Ezequiel 16:13

Almeida Revista e Atualizada

Assim, foste ornada de ouro e prata; o teu vestido era de linho fino, de seda e de bordados; nutriste-te de flor de farinha, de mel e azeite; eras formosa em extremo e chegaste a ser rainha.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
E assim foste ornada de ouro e prata, e o teu vestido foi de linho fino, e de seda e de bordados; nutriste-te de flor de farinha, e mel e azeite; e foste formosa em extremo, e foste prspera, at chegares a realeza.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E assim foste ornada de ouro e prata, e a tua veste foi de linho fino, e de seda, e bordadura; nutriste-te de flor de farinha, e de mel, e de leo; e foste formosa em extremo e foste prspera, at chegares a ser rainha.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou didst: Ezekiel 16:19, Deuteronomy 8:8, Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:14, Psalms 45:13, Psalms 45:14, Psalms 81:16, Psalms 147:14, Hosea 2:5

and thou wast: Ezekiel 16:14, Ezekiel 16:15, Psalms 48:2, Psalms 50:2, Isaiah 64:11, Jeremiah 13:20

and thou didst: Genesis 17:6, 1 Samuel 12:12, 2 Samuel 8:15, 1 Kings 4:21, Ezra 4:20, Ezra 5:11, Psalms 50:2, Lamentations 2:15

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 6:4 - beautiful Ezekiel 16:10 - broidered Ezekiel 23:40 - and deckedst Luke 16:19 - purple

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver,.... The Targum interprets it of the tabernacle adorned with gold and silver, and linen curtains, of various dies and colours; but it refers to the ornaments, bracelets, chain, earrings, and crown before, mentioned; see

Psalms 45:9;

and thy raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work;

Psalms 45:9- :; with this compare

Revelation 19:8;

thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; which did not a little contribute to her beauty and comeliness; see Daniel 1:15; this the Targum explains of the manna with which the Lord fed the Israelites in the wilderness, and was good, like fine flour, and honey, and oil; and had, as Jarchi says, the taste of them all: but may be better applied to spiritual provisions believers are fed with; to the Gospel, and the doctrines of it, which are as nourishing and strengthening as bread of fine flour; as sweet as honey to the taste; and which make fat and plump, and cause the face to shine as oil:

and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom; the Targum is,

"and ye became rich, and were greatly strengthened, and prospered, and ruled over all kingdoms;''

and had its accomplishment, as Kimchi observes, when the time of the kingdom of the house of David came: land is true of all believers, who are a kingdom of priests, a royal priesthood, kings and priests unto God; have a kingdom of grace; now, which can never be moved, and lies in righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost; and are heirs of a kingdom of glory hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fine flour, and honey, and oil - These were the choicest kinds of food.

Into a kingdom - This part of the description refers to the reigns of David and Solomon, when the kingdom of Israel (still undivided) attained its highest pitch of grandeur.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 16:13. Thus wast thou decked, c. — The Targum understands all this of the tabernacle service, the book of the law, the sacerdotal vestments, c.

Thou didst prosper into a kingdom. — Here the figure explains itself: by this wretched infant, the low estate of the Jewish nation in its origin is pointed out by the growing up of this child into woman's estate, the increase and multiplication of the people by her being decked out and ornamented, her tabernacle service, and religious ordinances; by her betrothing and consequent marriage, the covenant which God made with the Jews; by her fornication and adulteries, their apostasy from God, and the establishment of idolatrous worship, with all its abominable rites; by her fornication and whoredoms with the Egyptians and Assyrians, the sinful alliances which the Jews made with those nations, and the incorporation of their idolatrous worship with that of Jehovah; by her lovers being brought against her, and stripping her naked, the delivery of the Jews into the hands of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, who stripped them of all their excellencies, and at last carried them into captivity.

This is the key to the whole of this long chapter of metaphors; and the reader will do well to forget the figures, and look at the facts. The language and figures may in many places appear to us exceptionable: but these are quite in conformity to those times and places, and to every reader and hearer would appear perfectly appropriate, nor would engender either a thought or passion of an irregular or improper kind. Custom sanctions the mode, and prevents the abuse. Among naked savages irregular passions and propensities are not known to predominate above those in civilized life. And why? Because such sights are customary, and therefore in themselves innocent. And the same may be said of the language by which such states and circumstances of life are described. Had Ezekiel spoken in such language as would have been called chaste and unexceptionable among us, it would have appeared to his auditors as a strange dialect, and would have lost at least one half of its power and effect. Let this be the prophet's apology for the apparent indelicacy of his metaphors; and mine, for not entering into any particular discussion concerning them. See also on Ezekiel 16:63.