George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 23:34
Fragments, as drunkards sometimes bite (Haydock) the cup in their rage. --- Rend. What had been the occasion of thy fall: (Calmet) pectori planxi. (Ovid, ep. 5.)
Fragments, as drunkards sometimes bite (Haydock) the cup in their rage. --- Rend. What had been the occasion of thy fall: (Calmet) pectori planxi. (Ovid, ep. 5.)
Verse Ezekiel 23:34. _THOU SHALT - PLUCK OFF THINE OWN BREASTS_] Thou shalt _tear them_; a frequent action in extreme sorrow and desolation. _Weeping, tearing the bosom, and beating the breasts_. Tun...
In Ezekiel 23:1 Samaria and Jerusalem are called two sisters, Aholah and Aholibah, in their ungodly relation with Assyria and Chaldea. Aholah means “her tent.” Aholibah, “my tent is in her.” The latte...
EZEKIEL 23. FATAL ALLIANCE WITH FOREIGNERS. This is the third and last of the three great indictments (Ezekiel 16, 20) which draw their material from the past rather than (as Ezekiel 22) from the pres...
BREAK: or, gnaw, lest. drop should be lost. PLUCK OFF. tear out: i.e. destroy the occasions of their idolatry. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
Cf. Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 51:17. _break the sheards_ GNAW the sherds. The act of plucking out her own breasts is that of one intoxicated to madness, Jeremiah 25:16. The words are wanting in LXX. Beating...
AND PLUCK OFF THINE OWN BREASTS— _And shalt tear thy breasts._ Houbigant....
D. The Punishment of Jerusalem 23:22-35 TRANSLATION (22) Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: Behold I am about to stir up your lovers against you, those from whom your soul is alienated, a...
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. THOU SHALT BREAK THE SHERDS THEREOF - s...
THE UNCHASTE SISTERS, OHOLAH AND OHOLIBAH The idolatries and foreign alliances of Jerusalem and Samaria are here described under the same strong figure which is used in Ezekiel 16. Oholah (Samaria) an...
PLUCK off] RV 'tear.'...
EZEKIEL: ‘THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD’ THE *SIN OF JUDAH AND THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 1 TO 24 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 23 * The *Lord had made special promises to *Israel. Those...
וְ שָׁתִ֨ית אֹותָ֜הּ וּ מָצִ֗ית וְ אֶת
OHOLA AND OHOLIBAH Ezekiel 23:1 THE allegory of chapter 23 adds hardly any new thought to those which have already, been expounded in connection with chapter 16 and chapter 20. The ideas which enter...
The next prophecy dealt with the sins of Samaria and Jerusalem under the figures of two women, Oholah and Oholibah. The prophet first described their sins. Samaria was charged with unfaithfulness in h...
The Reader will enter into the beauties of this Chapter, and the design of it also, if he takes with him the consideration all the way along as he reads it, that the whole scope of the Chapter is to s...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22 AND 23. Chapter 22 recapitulates the sin of Jerusalem, of her prophets, her priests, and her princes. The eye of God sought for some one to stand in the ga...
THOU SHALT EVEN DRINK IT, AND SUCK IT OUT,.... The very dregs of it, that which lies at the bottom, which is the most nauseous and the most pernicious; not through love to it, but through force, shall...
_Thou shalt even drink it and suck [it] out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 34. _And thou shalt break the...
_Therefore will I give her cup_, &c. I will make thee drink the same bitter draught, or experience the same calamity that has fallen upon her. God's judgments are often compared to a cup of intoxicati...
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, so that she would feel the full effect of its bitterness, AND THOU SHALT BREAK THE SHERDS THEREOF, gnawing them in a sort of passion to feel the fullness of G...
The Lord's Punishment upon the two Kingdoms...
THOU SHALT EVEN DRINK IT; nothing shall divert the punishment. AND SUCK IT OUT; the dregs shalt thou drink, and multiply thine own sorrows. BREAK THE SHERDS; either out of indignation, or to suck out...
Ezekiel 23:34 drink H8354 (H8804) drain H4680 (H8804) break H1633 (H8762) shards H2789 tear H5423 ...
“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your sister's cup you will drink, Deep and large, You will be laughed at and derided, It contains much. Drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled with, A cup of waste...
CONTENTS: Parable of Aholah and Aholibah. Sentence passed upon Judah. CHARACTERS: Ezekiel, Aholah, Aholibah. CONCLUSION: Whatever creature we dote upon we make an idol of, and what we make an idol o...
Ezekiel 23:2. _There were two women, the daughters of one mother._ Samaria and Jerusalem, cities introduced in the female character, as in Ezekiel 23:10; Ezekiel 23:48....
_Samaria is Aholah and Jerusalem Aholibah._ AHOLAH AND AHOLIBAH I. Sin is self-polluting and therefore self-destroying. Constant contact with sin will pollute the conscience, and render it powerless...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:1 The allegory of the unfaithful sisters parallels ch. Ezekiel 16:1. Jerusalem’s destruction is depicted as yet more just and certain in light of the judgment that befell he
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 23:32 Two further THUS SAYS introductions frame the final outcomes. The CUP (see v. Ezekiel 23:31) i
(Ezekiel 23:22.) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The transgression of Jerusalem is followed by her punishment. Ezekiel 23:23. “PEKOD, AND SHOA, AND KOA.” “From the circumstance that these names occur in immediate...
EXPOSITION After another pause, the prophet enters on another elaborate parallel, after the pattern of Ezekiel 16:1; but with a marked variation. There we have the history of one harlot, _s.c. _of Isr...
Now in chapter 23: The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying, Son of man there were two women, who were the daughters of one mother: Now they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whored...
Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 23:8; Isaiah 51:17; Psalms 75:8; Revelation 18:7
Thou — Shalt stagger with sorrows, that shall intoxicate, and astonish. Suck it out — The dregs shalt thou drink, and multiply thine own sorrows. Break the sheards — To suck out what remains. And pluc...