And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Thy birth and thy nativity - thy origin and birth; literally, thy diggings (cf. Isaiah 51:1) and thy bringings forth.
Is of the land of Canaan - in which Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob sojourned before going to Egypt, and from which thou didst derive far more of thy innate characteristics than from the virtues of those thy progenitors (Ezekiel 21:30).
Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. These being the most powerful tribes, stand for the whole of the Canaanite nations (cf. Joshua 1:4; Amos 2:9), which were so abominably corrupt as to have been doomed to utter extermination by God (Leviticus 18:24-25; Leviticus 18:28; Deuteronomy 18:12). Translate, rather, 'the Amorite ... the Hittite' - i:e., these two tribes personified; their wicked characteristics, respectively, were concentrated in the parentage of Israel (Genesis 15:16). "The Hittite" is made their "mother;" alluding to Esau's wives, daughters of Heth, whose ways 'grieved the mind' of Rebekah (Genesis 26:34-35; Genesis 27:46), but pleased the degenerate descendants of Jacob, so that these are called, in respect of morals, children of the Hittite (cf. Ezekiel 16:45).