“1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 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. 4 And
[as for] thy nativity, in 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. 5 None 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 the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast
born.”
“6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own
blood, I said unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live; yea, I said
unto thee [when thou wast] in thy blood, Live. 7 I have caused thee to
multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen
great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: [thy] breasts are
fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou [wast] naked and bare.
8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time
[was] the time of love; and I 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 thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee
with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I
anointed thee with oil. 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and
shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen,
and I covered thee with silk. 11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and
I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12 And I put a
jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown
upon thine head. 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy
raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst
eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful,
and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. 14 And thy renown went forth
among the heathen for thy beauty: for it [was] perfect through my
comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.”
“15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one
that passed by; his it was. 16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and
deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver,
which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them, 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and
coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine 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. 20 Moreover thou hast
taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and
these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. [Is this] of thy
whoredoms a small matter, 21 That thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them? 22 And
in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the
days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in
thy blood. 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe
unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) 24 [That] thou hast also built unto thee
an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 25
Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made
thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that
passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. 26 Thou hast also committed
fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast
increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore I
have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary
[food], and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the
daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. 28 Thou
hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast
unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest
not be satisfied. 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in
the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
herewith. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou
doest all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish woman; 31 In
that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and
makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot,
in that thou scornest hire; 32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery,
[which] taketh strangers instead of her husband! 33 They give gifts to
all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest
them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. 34
And the contrary is in thee from [other] women in thy whoredoms, whereas
none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a
reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.”
“35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: 36 Thus saith the
Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness
discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols
of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them; 37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with
whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all [them] that thou hast loved, with
all [them] that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about
against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may
see all thy nakedness. 38 And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury
and jealousy. 39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and they
shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high
places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy
fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. 40 They shall also bring up
a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and
thrust thee through with their swords. 41 And they shall burn thine
houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many
women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou
also shalt give no hire any more. 42 So will I make my fury toward thee
to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet,
and will be no more angry. 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days
of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold,
therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the
Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations.”
“44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use [this] proverb
against thee, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter. 45 Thou
[art] thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children;
and thou [art] the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands
and their children: your mother [was] an Hittite, and your father an
Amorite. 46 And thine elder sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at
thy right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet hast thou not
walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if
that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in
all thy ways. 48 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath
not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy
daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I
took them away as I saw [good]. 51 Neither hath Samaria committed half
of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they,
and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast
done. 52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame
for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they
are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy
shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. 53 When I 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: 54 That thou mayest bear
thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in
that thou art a comfort unto them. 55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her
daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her
daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy
daughters shall return to your former estate. 56 For thy sister Sodom
was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 57 Before thy
wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [thy] reproach of the
daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of
the Philistines, which despise thee round about. 58 Thou hast borne thy
lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. 59 For thus saith the
Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast
despised the oath in breaking the covenant.”
“60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of
thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. 61
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them
unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. 62 And I will
establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I [am] the
LORD: 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open
thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee
for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.” (Ezekiel 16:1-63 AV)
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