| 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. |
| 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. |
|
9 | Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy
blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. |
|
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, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 23 | And it came to
pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 44 |
Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee,
saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
