Ezekiel 23:43Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And I said to her that was worn out in her adulteries: Now will this woman still continue in her fornication.
Douay-Rheims

וָאֹמַ֕ר לַבָּלָ֖ה נִֽאוּפִ֑ים עת עַתָּ֛ה יזנה יִזְנ֥וּ תַזְנוּתֶ֖הָ וָהִֽיא׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

I questioned, “Should you engage in adultery in these matters? The actions of the unfaithful and the unfaithful one herself, that is, by employing the Prophets as instruments, I warned you about the audacity of committing infidelity with lifeless objects, and that your efforts are indeed adulterous.”

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Jer 13:23If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.
Dan 9:16O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.
Ezek 23:3And they committed fornication in Egypt, in their youth they committed fornication: there were their breasts pressed down, and the teats of their virginity were bruised.
Ezra 9:7From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we and our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day.
Ps 106 (105):6