37 therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all those who you have hated; I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
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Behold, therefore I will gather all (r) thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them on every side against thee, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
(r) Egyptians, Assyrians and Chaldeans whom you took to be your lovers will come and destroy you, (Ezekiel 23:9).
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure,.... Or, "with whom thou hast mixed" (r); in unlawful embraces, joined in sinful alliances, or in idolatrous practices:
and all them that thou hast loved; the Egyptians and Assyrians, whose friendship and idolatrous customs they were fond of:
with all them that thou hast hated; as the Philistines, Moabites, and Ammonites:
I will even gather them round about against thee; as they were in the Chaldean army, which consisted of many nations:
and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness; as a just retaliation for discovering it herself, as in Ezekiel 16:36; than which nothing can be more disagreeable to the sex. The Milesian virgins were restrained from suicide by a law, which ordered that such should be drawn naked through the market place. This is to be understood of the spoiling of the city and temple.
(r) "quibus commixtuisti cum illis", Starckius.
thy lovers--the Chaldeans and the Assyrians. The law of retribution is the more signally exemplified by God employing, as His instruments of judgment on Israel, those very nations whose alliance and idols Israel had so eagerly sought, besides giving her up to those who had been always her enemies. "God will make him, who leaves God for the world, disgraced even in the eyes of the world, and indeed the more so the nearer he formerly stood to Himself" [HENGSTENBERG], (Isaiah 47:3; Jeremiah 13:26; Hosea 2:12; Nahum 3:5).
all . . . thou hast hated--the Edomites and Philistines; also Moab and Ammon especially (Deuteronomy 23:3).
I . . . will discover thy nakedness--punishment in kind, as she had "discovered her nakedness through whoredoms" (Ezekiel 16:36); the sin and its penalty corresponded. I will expose thee to public infamy.
*More commentary available at chapter level.