18 And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
18 You decorated your beds with fashionable silks and cottons, and perfumed them with my aromatic oils and incense.
18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.
18 You used the beautifully embroidered clothes I gave you to dress your idols. Then you used my special oil and my incense to worship them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 16:18
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.