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    Ezekiel 16

    1 This message came to me from the LORD:ISV — Ezekiel 16:1

    2 “Son of Man, make known to Israel her detestable practices.ISV — Ezekiel 16:2

    3 You are to declare, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your birth place a16:3 Lit. Your origin and birth was the territory that belonged to the Canaanites. Your father was an Ammonite and your mother was a Hittite.ISV — Ezekiel 16:3

    4 Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn’t cut. You weren’t washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it’s certain that you weren’t wrapped in strips of cloth.ISV — Ezekiel 16:4

    5 Nobody pitied you to do any of these things for you, and nobody showed you any compassion. You were tossed outside on the ground, because you b16:5 Lit. your soul were detested from the day you were born.ISV — Ezekiel 16:5

    6 “‘“When I passed by you, I saw you kicking around, covered in your own blood. That’s when I told you, ‘Live!’—while you were wallowing in your blood. I commanded you to live, even as you lay there in your own blood.ISV — Ezekiel 16:6

    7 I made you increase like sprouting grain c16:7 Lit. like that which sprouts in the field. As a result, you multiplied greatly. Eventually, you reached the age when young women start wearing jewelry. Your breasts were formed, your hair had grown, but you were still bare and naked.”’”ISV — Ezekiel 16:7

    8 “When I passed by you again, I looked at you, and noticed that it was your proper time for love. I spread my cloak d16:8 Lit. wings over you to cover your nakedness. I made a solemn promise to you and entered into a covenant with you,” declares the Lord GOD. “You belong to me.ISV — Ezekiel 16:8

    9 I bathed you with water, rinsed your own blood from you, and anointed you with oil.ISV — Ezekiel 16:9

    10 Then I covered you with embroidered clothing, clothed your feet with leather sandals, wrapped e16:10 Lit. bound you with fine linen, and dressed you in silk.ISV — Ezekiel 16:10

    11 I adorned you with jewels, placing bracelets on your hand and necklaces on your neck.ISV — Ezekiel 16:11

    12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a crown encrusted with jewels on your head.ISV — Ezekiel 16:12

    13 You were adorned with gold, silver, clothing of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate food made from the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, attaining royal status.ISV — Ezekiel 16:13

    14 Your fame f16:14 Lit. name spread throughout the nations because of your beauty. You were perfectly beautiful due to my splendor with which I endowed you,” declares the Lord GOD.ISV — Ezekiel 16:14

    15 “But you trusted in your beauty. You did what whores do, as a result of your fame. You passed out your sexual favors g16:15 Lit. adulteries to anyone who passed by, giving yourself to anyone.ISV — Ezekiel 16:15

    16 You took some of your clothes and made gaily-colored high places and prostituted yourself all around them—something which had never happened before nor will ever happen again.ISV — Ezekiel 16:16

    17 “You also took your fine jewelry—including my gold and my silver that I had given you. Then you made for yourself male images and had sex with them!ISV — Ezekiel 16:17

    18 You took your embroidered gowns and made clothes to cover them. Then you offered my olive oil and incense to them.ISV — Ezekiel 16:18

    19 “Not only that, you took the food I gave you—my fine flour, olive oil, and honey with which I fed you, and you offered h16:19 Or set them to those gods i16:19 The Heb. lacks to those gods in order to appease them. j16:19 Lit. gods as a pleasing aroma That’s exactly what happened,” says the Lord GOD.ISV — Ezekiel 16:19

    20 “Then you took your sons and daughters whom you bore for me and sacrificed them for your idols to eat. As though your prostitutions were an insignificant thing,ISV — Ezekiel 16:20

    21 you also slaughtered my sons and offered them to idols, incinerating them in fire. k16:21 The Heb. lacks in fireISV — Ezekiel 16:21

    22 Throughout all of your detestable practices and immorality, you never did remember your earlier life when you were bare, naked, and wallowing in your own blood.”ISV — Ezekiel 16:22

    23 “How terrible! How terrible it will be for all of your wickedness!” declares the Lord GOD.ISV — Ezekiel 16:23

    24 “You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza.ISV — Ezekiel 16:24

    25 At every street corner you made your beauty abhorrent when you made yourself available for sex to l16:25 Lit. you parted your legs for anyone who was passing by. By doing this, you kept on committing more and more immorality.ISV — Ezekiel 16:25

    26 Then you committed immorality with your neighbors, the Egyptians, m16:26 Lit. sons of Egypt with perverted lust, n16:26 Lit. with great flesh and by doing so you fornicated even more, provoking me to anger.ISV — Ezekiel 16:26

    27 “Therefore, look out! I’ve reached out to oppose you. I withdrew your rations and delivered you o16:27 Lit. soul to those Philistine women who hate you. Even they were embarrassed at your wicked ways!ISV — Ezekiel 16:27

    28 You committed immorality with the Assyrians, p16:28 Lit. sons of Assyria because you still weren’t satisfied. You committed immorality with them, but you still weren’t satisfied.ISV — Ezekiel 16:28

    29 You committed even more immorality with that land of the merchants, the Chaldeans. But you weren’t satisfied even with these!ISV — Ezekiel 16:29

    30 “How weak is your heart,” declares the Lord GOD, “when you committed all of these deeds, the acts of an imperious whore!ISV — Ezekiel 16:30

    31 When you built your mound on every street corner and constructed your high place at every plaza, you weren’t like a common prostitute, in that you’ve insulted the wages of a prostituteISV — Ezekiel 16:31

    32 who commits adultery, preferring a stranger over her husband!ISV — Ezekiel 16:32

    33 “All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give your gifts to all your lovers, then you bribe them to come to you from everywhere to get your sexual favors! q16:33 Lit. your fornicationsISV — Ezekiel 16:33

    34 You’re different from other women when you commit immorality—no one can match you in that! r16:34 Lit. in how you commit immorality After all, you pay fees, but no fee is given to you. You’re certainly different!”ISV — Ezekiel 16:34

    35 “Therefore listen to this message from the LORD, you whore!ISV — Ezekiel 16:35

    36 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because your lust has been poured out and your nakedness has been uncovered by your acts of fornication with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your sons, whom you offered to them,ISV — Ezekiel 16:36

    37 therefore, watch out! I’m about to gather all your lovers from whom you’ve received your pleasure, everyone whom you’ve loved, and those whom you’ve hated. I’ll gather them together to oppose you from every side, and they’ll uncover your nakedness in their presence. Then they’ll see you completely naked.ISV — Ezekiel 16:37

    38 I’ll judge you with the same standards by which I issue verdicts against a woman who commits adultery and murder. s16:38 Lit. and one who sheds blood I’ll avenge the blood you’ve shed with impassioned wrath. t16:38 Lit. wrath and passionISV — Ezekiel 16:38

    39 “I’ll also deliver you into their control, and they’ll break down your mounds, tear down your high places, strip off your clothes, remove your fine jewels, and then they’ll leave you stark naked!ISV — Ezekiel 16:39

    40 They’ll bring a mob against you to stone you to death u16:40 Lit. death with stones and cut you into pieces with their swords.ISV — Ezekiel 16:40

    41 Then they’ll burn your houses and carry out my sentence v16:41 Lit. and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. “That’s how I’ll make you stop your prostitution so you won’t pay any prostitute’s fees anymore.ISV — Ezekiel 16:41

    42 I’ll stop being angry with you, and I’ll cease being jealous. w16:42 Lit. I’ll turn aside my jealousy from you I’ll be calm and not be indignant anymore.ISV — Ezekiel 16:42

    43 Because you didn’t remember the time when you were young, but instead you provoked me to anger because of all these things, watch out! I’m going to bring your behavior back to haunt x16:43 The Heb. lacks haunt you!” declares the Lord GOD. “Didn’t you do this wicked thing, in addition to all your other y16:43 The Heb. lacks other detestable practices?”ISV — Ezekiel 16:43

    44 “Now, everyone who likes proverbs will quote this proverb about you, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ISV — Ezekiel 16:44

    45 You’re the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You’re the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. “Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.ISV — Ezekiel 16:45

    46 Your elder sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived in the north, z16:46 Lit. lived on your left while your younger sister who lived in the south aa16:46 Lit. lived on your right with her daughters was Sodom.ISV — Ezekiel 16:46

    47 It wasn’t just that you lived like they did and committed their detestable practices, but in just a little while your behavior led you to become more corrupt than they were!”ISV — Ezekiel 16:47

    48 “As I live,” declares the Lord GOD, “your sister Sodom and her daughters didn’t do what you and your daughters have done.ISV — Ezekiel 16:48

    49 Look! This was the sin of your sister Sodom and her daughters: Pride, too much food, undisturbed peace, and failure to help bb16:49 Lit. to strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.ISV — Ezekiel 16:49

    50 In their arrogance, they committed detestable practices in my presence, so when I saw it, I removed them.ISV — Ezekiel 16:50

    51 Samaria didn’t commit half of your sins—you practiced more detestable deeds than they did! You’ve caused your sister to be more righteous than you, because of the detestable practices that you’ve committed.ISV — Ezekiel 16:51

    52 So now, bear your own shame as you mediate for your sisters. The sins that you’ve committed are more detestable than theirs. That makes them more righteous than you. Indeed, be ashamed and bear your reproach, because you’ve made your sisters to be more righteous than you.”ISV — Ezekiel 16:52

    53 “I’ll bring them back from their captivity—that is, from the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, along with the captivity of Samaria and her daughters and the captivity of your captives among them.ISV — Ezekiel 16:53

    54 But you’ll continue to bear your own reproach and be humiliated for everything that you’ve done. You’ll be a comfort to them.ISV — Ezekiel 16:54

    55 Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Then you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.ISV — Ezekiel 16:55

    56 “When you were being so arrogant, you never once mentioned your sister SodomISV — Ezekiel 16:56

    57 before your wickedness was revealed. Now you’ve become an object of derision to the inhabitants cc16:57 Lit. daughters of Aram and its neighbors, including the Philistines dd16:57 Lit. the daughters of the —all those around you who despise you.ISV — Ezekiel 16:57

    58 You are to bear the punishment of your wickedness and detestable practices,” declares the LORD,ISV — Ezekiel 16:58

    59 “since the Lord GOD says, ‘I’ll deal with you according to what you’ve done, when you despised your oath by breaking the covenant.ISV — Ezekiel 16:59

    60 “‘Meanwhile, as for me, I’ll remember my covenant with you from when you were young, because I’ll establish an eternal covenant with you.ISV — Ezekiel 16:60

    61 Then you’ll remember your behavior and be ashamed when you greet your sisters—your elder sister and your younger sister. I’ll give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you.ISV — Ezekiel 16:61

    62 I’ll establish my covenant with you, and then you’ll know that I am the LORD.ISV — Ezekiel 16:62

    63 Then you will remember, be ashamed, and you won’t open your mouth anymore due to humiliation when I will have made atonement for you for everything that you’ve done,’ declares the Lord GOD.”ISV — Ezekiel 16:63

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