Verse 43
43. Because This punishment is not hasty nor arbitrary. It only comes after crimes so long continued that it would be positively wicked to let such lewdness go unpunished any longer.
Thou… hast fretted me “The original scarcely bears the transitive sense in this form of the verb.” Cowles. Perhaps “thou hast raged against me.” (Compare 2 Kings 19:27-28.)
Thou shalt not commit this lewdness Havernick and Keil would read, “I will not do wickedly because of all thy abominations;” that is, “by permitting Jerusalem to remain unpunished.” By a slight change in the text we could read, “hast thou not committed lewdness above all thine abominations?” “The term ‘lewdness’ is used by Ezekiel of sexual enormity, applied figuratively to idolatry (Ezekiel 16:27). ‘Lewdness’ and ‘abominations’ would not differ except that the former was the quality characterizing the acts called abominations. In this case the clause must read, ‘and thus hast thou committed lewdness in [amidst] all thine abominations;’ and the words would be a final summary of the preceding verses.” Davidson.
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