Ezekiel 16:5

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.

Cross-reference

Exodus 1:22 Parallel

Exodus 1:22 depicts the drowning of Hebrew male infants — the same image of a newborn being cast out to die that Ezekiel uses for Jerusalem's origin.

In Isaiah 49:15, God promises to never forget His people — a direct contrast to the total abandonment described in Ezekiel 16:5.

Jeremiah 9:22 also pictures bodies lying in the open field with no one to gather them — the same desolate abandonment imagery as the infant here.

In Lamentations 4:3, the heartless neglect of children is compared to ostriches — directly echoing the abandonment of Jerusalem's newborn.

Job 3:12 Contrast

Job 3:12 asks why there were knees to receive him at birth — a reversal of the infant here who had no one to receive or care for it.

Jeremiah 22:19 describes Jehoiakim being thrown outside the gates like a donkey — a similar fate of being cast out with no proper burial, echoing the infant abandoned here.