Ezekiel 16:5

"As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all."

Key Reflection

In Ezekiel 16:5, the prophet describes a child who was born without the customary practices of circumcision and purification, symbolizing an individual who is spiritually uncircumcised and unclean. This imagery underscores the need for spiritual regeneration and cleansing through divine grace rather than natural birth or physical rituals.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

To the lothing of thy person -Or, “so abhorred was thy person.”

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