Ezekiel 23:34

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
drink	וְשָׁתִ֨ית ve.sha.Tit	H8354	to imbibe (literally or figuratively) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person feminine singular
out	וּמָצִ֗ית u.ma.Tzit	H4680	to suck out · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 2nd person feminine singular
break	תְּגָרֵ֖מִי te.ga.Re.mi	H1633	(causative) to bone · verb, piel imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular
sherds	חֲרָשֶׂ֛יהָ cha.ra.Sei.ha	H2789	a piece of pottery · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
off	תְּנַתֵּ֑קִי te.na.Te.ki	H5423	to tear off · verb, piel imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular
breasts	וְשָׁדַ֣יִךְ ve.sha.Da.yikh	H7699	the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging) · conjunction + noun, common masculine dual construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
spoken	דִבַּ֔רְתִּי di.Bar.ti	H1696	perhaps properly · verb, piel perfect, 1st person common singular
saith	נְאֻ֖ם ne.'Um	H5002	an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
Lord	אֲדֹנָ֥י 'a.do.Nai	H136	the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) · proper noun, a title
GOD	יְהוִֽה Yah.weh	H3069	YHWH · proper noun, a title

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Psalms 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereo…
Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of…
Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the…
Ezekiel 23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and po…
Revelation 18:7 How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jerusalem stands indicted by the name of Aholibah, for that she, as a false traitor to her sovereign Lord the God of heaven, not having his fear before her eyes, but moved by the instigation of the devil, had revolted from her allegiance to him, had compassed and imagined to shake off his government, had kept up a correspondence had joined in confederacy with his enemies, and the pretenders to a deity, in contempt of his crown and dignity. To this indictment she has pleaded, Not guilty: I am not polluted; I have not gone after Baalim. But it is found against her by the notorious evidence of the fact, and she stands convicted of it, nor has any thing material to offer why judgment should not…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:34

break . . . sherds--So greedily shalt thou suck out every drop like one drinking to madness (the effect invariably ascribed to drinking God's cup of wrath, Jer 51:7; Hab 2:16) that thou shalt crunch the very shreds of it; that is, there shall be no evil left which thou shalt not taste. pluck off thine own breasts--enraged against them as the ministers to thine adultery.

Adam Clarke on 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. Tunc vero rupique sinus, et pectora planxi. Ovid's Ep. 5.

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:34

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 be obliged to it; see Psalm 75:8, and thou shall break the sherds thereof; and suck them, so that not a drop of the liquor shall be lost; even what has penetrated into the earthen vessel, which this cup is supposed to be; and therefore it shall be broken to pieces, and these pieces sucked, that all may be got out; suggesting that there will be no abatement of the punishment, it shall be endured to the utmost: or it may be an allusion to drunkards, who, having drunk up their liquor, and become…

Dictionary and topics

Aholah And Aholibah — (my tabernacle) two symbolical names, are described as harlots, the former representing Samaria and the latter Judah. Ezek. 23.
Assyria · The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of — The Jews condemned for following the idolatries of
Cup · .Of — .Of
Drunkenness · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Idolatry · .Licentiousness of — .Licentiousness of

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Ezekiel 23:34

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:34

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 23:34

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:34

Dictionary and topics

Ezekiel 23:34

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:22–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 23:34

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 23:34

John Gill on Ezekiel 23:34

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 23:22-35

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 23:31-34

Rashi on Ezekiel 23:34