Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 16:22
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood.
22. So absorbed was Jerusalem in her infidelities that she remembered nothing of her early history, “the shame of her youth,” nor the compassion shewed her by Jehovah. On “polluted” cf. Eze 16:6.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Thou wast so intent upon and delighted in thy lewd courses, thou never thoughtest what once thou wast, or what again thou mightest be.
In all thine abominations, both corporal and spiritual.
Thy whoredoms: this is the same thing charged thus on her, because she would not consider, or lay it to heart.
Thou hast not remembered; thou hast utterly forgotten; it is a form of speech that contains more than the words seem to have in them, she had forgotten herself and her God.
Thy youth; the misery and loathsomeness of thy birth, which is expressed very elegantly.
1. Naked, as contemptible as poverty could make her.
2. Nay, she was nakedness itself, as the word will bear, exposed to all the suffering that can befall such poor helpless wretches.
3. Bleeding to death in a most loathsome, defiled condition, that none would come near her: but, ungrateful, she forgot all.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
22. not remembered . . .youthForgetfulness of God’s love is the source of all sins.Israel forgot her deliverance by God in the infancy of her nationallife. See Eze 16:43, to whichEze 16:60 forms a lovelycontrast (Jer 2:2; Hos 11:1).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms,…. Or idolatries, which were abominable to God, and were many; of which that just mentioned was not one of the least:
thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth; the destitute and forlorn condition then in, and what favours were then bestowed:
when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood;
[See comments on Eze 16:6];
[See comments on Eze 16:7]; which is mentioned to upbraid the Jews with their ingratitude; they forgetting the miserable condition they were in in Egypt, and what great things the Lord had done for them in bringing them out from thence, and the obligations they were laid under to him: and yet, after all this, to commit such abominable iniquities, and in the midst of them all never once call to mind what they had received from him; which might have been a check to their idolatries, but so it was not.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Here God accommodates to his own ends what he has hitherto related, namely, the extreme wickedness and baseness of the people’s ingratitude in thus prostituting themselves to idols. Hence he recalls to mind their condition when he espoused them. For if the wretched slavery from which they had been delivered had been present to their mind, they had not been so blinded with perverse confidence, nor had they exulted in their lasciviousness. But since they had forgotten all God’s benefits, they became lascivious, and prostrated themselves to foul idolatries, and provoked God in every way. Now the Prophet proves this when he says, behold, through these abominations the people did not remember their youth. Whence happens it that impure and lustful women thus despise their husbands, unless through being blinded by their own beauty? And since they do not recognize their own disgrace, they please themselves in foul loves, as says the Prophet Hosea, (Hos 2:5.) Such then was the self-confidence of the, Jews, that they pleased themselves by their beauty and ornaments: though God’s glory and brightness shone forth in them, yet they did not perceive the source of their dignity; and hence the addition of ingratitude to pride. You have not remembered, says he, the days of thy youth, when you was naked, and bare, and defiled in thy blood. It follows —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
“And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and were weltering in your blood.”
He referred them back to what had been their miserable condition. He pointed out how they had forgotten the past, and what He had done for them, and what they owed to God. It was clearly stated in the covenant. ‘I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” but they had overlooked the fact. How easy it is to forget God’s faithfulness and goodness to us when things are going well. See especially the warning in Deu 6:10-12.
‘All your abominations and your whoredoms.’ In their case it was their idols which concentrated their minds on earthly things and behaviour, together with the sensual rites and accompanying unrestrained lust. In our case, although we may not erect idols, we have our own gods; singers, footballers, sportsmen, Mammon, Sex and Greed. These too take our minds from God and have become far more to us than they should.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood.
Ver. 22. Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth. ] Hence all thy haughtiness and hauntiness. We should often say, as that noble Iphicrates the Athenian once did, E , From how small to how great matters hath the Lord raised me!
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
abominations. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for that which Jehovah abominated,
polluted = wallowing, or weltering.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Eze 16:3-7, Eze 16:43, Eze 16:60-63, Jer 2:2, Hos 2:3, Hos 11:1
Reciprocal: 1Ki 11:8 – all his strange wives Isa 54:4 – thou shalt forget Eze 16:7 – whereas Eze 23:3 – in their Eze 23:19 – in calling Hos 2:15 – as in the days
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 16:22. Ingratitude is condemned very severely in the Bible (Jdg 8:34; 2Ch 24:22; Isa 51:13; Jer 2:32; Jer 23:27; Rom 1:21; 2Ti 2:3). The corrupt interests this wife had acquired turned her into an ingrate of the worst kind, in view of the lowly and helpless condition from which her husband had raised her.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
Furthermore, Jerusalem forgot about her humble origins and that she owed her very existence to Yahweh.
"Many believers today tend to forget what Christ has done for them on the cross and all the blessings he has poured out on them (Eph 1:3)." [Note: Alexander, "Ezekiel," pp. 813-14.]