58 You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the Lord.
58 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
58 But you have to face it, to accept the shame of your obscene and vile life. Decree of God, the Master.
58 You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations," says the Lord.
58 This is your punishment for all your lewdness and detestable sins, says the Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:58
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.