30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
30 "How sick is your heart,
30 "'What a sick soul! Doing all this stuff - the champion whore!
30 How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord God, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
30 "What a sick heart you have, says the Sovereign Lord, to do such things as these, acting like a shameless prostitute.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:30
Commentary on Ezekiel 16:1-58
(Read Ezekiel 16:1-58)
In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.