Ezekiel:16-17

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* Again the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , cause Jerusalem to know her abominations , * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Then washed I thee with water ; yea , I throughly washed away thy blood from thee , and I anointed thee with oil . * 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 . * I decked thee also with ornaments , and I put bracelets upon thy hands , and a chain on thy neck . * And I put a jewel on thy forehead , and earrings in thine ears , and a beautiful crown upon thine head . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 , * And tookest thy broidered garments , and coveredst them : and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them . * 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 . * 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 , * That thou hast slain my children , and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them ? * 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 . * And it came to pass after all thy wickedness , (woe , woe unto thee ! saith the Lord GOD ;) * That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place , and hast made thee an high place in every street . * 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 . * Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours , great of flesh ; and hast increased thy whoredoms , to provoke me to anger . * 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 . * 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 . * Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea ; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith . * How weak is thine heart , saith the Lord GOD , seeing thou doest all these things , the work of an imperious whorish woman ; * 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 ; * But as a wife that committeth adultery , which taketh strangers instead of her husband ! * 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 . * 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 . * Wherefore , O harlot , hear the word of the LORD : * 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 ; * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * They shall also bring up a company against thee , and they shall stone thee with stones , and thrust thee through with their swords . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Behold , every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee , saying , As is the mother , so is her daughter . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And they were haughty , and committed abomination before me : therefore I took them away as I saw good . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride , * 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 . * Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations , saith the LORD . * 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 . * Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth , and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant . * 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 . * And I will establish my covenant with thee ; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD : * 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 . * And the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Son of man , put forth a riddle , and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; * And say , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; A great eagle with great wings , longwinged , full of feathers , which had divers colours , came unto Lebanon , and took the highest branch of the cedar : * He cropped off the top of his young twigs , and carried it into a land of traffick ; he set it in a city of merchants . * He took also of the seed of the land , and planted it in a fruitful field ; he placed it by great waters , and set it as a willow tree . * And it grew , and became a spreading vine of low stature , whose branches turned toward him , and the roots thereof were under him : so it became a vine , and brought forth branches , and shot forth sprigs . * There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers : and , behold , this vine did bend her roots toward him , and shot forth her branches toward him , that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation . * It was planted in a good soil by great waters , that it might bring forth branches , and that it might bear fruit , that it might be a goodly vine . * Say thou , Thus saith the Lord GOD ; Shall it prosper ? shall he not pull up the roots thereof , and cut off the fruit thereof , that it wither ? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring , even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof . * Yea , behold , being planted , shall it prosper ? shall it not utterly wither , when the east wind toucheth it ? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew . * Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me , saying , * Say now to the rebellious house , Know ye not what these things mean ? tell them , Behold , the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem , and hath taken the king thereof , and the princes thereof , and led them with him to Babylon ; * And hath taken of the king 's seed , and made a covenant with him , and hath taken an oath of him : he hath also taken the mighty of the land : * That the kingdom might be base , that it might not lift itself up , but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand . * But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt , that they might give him horses and much people . Shall he prosper ? shall he escape that doeth such things ? or shall he break the covenant , and be delivered ? * As I live , saith the Lord GOD , surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king , whose oath he despised , and whose covenant he brake , even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die . * Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war , by casting up mounts , and building forts , to cut off many persons : * Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant , when , lo , he had given his hand , and hath done all these things , he shall not escape . * Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD ; As I live , surely mine oath that he hath despised , and my covenant that he hath broken , even it will I recompense upon his own head . * And I will spread my net upon him , and he shall be taken in my snare , and I will bring him to Babylon , and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me . * And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword , and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds : and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it . * Thus saith the Lord GOD ; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar , and will set it ; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one , and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent : * In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it : and it shall bring forth boughs , and bear fruit , and be a goodly cedar : and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing ; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell . * And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree , have exalted the low tree , have dried up the green tree , and have made the dry tree to flourish : I the LORD have spoken and have done it . * The word of the LORD came unto me again , saying ,

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