Ezekiel 16

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, ^acause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy ^dbirth and thy nativity is of the land of ^eCanaan; ^fthy father was ^gan Amorite, and ^fthy mother ^ha Hittite. ⁴And as for thy nativity, ⁱin the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. ^5jNone 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 ^kthe lothing of thy person, ⁱin the day that thou wast born.

⁶And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast ^kkin thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast ^kkin thy blood, Live. ^7lI have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ⁿornaments: ^othy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast ^pnaked and bare. ⁸Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and ^qI spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and ^rthou becamest mine. ⁹Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and ^sI anointed thee with oil. ¹⁰I clothed thee also with ^tbroidered work, and ^ttshod thee with ^ubadgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with ^vfine linen, and I covered thee with ^wsilk. ^11xI decked thee also with ornaments, and I put ^ybracelets upon thine hands, and ^za chain ^aon thy neck. ¹²And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and ^bearrings in thine ears, and ^ca beautiful crown upon thine head. ¹³Thus ^dwast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of ^efine linen, and ^esilk, and ^ebroidered work; ^fthou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and ^gthou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. ¹⁴And ^hthy renown went forth among the heathen ^ghfor thy beauty: for it was perfect through my ⁱcomeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

¹⁵But thou didst trust ^gin thine own beauty, and ^jplayedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications ^kon every one that passed by; his it was. ¹⁶And of thy garments thou didst take, and ^ldeckedst thy high places ^mwith divers colours, and ^jplayedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so. ¹⁷Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of ⁿmy gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself ^oimages of men, and ^jdidst commit whoredom with them, ¹⁸and tookest ^ethy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and ^pthou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. ^19qMy meat also which I gave thee, ^ffine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God. ²⁰Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, ^rwhom thou hast borne unto me, and ^sthese hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms ^ta small matter, ²¹that thou hast slain ^rmy children, and delivered them ^sto cause them to pass through ^uthe fire for them? ²²And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered ^vthe days of thy youth, when thou wast ^wnaked and bare, and wast ^xpolluted ^kkin thy blood. ²³And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;) ²⁴that thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and ^yhast made thee a high place in every street. ²⁵Thou hast built thy high place ^zat every head of the way, and hast made ^gthy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet ^ato every one that passed by, and ^bmultiplied thy whoredoms. ^26aThou hast also committed fornication with ^cthe Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and ^bhast increased thy whoredoms, ^dto provoke me to anger. ²⁷Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and ^ehave diminished ^fthine ordinary food, and ^ffdelivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, ^gthe daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. ^28aThou hast played the whore also ^hwith the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. ^29abThou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of ⁱCanaan unto ^jChaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. ³⁰How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; ^31lin that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and ^mmakest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, ⁿin that thou scornest hire; ³²but as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers ^oinstead of her husband. ³³They give gifts to all whores: but ^npthou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. ³⁴And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that ^pthou givest a reward, and ⁿno reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

³⁵Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord: ³⁶thus saith the Lord God; Because thy ^qfilthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by ^rthe blood of thy children, ^rwhich thou didst give unto them; ³⁷behold therefore, ^sI will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, ^twith all them that thou hast hated; ^sI will even gather them round about against thee, and ^ttwill discover thy nakedness unto them, that ^uthey may see all thy nakedness. ³⁸And ^uuI will judge thee, as ^vwwomen that break wedlock and ^rvxshed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. ³⁹And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down ^ythine eminent place, and shall break down ^ythy high places: ^uzathey shall strip thee also of thy clothes, ^zand ^bshall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee ^cnaked and bare. ^40dThey shall also bring up a company against thee, and ^ethey shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. ⁴¹And ^fthey shall burn thine houses with fire, and ^gexecute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and ^hI will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and ⁱthou also shalt give no hire any more. ⁴²So ^kwill I make my fury towards thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. ⁴³Because thou hast not remembered ^lthe days of thy youth, but ^mhast fretted me in all these things; behold therefore, ⁿI also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and thou shalt not ⁿⁿcommit this lewdness above all thine abominations.

⁴⁴Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this ^oproverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. ⁴⁵Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that ^plotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of ^qthy sisters, which ^plothed their husbands and their children: ^ryour mother was a Hittite, and ^ryour father an Amorite. ⁴⁶And thine elder sister is ^sSamaria, she and her daughters that dwell ^tuat thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth ^tvat thy right hand, is ^wSodom and her daughters. ^47xYet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, ^zthou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. ^48aAs I live, saith the Lord God, ^bSodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. ⁴⁹Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, ^cpride, ^dfulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ⁵⁰And ^cthey were haughty, and ^ecommitted abomination before me: therefore ^fI took them away ^gas I saw good. ⁵¹Neither hath ^hSamaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and ⁱhast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. ^52jThou also, which hast ^kjudged thy sisters, ^lbear thine own shame for thy sins ^hthat thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, ⁱin that thou hast justified thy sisters.

⁵³When ^mI shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: ⁵⁴that thou mayest ^lbear thine own shame, and ⁿmayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that ⁿⁿthou art a comfort unto them. ⁵⁵When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to ⁿⁿⁿtheir former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. ⁵⁶For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, ⁵⁷before thy wickedness was discovered, ^pas at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, ^qthe daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. ^58rThou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the Lord. ⁵⁹For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast ^sdespised ^tthe oath ^sin breaking ^tthe covenant. ⁶⁰Nevertheless ^uI will remember my covenant with thee ^vin the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee ^wan everlasting covenant. ⁶¹Then ^xthou shalt remember thy ways, and ⁿbe ashamed, when thou shalt receive ^ythy sisters, ^ythine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee ^zfor daughters,…