that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
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that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
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That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
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that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 16:54 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 14:22-23 Yet, behold, there will be left a remnant in it that will be carried out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they will come out to you, and you will see their way and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought on it. They will comfort you, when you see their way and their doings; then you will know that I have not done all that I have done in it without cause,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
- Ezekiel 16:52 You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
- Ezekiel 16:63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
- Ezekiel 36:31-32 “ ‘ “Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations. I don’t do this for your sake,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Let it be known to you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, house of Israel.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain Hence we gather from the last verse, that God…
Hence we gather from the last verse, that God gave the Jews no hope of safety, but rather confirms their utter destruction, so that no future safety was to be hoped for. For he says, that you may bear thy reproach and become ashamed, namely, because they had sinned grievously, as I have said before, and had not repented of their wickedness. He adds, in consoling them. He speaks after the ordinary manner of men, since the miserable feel some consolation in seeing themselves perish among a great multitude. This then is the consolation of which the Prophet speaks, not that the sorrow of Sodom and Samaria was mitigated when they saw the Jews joined to themselves, but, as I have said, God adopts the common language of men. It follows —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain In that thou hast showed thyself worse than they…
In that thou hast showed thyself worse than they and yet thoughtest to escape punishment.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame,…
Eze 16:54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
Ver. 54. In that thou art a comfort unto them.] Eze 14:22. Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris; to have companions in misery is some kind of comfort.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou mayest; thou shalt, so the Hebrew, as well…
Thou mayest; thou shalt, so the Hebrew, as well as mayest.
Shame; punishment for offences is ever reproachful, and some punishments are more so than others. Such shall the Jews’ punishments be.
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Confounded; some offenders are hardened to an insensibleness of shame, but God will make these Jews to feel the smart, and blush under the shame of their punishments.
In all that thou hast done; for all the wickednesses from which the punishments of Sodom and Samaria should have deterred them, for imitating and outdoing them.
A comfort; encouraging sinners like those of Sodom and Samaria, and being fellow sufferers with them in as great, or greater, judgments.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When thy sisters, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return…
When thy sisters, Sodom, and her daughters, shall return to their former estate,.... The Jews, as Jerom says, are of opinion, that in the days of their vainly expected Messiah Sodom will be restored to its ancient state, and be as the garden of God, and as the land of Egypt; and Jarchi interprets the bringing again the captivity of Sodom, in Eze 16:53; by the Lord's healing the land of brimstone and salt, and placing inhabitants in it; and it is asserted by the Jews (f) that Sodom and Gomorrah shall be rebuilt in future times, in the times of the Messiah, according to the sense of this passage: but this is not to be understood in a literal sense, of the rebuilding of Sodom and cities adjacent, and of restoring them to their former fruitfulness and fertility, and of the inhabitants to their former prosperity, and much less to their former state of wickedness; but spiritually, of the conversion of Gentile sinners to their ancient and happy estate in Christ:
and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; to the knowledge of the Messiah, and the pure worship of God:
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then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate; the conversion of Judah, and of Israel or the ten tribes, here meant by Samaria, is frequently prophesied of, as what will be at the same time, Jer 23:6.
(f) Shemot Rabba, sect. 15. fol. 101. 3.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain A comfort - Encouraging sinners like those of Sodom…
A comfort - Encouraging sinners like those of Sodom and Samaria.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thou art a comfort unto them - The degradation…
Thou art a comfort unto them - The degradation of Judah would be a kind of consolation to others. Compare Isa. 14.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Them. It affords some consolation to have partners in…
Them. It affords some consolation to have partners in misery. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain bear thine own shame--by being put on a level…
bear thine own shame--by being put on a level with those whom thou hast so much despised.
thou art a comfort unto them--since they see thee as miserable as themselves. It is a kind of melancholy "comfort" to those chastised to see others as sorely punished as themselves (Eze 14:22-23).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 54. Mayest be confounded in all — Literally, mayest…
54. Mayest be confounded in all — Literally, mayest be shamed for all. (See Eze_16:52.) Jerusalem will be ashamed since her superfluity of wickedness can comfort such people as the Sodomites and Samaritans with the idea that they are not very wicked, after all.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 54. Read: “that thou mayest bear thy shame, and…
54. Read: “that thou mayest bear thy shame, and be ashamed because of all that thou hast done in comforting them.” Jerusalem “comforted” Samaria and Sodom in surpassing them in wickedness, and causing them to feel less their own guilt, as also in causing their restoration.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (54) Art a comfort unto them.—Compare what was said…
(54) Art a comfort unto them.—Compare what was said of justifying them in Eze_16:51-52. The greater sin of Judah became a comfort by throwing their own evil into the shade.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Even in that restoration, however, there should be a…
Even in that restoration, however, there should be a further clement of humiliation. Judah should be a comfort. (see Eze_14:22) to those who should see her placed lower than themselves, content, at last, to lake the lowest place, humbling herself that she might be (ver. 61) afterwards exalted.
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