 1 Again the Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations. 3 Say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem, Your origin and your birth is of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born, your navel was not cut. Nor were you washed with water to cleanse you. You were not salted nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born. 6 When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live. Yes, I said to you in your blood, Live. 7 I have caused you to multiply like the bud of the field, and you are grown, and you are great. And you come in the finest ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare. 8 I passed by you and looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God. And you became mine. 9 I washed you with water; I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 I also clothed you with embroidered work, and I shod you with fine leather sandals. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you with silk. 11 I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck. 12 I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 You were adorned with gold and silver. And your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered work. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. And you were exceedingly beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate. 14 Your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty. For it was perfect in my beauty, which I had put on you, says the Lord God. 15 But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your name. You poured out your fornications on all who passed by. It was his. 16 You took from your clothes and adorned your high places with different colors, and fornicated on them, such as had not come, nor shall be. 17 You have taken beautiful things of my gold and of my silver that I had given to you, and made images of males and fornicated with them. 18 You took your embroidered dresses and covered them. You have given to their face my oil and my incense. 19 Also my food that I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey with which I fed you. You have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. It happened, says the Lord God. 20 You have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me. And you gave these to them for food. Are your fornications small? 21 You have killed+ my children and delivered them to cause these to pass through the fire for them. 22 In all your hateful deeds and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and squirming in your blood. 23 Woe, woe to you says the Lord God. For it happened after all your evil. 24 You built yourself a mound and have made for yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at the head of every way and made your beauty to be despised. You have opened your feet to everyone who passed by and multiplied your fornications. 26 You have committed fornication with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors with swollen+ flesh and increased your fornications to provoke me to anger. 27 And, behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way. 28 You have prostituted+ yourself with the Assyrians because you were insatiable. Yes, you committed prostitution+ and yet could not be satisfied. 29 Your infidelity+ is idolatry in the land of Canaan, to the Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this. 30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot; 31 in that you build your mound at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street. Yet you have not been as a harlot, scorning wages. 32 Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers. 33 They give gifts to harlots+ but you give gifts to all your lovers and bribe+ them to come to you from all around for your prostitution+. 34 So you are different from others in your wicked fornication+ since you pay for it and no payment is given to you. In this you are different. 35 Therefore you harlot, hear the Word of the Lord. 36 Thus says the Lord God: Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with your lovers and with all the idols of your abominations and by the blood of your children whom you gave to them, 37 behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you loved, with all whom you have hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will uncover your nakedness to them and they will see all your nakedness. 38 I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with shedders of blood. And I will give you blood and fury and jealousy. 39 I will also give you to them and they will tear down your mound and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful things and leave you naked and bare. 40 They will also raise a company against you and stone you with stones and cut you with their swords. 41 They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop prostituting yourselves. You shall not give hire again. 42 I will make my fury to rest against you and my jealousy will depart from you. I will no longer be quiet and angry. 43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have troubled me in all these things. So, behold, I will also repay your way on your head, says the Lord God. And you shall not commit this wickedness above all your abominations. 44 Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you saying, As the mother, so is her daughter. 45 You are your mother's daughter, who despises her husband and her children. You are the sister of your sisters who despise their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 Your older sister is Samaria. She and her daughters live at your left hand. And your younger sister who lives at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 Yet you have not walked according to their ways, nor done according to their hateful deeds. But, as if it were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they were in all your ways. 48 As I live, says the Lord God, Sodom your sister, she nor her daughters, has not done as you have done, you and your daughters. 49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom. Pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and did abominable things before me, so I turned away as I saw fit. 51 Nor has Samaria sinned as much as half your sins. But you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations that you have done. 52 You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins which you have committed more abominable than they. They are more righteous than you. Yes, blush and bear your shame, since you have justified your sisters. 53 When I shall return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then also the captivity of your captivity in their midst; 54 that you may bear your shame and blush in all that you have done since you are a comfort to them. 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from all around. 58 You are bearing your wickedness and your abominations, says the Lord. 59 For thus says the Lord God: I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant. 60 But I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant. 61 You shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your older and your younger. And I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant. 62 I will establish my covenant with you and you will know that I am the Lord. 63 This so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you for all that you have done, says the Lord God.
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