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And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, and you became mine. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or with rich fabric">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28">b</a></sup></span> because of your renown and lavished your whorings<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36">c</a></sup></span> on any passerby; your beauty<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew it">d</a></sup></span> became his. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain">e</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>), <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew spreading your legs">f</a></sup></span> to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“How sick is your heart,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you">g</a></sup></span> declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>As I live, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts (compare Syriac) of Edom">h</a></sup></span> and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="heading">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Everlasting Covenant</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>“For thus says the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or not apart from">i</a></sup></span> the covenant with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/16-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span>.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Or <i>with rich fabric</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>were unfaithful</i>; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28<br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Or <i>unfaithfulness</i>; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Hebrew <i>it</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">25</span> Hebrew <i>spreading your legs</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> Revocalization yields <i><span class="catch-word">How</span> I am filled with anger against you</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">57</span> Some manuscripts (compare Syriac) <i><span class="catch-word">of</span> Edom</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">61</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">not</span> apart from</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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