Ezekiel 16
Jerusalem's
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
abominations,
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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 a Hittite.
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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.
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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 loathing of thy person, in the day that thou
wast born.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Then washed I thee with water; yea, I
thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with
oil.
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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.
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I decked thee also with ornaments, and I
put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
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And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and
earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine
head.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And of thy garments thou didst take, and
deckedst thy high places with divers colors, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it
be so.
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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,
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and tookest thy broidered garments, and
coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before
them.
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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 savor: and thus it was,
saith the Lord GOD.
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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,
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that thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for
them?
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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.
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And it came to pass after all thy
wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD,)
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that thou hast also built unto
thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a high place in every
street.
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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.
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Thou hast also committed fornication with
the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
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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.
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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.
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Thou hast moreover multiplied thy
fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chalde'a; and yet thou wast
not satisfied herewith.
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How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord
GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
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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 a harlot, in that thou scornest
hire;
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but as a wife that committeth
adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her
husband!
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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.
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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.
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Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of
the LORD:
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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;
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They shall also bring up a company
against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee
through with their swords.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Behold, every one that useth proverbs
shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the
mother, so is her daughter.
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Thou art thy mother's daughter,
that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the
sister of thy sisters, which loathed their husbands and their
children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an
Amorite.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And they were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by
thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
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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.
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Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the LORD.
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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.
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Nevertheless, I will remember my covenant
with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee
an everlasting covenant.
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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.
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And I will establish my covenant with
thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:
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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.
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