Ezekiel 16
16AGAIN THE word of the Lord came to me, saying,H1697H3068H5592Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know, understand, {and} realize her [idolatrous] abominations [that they] are disgusting, detestable, and shamefully vile.H1121H120H3389H3045H84413And say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem [representing Israel]: Your [spiritual] origin and your birth are thoroughly Canaanitish; your [spiritual] father was an Amorite and your [spiritual] mother a Hittite.H559H559H136H3069H3389H4351H4138H776H3669H1H567H517H28504And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt or swaddled with bands at all.H4138H3117H3205H8270H3772H7364H4325H4935H4414H4414H2853H28535No eye pitied you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for your person was abhorrent {and} loathsome on the day that you were born.H5869H2347H6213H259H2550H7993H6440H7704H1604H5315H3117H32056And when I passed by you and saw you rolling about in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yes, I said to you still in your natal blood, Live!H5674H7200H947H1818H559H1818H2421H559H1818H24217I caused you [Israel] to multiply as the bud which grows in the field, and you increased and became tall and you came to full maidenhood {and} beauty; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.H5414H7233H6780H7704H7235H1431H935H5716H5716H7699H3559H8181H6779H5903H61818Now I passed by you again and looked upon you; behold, you were maturing {and} at the time for love, and I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I plighted My troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord, and you became Mine.H5674H7200H6256H6256H1730H6566H3671H3680H6172H7650H935H1285H5002H136H30699Then I washed you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your [clinging] blood from you and I anointed you with oil.H7364H4325H7857H1818H5480H808110I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with [fine seal] leather; and I girded you about with fine linen and covered you with silk.H3847H7553H5274H8476H2280H8336H3680H489711I decked you also with ornaments and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.H5710H5716H5414H6781H3027H7242H162712And I put a ring on your nostril and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown upon your head!H5414H5141H639H5694H241H8597H5850H721813Thus you were decked with gold and silver, and your raiment was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful and you prospered into royal estate.H5710H2091H3701H4403H8336H8336H4897H7553H398H5560H1706H8081H3966H3302H6743H441014And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty, for it was perfect through My majesty {and} splendor which I had put upon you, says the Lord God.H8034H3318H1471H3308H3632H1926H7760H5002H136H306915But you trusted in {and} relied on your own beauty and were unfaithful to God {and} played the harlot [in idolatry] because of your renown, and you poured out your fornications upon anyone who passed by [as you worshiped the idols of every nation which prevailed over you] and your beauty was his.H982H3308H2181H8034H8210H8457H567416And you took some of your garments and made for yourself gaily decorated high places {or} shrines and played the harlot on them--things which should not come and that which should not take place.H899H3947H6213H1116H2921H2181H93517You did also take your fair jewels {and} beautiful vessels of My gold and My silver which I had given you and made for yourself images of men, and you played the harlot with them;H3947H8597H3627H2091H3701H5414H6213H6754H2145H218118And you took your embroidered garments and covered them and set My oil and My incense before them.H3947H7553H899H3680H5414H8081H7004H644019My bread also which I gave you--fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you--you have even set it before the idols for a sweet odor. Thus it was, says the Lord God.H3899H5414H5560H8081H1706H398H5414H6440H5207H7381H5002H136H306920Moreover, you have taken your sons and your daughters whom you have borne to Me, and you have sacrificed them [to your idols] to be destroyed. Were your harlotries too little,H3947H1121H1323H3205H2076H398H8457H459221That you have slain My children and delivered them up, in setting them apart {and} causing them to pass through the fire for [your idols]?H7819H1121H5414H567422And in all your abominations and idolatrous whoredoms you have not [earnestly] remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, rolling about in your natal blood.H8441H8457H2142H3117H5271H5903H6181H947H181823And after all your wickedness--Woe, woe to you! says the Lord God--H310H7451H188H188H5002H136H306924You have built also for yourself a vaulted chamber (brothel) and have made a high place [of idol worship] in every street.H1129H1354H6213H7413H733925At every crossway you built your high place [for idol worship] and have made your beauty an abomination [abhorrent, loathsome, extremely disgusting, and detestable]; and you have made your body available to every passerby and multiplied your [idolatry and spiritual] harlotry.H1129H7413H7218H1870H3308H8581H6589H7272H5674H7235H845726You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your neighbors, [by adopting their idolatries] whose worship is thoroughly sensuous, and you have multiplied your harlotry to provoke Me to anger.H2181H1121H4714H7934H1432H1320H7235H8457H370727Behold therefore, I have stretched out My hand against you, diminished your ordinary allowance of food, and delivered you over to the will of those who hate {and} despise you, the daughters of the Philistines, who turned away in shame from your despicable policy {and} lewd behavior [for they are faithful to their gods]!H5186H3027H1639H2706H5414H5315H8130H1323H6430H3637H2154H187028You played the harlot also with the Assyrians because you were unsatiable; yes, you played the harlot with them, and yet you were not satisfied.H2181H1121H804H1115H7646H2181H765429Moreover, you multiplied your harlotry with the land of trade, with Chaldea, and yet even with this you were not satisfied.H7235H8457H776H3667H3778H7646H206330How weak {and} spent with longing {and} lust is your heart {and} mind, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the work of a bold, domineering harlot,H535H3826H5002H136H3069H6213H4639H7986H2181H80231In that you build your vaulted place (brothel) at the head of every street and make your high place at every crossing. But you were not like a harlot because you scorned pay.H1129H1354H7218H1870H6213H7413H7339H2181H7046H86832Rather, you were as an adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!H802H5003H3947H2114H37633Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers and hire them, bribing [the nations to ally themselves with you], that they may come to you on every side for your harlotries (your idolatrous unfaithfulnesses to God).H5414H5078H2181H5414H5083H157H7809H935H5439H845734And you are different [the reverse] from other women in your harlotries, in that nobody follows you to lure you into harlotry and in that you give hire when no hire is given you; and so you are different.H2016H802H8457H310H2181H5414H868H868H5414H1961H201635Therefore, O harlot [Israel], hear the word of the Lord!H2181H8085H1697H306836Thus says the Lord God: Because your brass [coins and gifts] {and} your filthiness were emptied out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers, and because of all the [filthy] idols of your abominations, and the blood of your children that you gave to them,H559H136H3069H5178H8210H6172H1540H8457H157H1544H8441H1818H1121H541437Therefore behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved with all those whom you have hated; I will even gather them [the allies you have courted] against you on every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness [making you, Israel, an object of loathing and of mockery, a spectacle among the nations].H6908H157H6149H157H8130H6908H5439H1540H6172H7200H617238And I the Lord will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I will bring upon you the blood of [your divine Husband's] wrath and jealousy.H8199H5003H8210H1818H4941H5414H1818H2534H706839And I will also give you into the hand of those [your enemies], and they shall throw down your vaulted place (brothel) and shall demolish your high places [of idolatry]; they shall strip you of your clothes and shall take your splendid jewels and leave you naked and bare.H5414H3027H2040H1354H5422H7413H6584H899H3947H8597H3627H3240H5903H618140They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones and hew down {and} thrust you through with their swords.H5927H6951H7275H68H1333H271941And they shall burn your houses with fire and execute judgments upon you before the eyes of many women spectators [the nations]. And I will cause you to cease playing the harlot, and you also shall give hire no more.H8313H1004H784H6213H8201H5869H7227H802H7673H2181H5414H86842So will I make My wrath toward you to rest and My jealousy shall depart from you [My adulterous wife], and I will be quiet and will be no more angry.H2534H5117H7068H5493H8252H370743Because you have not [earnestly] remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore behold, I also will bring your deeds down on your own head, says the Lord God. Did you not commit this lewdness above {and} in addition to all your other abominations?H2142H3117H5271H7264H1887H5414H1870H7218H5002H136H3069H6213H2154H844144Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you: As is the mother, so is her daughter.H4911H4911H559H517H132345You are your [spiritual] mother's daughter who loathed her husband and her children, and you are the sister of your sisters who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.H517H1323H1602H376H1121H269H269H1602H582H1121H517H2850H1H56746And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who dwelt in the north {and} at your left hand; and your younger sister who dwelt in the south {and} at your right hand is Sodom and her daughters.H1419H269H8111H1323H3427H8040H6996H269H3427H3225H5467H132347Yet you were not satisfied to walk after their ways or to do after their abominations, but very soon you were more corrupt in all your ways than they were [for your sin, as those taught of God, is far blacker than theirs].H1980H1870H6213H8441H6985H4592H6962H7843H2004H187048As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.H2416H5002H136H3069H5467H269H6213H1323H6213H132349Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, overabundance of food, prosperous ease, {and} idleness were hers and her daughters'; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.H5771H269H5467H1347H7653H3899H7962H8252H1323H2388H3027H6041H3450And they were haughty and committed abominable offenses before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it {and} I saw fit.H1361H6213H8441H6440H5493H720051Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins, but you have multiplied your [idolatrous] abominations more than they and have seemed to justify your sisters [Samaria and Sodom] in all their wickedness by all the abominable things which you have done--you even make them appear righteous in comparison with you.H8111H2398H2677H2403H7235H8441H2007H6663H269H8441H621352Take upon you {and} bear your own shame {and} disgrace [in your punishment], you also who called in question {and} judged your sisters, for you have virtually absolved them by your sins in which you behaved more abominably than they; they are more right than you. Yes, be ashamed {and} confounded and bear your shame {and} disgrace, you also, for you have seemed to justify your sisters {and} make them appear righteous.H6419H269H5375H3639H2403H8581H2004H6663H954H5375H3639H6663H26953I will restore them again from their captivity, restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in the midst of them [in the day of the Lord],H7725H7622H7622H7622H7622H5467H1323H7622H7622H8111H1323H7622H7622H7622H843254That you [Judah], amid your shame {and} disgrace, may be compelled to recognize your wickedness {and} be thoroughly ashamed {and} confounded at all you have done, becoming [converted and bringing] consolation {and} comfort to [your sisters.]H5375H3639H3637H6213H516255And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; then you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.H269H5467H1323H7725H6927H8111H1323H7725H6927H1323H7725H692756For was your sister Sodom not mentioned by you [except] as a byword in the day of your pride,H269H5467H8052H6310H3117H134757Before your own wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become like her, an object of reproach {and} a byword for the daughters of Syria {and} of Edom and for all who are round about them and for the daughters of the Philistines--those round about who despise you.H7451H1540H6256H2781H1323H758H5439H1323H6430H7590H543958You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your [idolatrous] abominations, says the Lord.H5375H2154H8441H5002H306859Yes, thus says the Lord God: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant;H559H136H3069H6213H6213H959H423H6565H128560Nevertheless, I will [earnestly] remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant.H2142H1285H3117H5271H6965H5769H128561Then you will [earnestly] remember your ways and be ashamed {and} confounded when you shall receive your sisters, both your elder and your younger; I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant [with Me].H2142H1870H3637H3947H269H1419H6996H5414H1323H128562And I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord,H6965H1285H3045H306863That you may [earnestly] remember and be ashamed {and} confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord God.H2142H954H6610H6310H6440H3639H3722H6213H5002H136H3069
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