Ezekiel 16:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

Caused, etc

Excellent ornaments

Whereas

Revelation 3:17

General references

Ezekiel 16:22

Bible References

Caused, etc

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

Excellent ornaments

And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.

Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;

For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.

He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.

He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.

And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.

Whereas

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

General references

And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were uncovered and without clothing, stretched out in your blood.