EZEKIEL 16

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Jerusalem as an Adulterous Wife

   1 The word of the LORD came to me:   2 "Son of

man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable

practices   3 and say, 'This is what the Sovereign

LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and

birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your

father was an Amorite and your mother a

Hittite.   4 On the day you were born your cord

was not cut, nor were you washed with water

to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with

salt or wrapped in cloths.   5 No one looked on

you with pity or had compassion enough to do

any of these things for you. Rather, you wore

thrown out into the open field, for on the day

you were born you were despised.

   6 " 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking

about in your blood, and as you lay there in

your blood I said to you, "Live!"   7 I made

you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and

developed and entered puberty. Your breasts

ha formed and your hair had grown, yet you

were stark naked.

   8 " 'Later I passed by, and when I looked at

you and saw that you were old enough for

love, I spread the corner of my garment over

you and covered your naked body. I gave you

my solemn oath and entered into a covenant

with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you

became mine.

   9 " 'I bathed you with water water and washed the

blood from you and put ointments on you.   10 I

clothed you with an embroidered dress and

put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed

you in fine linen and covered you with costly

garments.   11 I adorned you with jewelry: I put

bracelets on your arms and a necklace around

your neck,   12 and I put a ring on your nose,

earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on

your head.   13 So you were adorned with gold

and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and

costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food

was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You

became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.

14 And your fame spread among the nations on

account of your beauty, because the splendor

I had given you made your beauty perfect,

declares the Sovereign LORD.

   15 " 'But you trusted in your beauty and used

your fame to become a prostitute. You

lavished your favors on anyone who passed by

and your beauty became his.   16 You took some

of your garments to make gaudy high places,

where you carried on your prostitution. You

went to him, and he possessed your beauty.

   17 You also took the fine jewelry I gave

you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver,

and you made for yourself male idols and

engaged in prostitution with them.   18 And you

took your embroidered clothes to put on

them, and you offered my oil and incense

before them.   19 Also the food I provided for

you--the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you

to eat--you offered as fragrant incense before

them. That is what happened, declares the

Sovereign LORD.

   20 " 'And you took your sons and daughters

whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as

food to the idols. Was your prostitution not

enough?   21 You slaughtered my children and

sacrificed them to the idols.   22 In all your

detestable practices and your prostitution you

did not remember the days of your youth,

when you were naked and bare, kicking about

in your blood.

   23 " 'Woe! Woe to you, declares the

Sovereign LORD. In addition to all your other

wickedness,   24 you built a mound for yourself

and made a lofty shrine in every public

square.   25 At every street corner you built your

lofty shrines and degraded your beauty,

spreading your legs with increasing

promiscuity to anyone who passed by.   26 You

engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians,

your neighbors with large genitals, and

aroused my anger with your increasing

promiscuity.   27 So I stretched out my hand

against you and reduced your territory; I gave

you over to the greed of your enemies, the

daughters of the Philistines, who were

shocked by your lewd conduct.   28 You engaged

in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because

you were insatiable; and even after that, you

still were not satisfied.    29 Then you increased

your promiscuity to include Babylonia, a

land of merchants, but even with this you

were not satisfied.

   30 " 'I am filled with fury against you,

declares the Sovereign LORD, when you do all

these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

31 When you built your mounds at every street

corner and made your lofty shrines in every

public square, you were unlike a prostitute,

because you scorned payment.

   32 " 'You adulterous wife! You prefer

strangers to your own husband!   33 All

prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to

all your lovers, bribing them to come to you

from everywhere for your illicit favors.   34 So in

your prostitution you are the opposite of

others; no one runs after you for your favors.

You are the very opposite, for you give

payment and none is given to you.

   35 " 'Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word

of the LORD!   36 This is what the Sovereign LORD

says: Because you poured out your lust and

exposed your naked body in your promiscuity

with your lovers, and because of all your

detestable idols, and because you gave them

your children's and because you gave them

your children's blood,   37 therefore I am going

to gather all your lovers, with whom you found

pleasure, those you loved as well as those you

hated. I will gather them against you from all

around and will strip you in front of them, and

they will see you stark naked.   38 I will sentence

you to the punishment of women who commit

adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on

you the blood vengeance of my wrath and

jealous anger.   39 Then I will deliver you into

the hands of your lovers, and they will tear

down your mounds and destroy your lofty

shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and

take your fine jewelry and leave you stark

naked.   40 They will bring a mob against you,

who will stone you and hack you to pieces

with their swords.   41 They will burn down your

houses and inflict punishment on you in the

sight of many women. I will put a stop to your

prostitution, and you will no longer pay your

lovers.   42 Then my wrath against you will

subside and my jealous anger will turn away

from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.

   43 " 'Because you did not remember the

days of your youth but enraged me with all

these things, I will surely bring down on your

head what you have done, declares the

Sovereign LORD. Did you not add lewdness to

all your other detestable practices?

   44 " 'Everyone who quotes proverbs will

quote this proverb about you: "Like mother,

like daughter."   45 You are a true daughter of

your mother, who despised her husband and

her children; and you are a true sister of your

sisters, who despised their husbands and their

children. Your mother was a Hittite and your

father an Amorite.   46 Your older sister was

Samaria, who lived to the north of you with

her daughters; and your younger sister, who

lived to the south of you with her daughters,

was Sodom.   47 You not only followed their

ways and copied their detestable practices,

but in all your ways you soon became more

depraved than they.   48 As surely as I live,

declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister

Sodom and her daughters never did what you

and your daughters have done.

   49 " 'Now this was the sin of your sister

Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant,

overfed and unconcerned; they did not help

the poor and needy.   50 They were haughty and

did detestable things before me. Therefore I

did away with them as you have seen.

51 Samaria did not commit half the sins you

did. You have done more detestable things

than they, and have made your sisters seem

righteous by all these things you have done.

52 Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished

some justification for your sisters. Because

your sins were more vile than theirs, they

appear more righteous than you. So then, be

ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have

made your sisters appear righteous.

   53 " 'However, I will restore the fortunes of

Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and

her daughters, and your fortunes along with

them,   54 so that you may bear your disgrace

and be ashamed of all you have done in giving

them comfort.   55 And your sisters, Sodom with

daughters, will return to what they were

before; and you and your daughters will return

to what you were before.   56 You would not

even mention your sister Sodom in the day of

your pride,   57 before your wickedness was

uncovered. Even so, you are now scrned by

the daughters of Edom and all her

neighbors and the daughters of the Philistines

--all those around you who despise you.

58 You will bear the consequences of your

lewdness and your detestable practices,

declares the LORD.

   59 " 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I

will deal with you as you deserve, because you

have despised my oath by breaking the

covenant.   60 Yet I will remember the covenant I

made with you in the days of your youth, and I

will establish an everlasting covenant with

you.   61 Then you will remember your ways and

be ashamed when you receive your sisters,

both those who are older than you and those

who are younger. I will give them to you as

daughters, but not on the basis of my

covenant with you.   62 So I will establish my

covenant with you, and you will know that I

am the LORD.   63 Then, when I make atonement

for you for all you have done, you will

remember and be ashamed and never again

open your mouth because of your humiliation,

declares the Sovereign LORD.' "