Ezekiel 23:48Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And I will take away wickedness out of the land: and all women shall learn, not to do according to the wickedness of them.
Douay-Rheims

וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֥י זִמָּ֖ה מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְנִֽוַּסְּרוּ֙ כָּל־הַנָּשִׁ֔ים וְלֹ֥א תַעֲשֶׂ֖ינָה כְּזִמַּתְכֶֽנָה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

After enduring these trials, they will be handed over to stones, swords, and flames; at that moment, every city will gain insight, understanding the consequences of evil. Furthermore, God once again referred to the cities as wives.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

2 Pet 2:6And reducing the cities of the Sodomites and of the Gomorrhites into ashes, condemned them to be overthrown, making them an example to those that should after act wickedly,
Ezek 23:27And I will put an end to thy wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor remember Egypt any more.
Ezek 16:41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.
Ezek 6:6In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.
Ezek 5:15And thou shalt be a reproach, and a scoff, an example, and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger, and in indignation, and in wrathful rebukes.
Ezek 22:15And I will disperse thee in the nations, and will scatter thee among the countries, and I will put an end to thy uncleanness in thee.
Zeph 1:3I will gather man, and beast, I will gather the birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea: and the ungodly shall meet with ruin: and I will destroy men from off the face of the land, saith the Lord.
Ezek 36:25And I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness, and I will cleanse you from all your idols.