Ezekiel 16:6 meaning and explanation

Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’

Ezekiel 16:6, Berean Standard Bible

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God speaks through Ezekiel to Jerusalem, picturing the city as an abandoned newborn in the chapter's extended allegory. Verses 4 and 5 describe a birth with no midwife's care: the cord uncut, no washing, no salt, no wrapping, the infant thrown into an open field.

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