Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
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Thus you called to memory the lewdness of your youth, in the caressing of your nipples by the Egyptians because of your youthful breasts.
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Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
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Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when they from Egypt bruised thy breasts for the bosom of thy youth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness…
Eze 23:21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
Ver. 21. Thus thou calledst to remembrance.] See Eze 23:19.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Calledst to remembrance: see Eze 23:19.
Calledst to remembrance: see Eze 23:19.
The lewdness of thy youth: Eze 23:3.
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The paps of thy youth; the beauty and loveliness of them, when God had formed them, allured the Egyptians: this may be understood both politically, of the growing state of the Jewish commonwealth, or literally, of the beauty of their young women.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy…
Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth,.... By committing the same; the same idolatries their fathers committed in Egypt they now committed, being in alliance with the same people: or,
thou causest to be visited the lewdness of thy youth (a); by the Lord, who remembered their sins, and punished them for them:
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in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth: committing spiritual fornication, that is, idolatry with them; signified by pressing and bruising the breasts and paps of virgins, by corporeal fornication with them.
(a) "et visitasti scelus adolescestiae, vel pueritiae tuae", Piscator, Starckius; i.e. "visitari fecisti a Deo", a Lapide.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain calledst to remembrance--"didst repeat" [MAURER].
calledst to remembrance--"didst repeat" [MAURER].
in bruising--in suffering . . . to be bruised.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. Calledst to remembrance — Rather, soughtest after, renewed.…
21. Calledst to remembrance — Rather, soughtest after, renewed. In bruising, etc. — Rather, when they of Egypt did bruise thy teats, for to press the breasts of thy youth. (See Eze_23:3.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. calledst to remembrance] didst recall, i.e. renew, cf.…
21. calledst to remembrance] didst recall, i.e. renew, cf. Eze_38:8.
for the paps] By a slight change of reading (k for n), when thy teats were bruised by them of Egypt, when the breasts of thy youth were pressed (Eze_23:3).
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