rsv Ezekiel:16:8-16
rsv@Ezekiel:16:8 @ "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:9 @ Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you, and anointed you with oil.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:10 @ I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with leather, I swathed you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:11 @ And I decked you with ornaments, and put bracelets on your arms, and a chain on your neck.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:12 @ And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered cloth; you ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful, and came to regal estate.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:15 @ "But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by.
rsv@Ezekiel:16:16 @ You took some of your garments, and made for yourself gaily decked shrines, and on them played the harlot; the like has never been, nor ever shall be.