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God's
Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem |
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Ezekiel 16:1
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Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
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Ezekiel 16:2
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"Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations
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Ezekiel 16:3
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and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem,
"Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was
an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. |
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Ezekiel 16:4
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"As for your birth, on the day you were born
your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you
were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. |
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Ezekiel 16:5
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"No eye looked with pity on you to do any of
these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into
the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born. |
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Ezekiel 16:6
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"When I passed by you and saw you squirming
in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said
to you while you were in your blood, 'Live!' |
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Ezekiel 16:7
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"I made you numerous like plants of the field.
Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts
were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare. |
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Ezekiel 16:8
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"Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold,
you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your
nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you
became Mine," declares the Lord GOD. |
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Ezekiel 16:9
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"Then I bathed you with water, washed off your
blood from you and anointed you with oil. |
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Ezekiel 16:10
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"I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and
put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and
covered you with silk. |
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Ezekiel 16:11
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"I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets
on your hands and a necklace around your neck. |
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Ezekiel 16:12
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"I also put a ring in your nostril, earrings
in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. |
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Ezekiel 16:13
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"Thus you were adorned with gold and silver,
and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour,
honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. |
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Ezekiel 16:14
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"Then your fame went forth among the nations
on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed
on you," declares the Lord GOD. |
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Ezekiel 16:15
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"But you trusted in your beauty and played the
harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by
who might be willing. |
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Ezekiel 16:16
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"You took some of your clothes, made for yourself
high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, which should never
come about nor happen. |
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Ezekiel 16:17
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"You also took your beautiful jewels made of
My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images
that you might play the harlot with them. |
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Ezekiel 16:18
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"Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered
them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. |
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Ezekiel 16:19
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"Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour,
oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing
aroma; so it happened," declares the Lord GOD. |
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Ezekiel 16:20
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"Moreover, you took your sons and daughters
whom you had borne to Me and sacrificed them to idols to be devoured. Were your
harlotries so small a matter? |
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Ezekiel 16:21
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"You slaughtered My children and offered them
up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire. |
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Ezekiel 16:22
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"Besides all your abominations and harlotries
you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and
squirming in your blood. |
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Ezekiel 16:23
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"Then it came about after all your wickedness
('Woe, woe to you!' declares the Lord GOD), |
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Ezekiel 16:24
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that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself
a high place in every square. |
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Ezekiel 16:25
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"You built yourself a high place at the top
of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every
passer-by to multiply your harlotry. |
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Ezekiel 16:26
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"You also played the harlot with the Egyptians,
your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry. |
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Ezekiel 16:27
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"Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against
you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those
who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct.
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Ezekiel 16:28
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"Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians
because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were
not satisfied. |
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Ezekiel 16:29
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"You also multiplied your harlotry with the
land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied."'" |
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Ezekiel 16:30
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"How languishing is your heart," declares the
Lord GOD, "while you do all these things, the actions of a bold-faced harlot.
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Ezekiel 16:31
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"When you built your shrine at the beginning
of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money,
you were not like a harlot. |
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Ezekiel 16:32
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"You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead
of her husband! |
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Ezekiel 16:33
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"Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give
your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction
for your harlotries. |
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Ezekiel 16:34
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"Thus you are different from those women in
your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money
and no money is given you; thus you are different." |
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Ezekiel 16:35
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Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD.
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Ezekiel 16:36
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Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your lewdness
was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your
lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons
which you gave to idols, |
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Ezekiel 16:37
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therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers
with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom
you hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and expose your
nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. |
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Ezekiel 16:38
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"Thus I will judge you like women who commit
adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath
and jealousy. |
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Ezekiel 16:39
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"I will also give you into the hands of your
lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip
you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.
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Ezekiel 16:40
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"They will incite a crowd against you and they
will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. |
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Ezekiel 16:41
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"They will burn your houses with fire and execute
judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing
the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers. |
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Ezekiel 16:42
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"So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy
will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more. |
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Ezekiel 16:43
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"Because you have not remembered the days of
your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring
your conduct down on your own head," declares the Lord GOD, "so that you will
not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations. |
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Ezekiel 16:44
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"Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote
this proverb concerning you, saying, 'Like mother, like daughter.' |
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Ezekiel 16:45
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"You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed
her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed
their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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Ezekiel 16:46
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"Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives
north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you,
is Sodom with her daughters. |
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Ezekiel 16:47
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"Yet you have not merely walked in their ways
or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you
acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they. |
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Ezekiel 16:48
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"As I live," declares the Lord GOD, "Sodom,
your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
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Ezekiel 16:49
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"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom:
she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food and careless ease, but she
did not help the poor and needy. |
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Ezekiel 16:50
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"Thus they were haughty and committed abominations
before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it. |
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Ezekiel 16:51
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"Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of
your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you
have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have
committed. |
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Ezekiel 16:52
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"Also bear your disgrace in that you have made
judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more
abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed
and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous. |
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Ezekiel 16:53
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"Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity,
the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
and along with them your own captivity, |
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Ezekiel 16:54
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in order that you may bear your humiliation
and feel ashamed for all that you have done when you become a consolation to them.
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Ezekiel 16:55
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"Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and
Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state, and you with your
daughters will also return to your former state. |
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Ezekiel 16:56
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"As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard
from your lips in your day of pride, |
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Ezekiel 16:57
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before your wickedness was uncovered, so now
you have become the reproach of the daughters of Edom and of all who are around
her, of the daughters of the Philistines--those surrounding you who despise you. |
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Ezekiel 16:58
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"You have borne the penalty of your lewdness
and abominations," the LORD declares. |
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Ezekiel 16:59
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For thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also do
with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant. |
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The Covenant Remembered |
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Ezekiel 16:60
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"Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with
you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with
you. |
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Ezekiel 16:61
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"Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed
when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give
them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant. |
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Ezekiel 16:62
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"Thus I will establish My covenant with you,
and you shall know that I am the LORD, |
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Ezekiel 16:63
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so that you may remember and be ashamed and
never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have forgiven
you for all that you have done," the Lord GOD declares. |
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