Ezekiel 16:5 meaning and explanation
No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.
Ezekiel 16:5, Berean Standard Bible
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God speaks through Ezekiel to Jerusalem, using the image of an abandoned newborn to describe the city's beginnings. Israel did not start as a great nation; she began as an unwanted infant, left unwashed and unclothed in an open field.
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