“‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 49. Sodom, and so forth That is, these were the steps by which the Sodomites came to fall into those abominations for which they were destroyed. For pride, gluttony, and idleness, are the high road to all kinds of lust; especially when they are accompanied with a neglect of the works of mercy. Challoner.—These crimes alone are great enough; (Lu. 16:19) and the prophets never accuse the Jews of unnatural lust. Hence Ezechiel takes no notice of it here, as he probably refers to the manners of the Moabites, and so forth who were then living. Isaiah 16:6. Calmet.—Abundance and idleness produce crimes; temperance and labour bring forth good fruit. Worthington.