Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born - (Ezekiel 16:4, "In the day thou wast born, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water; Ezekiel 23:25-26; Ezekiel 23:28-29, "They shall leave thee naked and bare"). Helpless, uncleansed, uncared for, and cast out. The day of her political 'birth' was when God delivered her from the bondage of Egypt, and set up the theocracy. Set her - literally, 'I will fix her,' so that she shah have no power to free herself, but must remain as a gazing-stock (Pusey).
And make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst - (Jeremiah 6:8; Zephaniah 2:13). Translate, 'make her as the wilderness'-namely, that in which she passed 40 years on her way to her goodly possession of Canaan. With this agrees the mention of "thirst" (cf. Jeremiah 2:6, "the wilderness ... a land of deserts, and of pits ... a land of drought, and of the shadow of death ... a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt").