32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
32 " 'You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!
32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
32 "'Wives who are unfaithful to their husbands accept gifts from their lovers.
32 You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
32 Yes, you are an adulterous wife who takes in strangers instead of her own husband.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:32
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.