40 They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.
40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
40 They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
40 they'll call for a mass meeting. The mob will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.
40 They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
40 They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:40
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58
(Read Ezekiel 16:1-58)
In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.