Ezekiel:16

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ylt @Ezekiel:16:1 @And there is a word of Jehovah unto me , saying , ylt @Ezekiel:16:2 @'Son of man , cause Jerusalem to know her abominations , and thou hast said : ylt @Ezekiel:16:3 @Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem : Thy birth and thy nativity [Are ] of the land of the Canaanite , Thy father the Amorite , and thy mother a Hittite . ylt @Ezekiel:16:4 @As to thy nativity , in the day thou wast born , Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut , And in water thou wast not washed for ease , And thou hast not been salted at all , And thou hast not been swaddled at all . ylt @Ezekiel:16:5 @No eye hath had pity on thee , to do to thee any of these , To have compassion on thee , And thou art cast on the face of the field , With loathing of thy person . In the day thou hast been born -- thou ! ylt @Ezekiel:16:6 @And I do pass over by thee , And I see thee trodden down in thy blood , And I say to thee in thy blood , Live , And I say to thee in thy blood , Live . ylt @Ezekiel:16:7 @A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee , And thou art multiplied , and art great , And comest in with an excellent adornment , Breasts have been formed , and thy hair hath grown -- And thou , naked and bare ! ylt @Ezekiel:16:8 @And I pass over by thee , and I see thee , And lo , thy time [is ] a time of loves , And I spread My skirt over thee , And I cover thy nakedness , And I swear to thee , and come in to a covenant with thee , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , And thou dost become Mine . ylt @Ezekiel:16:9 @And I do wash thee with water , And I wash away thy blood from off thee , And I anoint thee with perfume . ylt @Ezekiel:16:10 @And I clothe thee with embroidery , And I shoe thee with badger 's skin , And I gird thee with fine linen , And I cover thee with figured silk . ylt @Ezekiel:16:11 @And I adorn thee with adornments , And I give bracelets for thy hands , And a chain for thy neck . ylt @Ezekiel:16:12 @And I give a ring for thy nose , And rings for thine ears , And a crown of beauty on thy head . ylt @Ezekiel:16:13 @And thou dost put on gold and silver , And thy clothing [is ] fine linen , And figured silk and embroidery , Fine flour , and honey , and oil thou hast eaten , And thou art very very beautiful , And dost go prosperously to the kingdom . ylt @Ezekiel:16:14 @And go forth doth thy name among nations , Because of thy beauty -- for it [is ] complete , In My honour that I have set upon thee , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah . ylt @Ezekiel:16:15 @And thou dost trust in thy beauty , And goest a-whoring because of thy renown , And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by -- to him it is . ylt @Ezekiel:16:16 @And thou dost take of thy garments , And dost make to thee spotted high-places , And dost go a-whoring upon them , They are not coming in -- nor shall it be ! ylt @Ezekiel:16:17 @And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee , And dost make to thee images of a male , And dost go a-whoring with them , ylt @Ezekiel:16:18 @And dost take the garments of thy embroidery , And thou dost cover them , And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them . ylt @Ezekiel:16:19 @And My bread , that I gave to thee , Fine flour , and oil , and honey , that I caused thee to eat . Thou hast even set it before them , For a sweet fragrance -- thus it is , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah . ylt @Ezekiel:16:20 @And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me , And dost sacrifice them to them for food . Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms , ylt @Ezekiel:16:21 @That thou dost slaughter My sons , And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them ? ylt @Ezekiel:16:22 @And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms , Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth , When thou wast naked and bare , Trodden down in thy blood thou wast ! ylt @Ezekiel:16:23 @And it cometh to pass , after all thy wickedness , (Wo , wo , to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah ), ylt @Ezekiel:16:24 @That thou dost build to thee an arch , And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place . ylt @Ezekiel:16:25 @At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place , And thou dost make thy beauty abominable , And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by , And dost multiply thy whoredoms , ylt @Ezekiel:16:26 @And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt , Thy neighbours -- great of appetite ! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms , To provoke Me to anger . ylt @Ezekiel:16:27 @And lo , I have stretched out My hand against thee , And I diminish thy portion , And give thee to the desire of those hating thee , The daughters of the Philistines , Who are ashamed of thy wicked way . ylt @Ezekiel:16:28 @And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur , Without thy being satisfied , And thou dost go a-whoring with them , And also -- thou hast not been satisfied . ylt @Ezekiel:16:29 @And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan -- toward Chaldea , And even with this thou hast not been satisfied . ylt @Ezekiel:16:30 @How weak [is ] thy heart , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , In thy doing all these , The work of a domineering whorish woman . ylt @Ezekiel:16:31 @In thy building thine arch at the head of every way , Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place , And -- hast not been as a whore deriding a gift . ylt @Ezekiel:16:32 @The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers . ylt @Ezekiel:16:33 @To all whores they give a gift , And -- thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers , And dost bribe them to come in unto thee , From round about -- in thy whoredoms . ylt @Ezekiel:16:34 @And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms , That after thee none doth go a-whoring ; And in thy giving a gift , And a gift hath not been given to thee ; And thou art become contrary . ylt @Ezekiel:16:35 @Therefore , O whore , hear a word of Jehovah , ylt @Ezekiel:16:36 @Thus said the Lord Jehovah : Because of thy brass being poured forth , And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers , And near all the idols of thy abominations , And according to the blood of thy sons , Whom thou hast given to them ; ylt @Ezekiel:16:37 @Therefore , lo , I am assembling all thy lovers , To whom thou hast been sweet , And all whom thou hast loved , Besides all whom thou hast hated ; And I have assembled them by thee round about , And have revealed thy nakedness to them , And they have seen all thy nakedness . ylt @Ezekiel:16:38 @And I have judged thee -- judgments of adultresses , And of women shedding blood , And have given thee blood , fury , and jealousy . ylt @Ezekiel:16:39 @And I have given thee into their hand , And they have thrown down thine arch , And they have broken down thy high places , And they have stript thee of thy garments , And they have taken thy beauteous vessels , And they have left thee naked and bare . ylt @Ezekiel:16:40 @And have caused an assembly to come up against thee , And stoned thee with stones , And thrust thee through with their swords , ylt @Ezekiel:16:41 @And burnt thy houses with fire , And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women , And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring , And also a gift thou givest no more . ylt @Ezekiel:16:42 @And I have caused My fury against thee to rest , And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee , And I have been quiet , and I am not angry any more . ylt @Ezekiel:16:43 @Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth , And dost give trouble to Me in all these , Lo , even I also thy way at first gave up , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , And I did not this thought for all thine abominations . ylt @Ezekiel:16:44 @Lo , every one using a simile , Doth use a simile concerning thee , saying : As the mother -- her daughter ! ylt @Ezekiel:16:45 @Thy mother 's daughter thou [art ], Loathing her husband and her sons , And thy sisters ' sister thou [art ], Who loathed their husbands and their sons , Your mother [is ] a Hittite , and your father an Amorite . ylt @Ezekiel:16:46 @And thine elder sister [is ] Samaria , she and her daughters , Who is dwelling at thy left hand , And thy younger sister , who is dwelling on thy right hand , [is ] Sodom and her daughters . ylt @Ezekiel:16:47 @And -- in their ways thou hast not walked , And according to their abominations done , As a little thing it hath been loathed , And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways . ylt @Ezekiel:16:48 @I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah , Sodom thy sister hath not done -- she and her daughters -- As thou hast done -- thou and thy daughters . ylt @Ezekiel:16:49 @Lo , this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister , Arrogancy , fulness of bread , and quiet ease , Have been to her and to her daughters , And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened . ylt @Ezekiel:16:50 @And they are haughty and do abomination before Me , And I turn them aside when I have seen . ylt @Ezekiel:16:51 @As to Samaria , as the half of thy sins -- she hath not sinned , And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they , And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done . ylt @Ezekiel:16:52 @Thou also -- bear thy shame , That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters , Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they , They are more righteous than thou , And thou , also , be ashamed and bear thy shame , In thy justifying thy sisters . ylt @Ezekiel:16:53 @And I have turned back [to ] their captivity , The captivity of Sodom and her daughters , And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters , And the captivity of thy captives in their midst , ylt @Ezekiel:16:54 @So that thou dost bear thy shame , And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done , In thy comforting them . ylt @Ezekiel:16:55 @And thy sisters , Sodom and her daughters , Do turn back to their former state , And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state , And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state . ylt @Ezekiel:16:56 @And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth , In the day of thine arrogancy , ylt @Ezekiel:16:57 @Before thy wickedness is revealed , As [at ] the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram , And of all her neighbours , the daughters of the Philistines , Who are despising thee round about . ylt @Ezekiel:16:58 @Thy devices and thine abominations , Thou hast borne them , an affirmation of Jehovah . ylt @Ezekiel:16:59 @For thus said the Lord Jehovah : I have dealt with thee as thou hast done , In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant . ylt @Ezekiel:16:60 @And I -- I have remembered My covenant with thee , In the days of thy youth , And I have established for thee a covenant age-during . ylt @Ezekiel:16:61 @And thou hast remembered thy ways , And thou hast been ashamed , In thy receiving thy sisters -- Thine elder with thy younger , And I have given them to thee for daughters , And not by thy covenant . ylt @Ezekiel:16:62 @And I -- I have established My covenant with thee , And thou hast known that I [am ] Jehovah . ylt @Ezekiel:16:63 @So that thou dost remember , And thou hast been ashamed , And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame , In My receiving atonement for thee , For all that thou hast done , An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah !'

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