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Chapter 16 |
| 1 | Again the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, cause Jerusalem to
know her abominations, |
| 3 | And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto
Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was
an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. |
| 4 | And as for thy nativity, in the
day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to
supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. |
| 5 | None
eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee;
but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the
day that thou wast born. |
| 6 | And when I passed by thee, and saw thee
polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood,
Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. |
| 7 | I have
caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and
waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are
fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
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| 8 | Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was
the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness:
yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord
GOD, and thou becamest mine. |
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9 | Then washed I thee with water; yea, I
throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
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| 10 | I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers'
skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with
silk. |
| 11 |
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon
thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. |
| 12 | And I put a jewel on thy
forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine
head. |
| 13 |
Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment
was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into
a kingdom. |
| 14
| And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee,
saith the Lord GOD. |
| 15 | But thou didst trust in thine own beauty,
and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. |
| 16 | And of thy
garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and
playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it
be so. |
| 17
| Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my
silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them, |
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18 | And tookest thy broidered garments,
and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before
them. |
| 19 |
My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet
savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. |
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20 | Moreover thou hast
taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast
thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small
matter, |
| 21
| That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to
cause them to pass through the fire for them? |
| 22 | And in all
thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.
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| 23 | And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith
the LORD GOD;) |
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24 | That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. |
| 25 | Thou
hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to
be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and
multiplied thy whoredoms. |
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26 | Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. |
| 27 | Behold, therefore I have
stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and
delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the
Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. |
| 28 | Thou hast
played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea,
thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
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| 29 | Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto
Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith. |
| 30 | How weak is
thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work
of an imperious whorish woman; |
| 31 | In that thou buildest thine
eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every
street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; |
| 32 |
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her
husband! |
| 33
| They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts
to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side
for thy whoredom. |
| 34 | And the contrary is in thee from other women
in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that
thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art
contrary. |
| 35
| Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
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| 36 | Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy
nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the
idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them; |
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37 | Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers,
with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all
them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee,
and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy
nakedness. |
| 38
| And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and
shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
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| 39 | And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down
thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip
thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked
and bare. |
| 40
| They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they
shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
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| 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 also shalt give no hire any more. |
| 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. |
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43 | Because thou hast not
remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things;
behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the
Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine
abominations. |
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44 | Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use
this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
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| 45 | Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her
children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands
and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an
Amorite. |
| 46
| And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right
hand, is Sodom and her daughters. |
| 47 | Yet hast thou not walked
after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a
very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
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| 48 | As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor
her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. |
| 49 | Behold,
this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and
abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she
strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. |
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50 | And they were haughty,
and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw
good. |
| 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. |
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52 | Thou also, which hast
judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed
more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou
confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy
sisters. |
| 53
| When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity
of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters,
then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of
them: |
| 54 |
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto
them. |
| 55 |
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to
their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former
estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
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| 56 | For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
pride, |
| 57
| Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of
thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. |
| 58 | Thou
hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. |
| 59 | For
thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which
hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. |
| 60 | Nevertheless
I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will
establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. |
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61 | Then thou shalt
remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine
elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by
thy covenant. |
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62 | And I will establish my covenant with thee; and
thou shalt know that I am the LORD: |
| 63 | That thou mayest remember,
and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when
I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD. |
