Contradiction with Isaiah 1:4
While Ezekiel 16:5 speaks of being unwanted and neglected, Isaiah 1:4 describes a rebellious and sinful nation, indicating a willful estrangement rather than neglect.
Isaiah 1:4: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. [laden: Heb. of heaviness] [gone...: Heb. alienated, or, separated]
Contradiction with Hosea 11:1
Hosea speaks of God's love for Israel from a young age, contrasting the neglect in Ezekiel 16:5.
Hosea 11:1: When Israel [was] a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
Contradiction with Psalm 27:10
This verse states that when parents forsake someone, the Lord will take them up, contrary to the lack of care shown in Ezekiel 16:5.
Psalm 27:10: When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. [take...: Heb. gather me]
Contradiction with Isaiah 49:15
This verse suggests that even if a mother forgets her child, God will not forget, in contradiction to the negligence depicted in Ezekiel 16:5.
Isaiah 49:15: Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. [that...: Heb. from having compassion]
Contradiction with Psalm 139:13-14
These verses speak of God's intentional creation and care, opposite to the abandonment expressed in Ezekiel 16:5.
Psalm 139:13-14: For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Contradiction with Deuteronomy 32:10
This verse illustrates God caring for His people in a desert land, which contradicts the uncared-for imagery in Ezekiel 16:5.
Deuteronomy 32:10: He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. [led: or, compassed]
Contradiction with Lamentations 3:22-23
These verses highlight God's unfailing compassion and mercies, differing from the lack of compassion in Ezekiel 16:5.
Lamentations 3:22-23: [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Contradiction with Matthew 6:26
This verse speaks of God's provision for all creatures, contrasting the neglect found in Ezekiel 16:5.
Matthew 6:26: Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?