prostitutions.

deal

Ezekiel 23:25,26,45-47
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire…

Ezekiel 16:39
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.

Deuteronomy 28:47-51
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; …

the nakedness

Ezekiel 23:18
So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister.

Ezekiel 16:36,37
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; …

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Ezekiel 23
1. The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah
23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
45. and shows their judgments














They will treat you with hatred
This phrase reflects the consequences of Israel's unfaithfulness to God, as depicted through the allegory of two sisters representing Samaria and Jerusalem. The hatred from foreign nations, particularly the Babylonians, is a result of Israel's alliances and idolatry. Historically, these alliances were often political and involved adopting foreign religious practices, which led to God's judgment. This hatred can be seen as a fulfillment of the warnings given in Deuteronomy 28:37, where disobedience would lead to becoming an object of scorn.

take all for which you have worked
The loss of possessions and wealth signifies the stripping away of what Israel had gained through its alliances and efforts. This reflects the futility of relying on human strength and foreign powers instead of God. The historical context includes the Babylonian conquest, where Jerusalem was plundered, and its treasures taken (2 Kings 24:13). This serves as a reminder of the transient nature of worldly wealth and the importance of spiritual fidelity.

and leave you naked and bare
Nakedness in the Bible often symbolizes shame and exposure of sin (Genesis 3:7, Isaiah 47:3). Here, it represents the complete humiliation and vulnerability of Israel due to its spiritual adultery. The imagery of being left naked underscores the totality of judgment and the removal of any pretense of dignity or protection, as seen in the Babylonian exile.

so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed
This phrase highlights the public exposure of Israel's idolatry and unfaithfulness, likened to prostitution. The prophetic language used by Ezekiel is intended to shock and bring awareness to the gravity of Israel's sin. The exposure serves as a divine judgment, revealing the consequences of forsaking God for other deities, as warned in Hosea 2:10.

Your indecency and promiscuity
Indecency and promiscuity refer to Israel's spiritual infidelity and the worship of foreign gods. This behavior is condemned throughout the prophetic books, where idolatry is equated with adultery (Jeremiah 3:6-9). The historical context includes the adoption of Canaanite religious practices, which were often sexually immoral. This phrase serves as a call to repentance and a return to covenant faithfulness, emphasizing the need for purity and devotion to God alone.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Ezekiel
A prophet in the Old Testament, Ezekiel was called by God to deliver messages of judgment and hope to the Israelites during their exile in Babylon.

2. Oholah and Oholibah
Symbolic names for Samaria and Jerusalem, representing the Northern and Southern Kingdoms of Israel, respectively. They are depicted as sisters who engage in spiritual adultery through idolatry and alliances with foreign nations.

3. Babylonian Exile
The historical context of Ezekiel's prophecies, where the Israelites were taken captive by the Babylonians as a consequence of their unfaithfulness to God.

4. Idolatry
The central sin addressed in this passage, where Israel's spiritual unfaithfulness is likened to prostitution.

5. Judgment
The event of divine retribution that God declares through Ezekiel, where the consequences of Israel's actions are laid bare.
Teaching Points
The Consequences of Idolatry
Idolatry leads to spiritual and physical ruin. Just as Israel faced judgment, we must be vigilant against modern forms of idolatry that can lead us away from God.

God's Righteous Judgment
God's judgment is just and serves as a warning to return to Him. Understanding His righteousness should lead us to repentance and a renewed commitment to faithfulness.

The Call to Spiritual Faithfulness
The imagery of prostitution and exposure calls us to examine our own lives for areas of unfaithfulness. We are called to be spiritually pure and devoted to God alone.

The Hope of Restoration
While the passage speaks of judgment, it also implies the possibility of restoration. God's discipline is meant to bring His people back to Him, offering hope for renewal.Verse 29. - All thy labor; sc. all the results of labor, all thy wealth.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They will treat
וְעָשׂ֨וּ (wə·‘ā·śū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

you with hatred,
בְּשִׂנְאָ֗ה (bə·śin·’āh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8135: Hating, hatred

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

all for which
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

you have worked,
יְגִיעֵ֔ךְ (yə·ḡî·‘êḵ)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3018: Toil, a work, produce, property

and leave you
וַעֲזָב֖וּךְ (wa·‘ă·zā·ḇūḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit

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

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

so that the shame
עֶרְוַ֣ת (‘er·waṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6172: Nakedness

of your prostitution
זְנוּנַ֔יִךְ (zə·nū·na·yiḵ)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2183: Adultery, idolatry

will be exposed.
וְנִגְלָה֙ (wə·niḡ·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

Your indecency
וְזִמָּתֵ֖ךְ (wə·zim·mā·ṯêḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 2154: A plan, device, wickedness

and promiscuity
וְתַזְנוּתָֽיִךְ׃ (wə·ṯaz·nū·ṯā·yiḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 8457: Harlotry, idolatry


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