Ezekiel 16:5
ContextNET © | No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; 1 you were thrown out into the open field 2 because you were detested on the day you were born. |
NIV © | No-one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. |
NASB © | "No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born. |
NLT © | No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were dumped in a field and left to die, unwanted. |
MSG © | No one cared a fig for you. No one did one thing to care for you tenderly in these ways. You were thrown out into a vacant lot and left there, dirty and unwashed--a newborn nobody wanted. |
BBE © | No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth. |
NRSV © | 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. |
NKJV © | "No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. |
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NET © | No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; 1 you were thrown out into the open field 2 because you were detested on the day you were born. |
NET © Notes |
1 sn These verbs, “pity” and “spare,” echo the judgment oracles in 5:11; 7:4, 9; 8:18; 9:5, 10. 2 sn A similar concept is found in Deut 32:10. |