29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your prostitution shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your prostitution.
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And they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy (k) labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy harlotries (l) shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy harlotries.
(k) All your treasures and riches which you have gotten by labour.
(l) All the world will see your shameful forsaking of God to serve idols.
And they shall deal with thee hatefully,.... The Chaldeans should hate the Jews as much as before they loved them, when they came into the bed of love to them, Ezekiel 23:17 and as much as the Jews hated them; which they showed by their severe and rigorous usage of them, putting some to the sword, carrying the rest captive, and employing them in hard service and labour; and, which is still worse, and an aggravation of all this:
and shall take away all thy labour; whatever they got by labour, that they should not enjoy, but should be taken away from them:
and shall leave thee naked and bare: stripped of all the necessaries and conveniences of life:
and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms; it shall then be manifest to all that thou hast been guilty of idolatry, and hast departed from the Lord thy God, which has caused him to bring these judgments upon thee for thy sins. The Targum paraphrases the latter part of the clause thus,
"the sins of thy wicked counsels, and thy pride.''
It seems to be a heap of words, to express the grossness of their idolatries, which now should be exposed.
take away . . . thy labour--that is, the fruits of thy labor.
leave thee naked--as captive females are treated.
Take away - Deprive thee of the comfortable use of all thy labour, which they will exact of thee in captivity.
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