47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.
47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
47 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
47 Haven't you lived just like they did? Haven't you engaged in outrageous obscenities just like they did? In fact, it didn't take you long to catch up and pass them!
47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
47 But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption.
11 The Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel is more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
11 And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
11 And the Lord said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
11 Then God told me, "Fickle Israel was a good sight better than flighty Judah.
11 Then the Lord said to me, "Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
11 Then the Lord said to me, "Even faithless Israel is less guilty than treacherous Judah!
(Read Jeremiah 3:6-11)
If we mark the crimes of those who break off from a religious profession, and the consequences, we see abundant reason to shun evil ways. It is dreadful to be proved more criminal than those who have actually perished in their sins; yet it will be small comfort in everlasting punishment, for them to know that others were viler than they.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:47
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.