Ezekiel 16:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ No eye pitied you to do any of these things for you out of compassion for you, but you were thrown out in the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ No eye pitied you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for your person was abhorrent and loathsome on the day that you were born.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

Common English Bible

⁵ No one took pity or cared enough to do any of these things for you. You were despised on the day of your birth and thrown out on the open field.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ No eye took pity on you, so as to do even one of these things to you, out of compassion for you. Instead, you were cast upon the face of the earth, in the abjection of your soul, on the day when you were born.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.

Ezekiel 16:5 Cross References

Genesis 21:10

So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not inherit along with my son Isaac.”

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Isaiah 49:15

Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these might forget, yet I will not forget you.

Jeremiah 22:19

With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried: dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my stomach churns; my bile is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:10

The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food in the destruction of my people.

Lamentations 4:3

Even the jackals offer the breast and nurse their young, but my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 16:6

I passed by you and saw you flailing about in your blood. As you lay in your blood, I said to you, “Live!

Ezekiel 2:6

And you, O mortal, do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns surround you and you live among scorpions; do not be afraid of their words, and do not be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Deuteronomy 32:10

He sustained him in a desert land, in a howling wilderness waste; he shielded him, cared for him, guarded him as the apple of his eye.