noyes Ezekiel:16-18
noyes@Ezekiel:16:1 @ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
noyes@Ezekiel:16:2 @ Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
noyes@Ezekiel:16:3 @ and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity were of the land of Canaan. Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:4 @ And as to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water so as to be cleansed. Thou wast not sprinkled with salt, nor wrapped in swaddlingclothes.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:5 @ No eye pitied thee, to do to thee any of these things, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, so as to loathe thyself, on the day thou wast born.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:6 @ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee in danger of being trodden under foot in thy blood, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live! yea, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live!
noyes@Ezekiel:16:7 @ I caused thee to increase like the plant of the field, and thou didst grow, and become tall, and didst attain to distinguished charms. Thy breasts swelled, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:8 @ And when I passed by thee, and saw thee, behold, it was thy time, the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and I swore to thee, and entered into covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:9 @ Then I washed thee with water, yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:10 @ I clothed thee also with broidered work, and gave thee shoes of seals skin, and wrapped thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:11 @ And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain upon thy neck.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:12 @ And I put a jewel in thy nostril, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:13 @ Thus wast thou adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work. Fine flour and honey and oil didst thou eat; and thou wast exceedingly beautiful, and didst prosper so as to become a queen.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:14 @ And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:15 @ But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst lavish thy fornications on every one that passed by; his was it.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:16 @ And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst make thee high places, spread with divers colors, and didst play the harlot thereon, the like things to which shall not come to pass, neither shall they be.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:17 @ Thou didst take also thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I gave thee, and didst make to thyself images of men, and didst commit fornication with them;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:18 @ and thou didst take thy broidered garments and cover them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:19 @ My food also, which I gave thee, fine flour and oil and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst set it before them with a sweet savor; even thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:20 @ Moreover thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou didst bear to me, and these didst thou sacrifice to them to be devoured. Was it not enough for thee to commit fornication,
noyes@Ezekiel:16:21 @ that thou didst slay my children, and deliver them up to cause them to pass through the fire to them?
noyes@Ezekiel:16:22 @ And in all thine abominations and thy fornications, thou didst not remember the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and in danger of being trampled under foot in thy blood.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:23 @ And it came to pass, after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe to thee! saith the Lord Jehovah,)
noyes@Ezekiel:16:24 @ that thou didst build for thee an arched place, and make thee a high place in every street;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:25 @ at every head of the way didst thou build thy high place, and didst make thy beauty to be abhorred, and didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and didst multiply thy fornications.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:26 @ Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, having great members, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me to anger.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:27 @ Therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee to the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:28 @ Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:29 @ Thou hast also multiplied thy fornication with the land of Canaan, even to Chaldaea; and yet wast thou not satisfied therewith.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:30 @ How faint was thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, that thou didst all those things which an imperious whorish wife doeth,
noyes@Ezekiel:16:31 @ in that thou didst build thine arched place at the head of every way, and make thy high place in every street! Thou wast not like a harlot, who scoffeth at her hire,
noyes@Ezekiel:16:32 @ but as an adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:33 @ To all women that commit fornication men give a reward; but thou gavest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hiredst them to come to thee from every side to commit fornication with thee.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:34 @ Thou wast the reverse of other women in thy fornications. None followed after thee to commit fornication, but thou gavest the reward, and no reward was given thee,therefore thou wast the reverse.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:35 @ Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah!
noyes@Ezekiel:16:36 @ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy treasure was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered for fornication before thy lovers, and all thine abominable idols, and because of the blood of thy children, which thou didst give to them,
noyes@Ezekiel:16:37 @ therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers, to whom thou wast pleasing, all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated, I will gather them against thee round about, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:38 @ And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I will cause thy blood to flow in fury and jealousy.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:39 @ And I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine arched place, and break down thy high places. They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and leave thee naked and bare.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:40 @ They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:41 @ 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 shalt give hire no more.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:42 @ 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.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:43 @ Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, so that thou shalt not commit this wickedness in addition to all thy abominations.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:44 @ Behold, all they that use proverbs shall utter this proverb concerning thee: "As the mother, so the daughter."
noyes@Ezekiel:16:45 @ Thou art the daughter of thy mother, that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, that loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:46 @ And thine elder sister is Samaria, with her daughters, that dwelleth at thy left hand; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom, with her daughters.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:47 @ Yet thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations: that was disdained by you, as a very little thing; thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:48 @ As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom, thy sister, hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:49 @ Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, thy sister: in pride, superabundance, and careless ease did she live, she and her daughters, and the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:50 @ and they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away when I saw it.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:51 @ 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.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:52 @ Now, therefore, bear thou thy shame, to which thou hast condemned thy sisters, since by thy sins which thou hast committed, more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou confounded and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:53 @ Yet I will bring them back from their captivity, even Sodom and her daughters from their captivity, and Samaria and her daughters from their captivity; thee also will I bring back from thy captivity in the midst of them;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:54 @ that thou mayst bear thy shame, and mayst be confounded on account of all which thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:55 @ And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:56 @ And yet Sodom, thy sister, was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride
noyes@Ezekiel:16:57 @ before thy wickedness was discovered, as in the time of thy reproach from the daughters of Syria, and from all that were round about her, and from the daughters of the Philistines, who despised thee round about.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:58 @ Thy wickedness and thine abominations must thou now bear, saith the Lord Jehovah.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:59 @ For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will do to thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath and hast broken the covenant.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:60 @ But I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:61 @ Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger, and I shall give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy observance of thy covenant.
noyes@Ezekiel:16:62 @ But I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;
noyes@Ezekiel:16:63 @ that thou mayst remember and be confounded, and not open thy mouth any more for shame, when I forgive thee all which thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:1 @ And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
noyes@Ezekiel:17:2 @ Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
noyes@Ezekiel:17:3 @ and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle, with great wings, with long feathers, full of plumage, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the highest branch of a cedar.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:4 @ He cropped off the top of its young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:5 @ He took also one of the shoots of the land, and put it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willowtree.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:6 @ And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned towards him, and whose roots were under him. It became a vine, that brought forth branches, and shot forth boughs.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:7 @ There was also another great eagle, with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, that he might water it from the beds where it was planted.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:8 @ And yet it was planted in a good soil, by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, and be a goodly vine.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:9 @ Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall not he pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it wither? In all the leaves of its branching shall it wither; even without a mighty arm, or many people, shall he pluck it up by the roots.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:10 @ Yea, behold, it is planted; but shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? It shall wither in the beds where it grew.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:11 @ Moreover, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
noyes@Ezekiel:17:12 @ Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? Say, behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took her king and her princes, and led them with him to Babylon,
noyes@Ezekiel:17:13 @ and took one of the kings offspring, and made a covenant with him, and took an oath of him, and the mighty of the land he took away,
noyes@Ezekiel:17:14 @ that the kingdom might be brought low, so as not to lift itself up; that the covenant might be kept, and stand.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:15 @ 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? Shall he break the covenant and be delivered?
noyes@Ezekiel:17:16 @ As I live saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon shall he die.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:17 @ Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great multitude accomplish anything for him in war, when they shall cast up mounds, and build forts to cut off many persons,
noyes@Ezekiel:17:18 @ he hath despised the oath, and broken the covenant; behold, he hath given the hand, and yet done all these things; he shall not escape!
noyes@Ezekiel:17:19 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely mine oath, which he hath despised, and my covenant, which he hath broken, will I recompense upon his own head.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:20 @ 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 contend with him there for his trespass which he hath committed against me.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:21 @ And all his fugitives with all his hosts shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered to all the winds; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:22 @ Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I also will take from the top of the high cedar, and will get it; and from the highest of its twigs will I crop a tender one, and plant it upon a high and lofty mountain.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:23 @ Upon a high mountain 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 birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.
noyes@Ezekiel:17:24 @ And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree; that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and will do it.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:1 @ The word of Jehovah came to me again, saying:
noyes@Ezekiel:18:2 @ What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the childrens teeth are set on edge"?
noyes@Ezekiel:18:3 @ As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:4 @ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, is mine; the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:5 @ But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right;
noyes@Ezekiel:18:6 @ if he eat not upon the mountains, and lift not up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and defile not his neighbors wife, and come not near a woman during her uncleanness;
noyes@Ezekiel:18:7 @ if he oppress not any, if he restore to the debtor his pledge, spoil none by violence, give his bread to the hungry, and cover the naked with a garment;
noyes@Ezekiel:18:8 @ if he give not forth upon usury, and take not increase; if he withdraw his hand from iniquity, and give true judgment between man and man;
noyes@Ezekiel:18:9 @ if he walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, to deal uprightly,he is just; he shall surely live, saith the Lord Jehovah.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:10 @ But if he have a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth to his brother any of these things,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:11 @ and doeth not all those duties, but eateth upon the mountains, and defileth his neighbors wife,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:12 @ oppresseth the poor and needy, spoileth by violence, restoreth not the pledge, lifteth up his eyes to idols, and committeth abomination,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:13 @ giveth forth upon usury, and taketh increase, shall he live? No! he shall not live. He hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:14 @ Yet lo, if he have a son that seeth all the sins which his father committed, that seeth them and doeth not such like,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:15 @ that eateth not upon the mountains, nor lifteth up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, nor defileth his neighbors wife,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:16 @ nor oppresseth any, nor taketh a pledge, nor spoileth by violence, but giveth his food to the hungry, and covereth the naked with a garment,
noyes@Ezekiel:18:17 @ keepeth back his hand from the poor, and taketh no usury or increase, keepeth my commandments, and walketh in my statutes, he shall not die for the iniquity of his father; he shall surely live.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:18 @ As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, he shall die for his iniquity.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:19 @ Yet say ye, "Why? Doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father?" When the son doeth that which is lawful and right, keepeth all my statutes and doeth them, he shall surely live.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:20 @ The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:21 @ But if the wicked will turn from all his sins which he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:22 @ None of his transgressions which he hath committed shall be remembered unto him; for his righteousness, which he hath done, he shall live.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:23 @ Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord Jehovah, and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
noyes@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations which the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; for his trespass which he hath trespassed, and for his sin which he hath sinned, for them shall he die.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:25 @ Yet ye say, "The way of the Lord is not right." Hear now, O house of Israel! "Is not my way right?" Is it not your ways that are not right?
noyes@Ezekiel:18:26 @ When a righteous man turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and on this account dieth, for his iniquity which he hath done doth he die.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:27 @ And when the wicked man turneth from his iniquity which he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:28 @ Because he considereth and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:29 @ Yet saith the house of Israel, "The way of the Lord is not right." O house of Israel, are not my ways right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
noyes@Ezekiel:18:30 @ Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Turn ye, turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not be your ruin.
noyes@Ezekiel:18:31 @ Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye have committed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit! For why will ye die, O house of Israel?
noyes@Ezekiel:18:32 @ For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah. Wherefore turn yourselves and live!
noyes@Ezekiel:19:1 @ Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
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