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Indeed, I say to you in your blood, Live! <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I have made you a myriad as the shoot of the field, "" And you are multiplied, and are great, "" And come in with an excellent adornment, "" Breasts have been formed, and your hair has grown—And you, naked and bare!<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I pass over by you, and I see you, "" And behold, your time [is] a time of loves, "" And I spread My skirt over you, "" And I cover your nakedness, "" And I swear to you, and come into a covenant with you, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH, "" And you become Mine. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I wash you with water, "" And I wash away your blood from off you, "" And I anoint you with oil. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I clothe you with embroidery, "" And I shoe you with tachash [skin], "" And I gird you with fine linen, "" And I cover you with figured silk. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I adorn you with adornments, "" And I give bracelets for your hands, "" And a chain for your neck. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I give a ring for your nose, "" And rings for your ears, "" And a crown of beauty on your head. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you put on gold and silver, "" And your clothing [is] fine linen, "" And figured silk and embroidery, "" You have eaten fine flour, and honey, and oil, "" And you are very, very beautiful, "" And go prosperously to the kingdom. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And your name goes forth among nations, "" Because of your beauty—for it [is] complete, "" In My honor that I have set on you, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And you trust in your beauty, "" And go whoring because of your renown, "" And pour out your whoredoms on everyone passing by—to him [that would have] it. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And you take from your garments, "" And make spotted high-places for yourself, "" And go whoring on them, "" They are not coming in—nor will it be! <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And you take your beautiful vessels "" Of My gold and My silver that I gave to you, "" And make images of a male for yourself, "" And go whoring with them, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And you take the garments of your embroidery, "" And cover them, "" And you have set My oil and My incense before them. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And My bread, that I gave to you, "" Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused you to eat. You have even set it before them, "" For a refreshing fragrance—thus it is, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And you take your sons and your daughters whom you have born to Me, "" And sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of your whoredoms, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>that you slaughter My sons, "" And give them up in causing them to pass over to them? <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And with all your abominations and your whoredoms, "" You have not remembered the days of your youth, "" When you were naked and bare, "" You were trodden down in your blood!<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, after all your wickedness "" (Woe, woe, to you—a declaration of Lord YHWH), <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>That you build an arch for yourself, "" And make a high place for yourself in every broad place. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>At every head of the way you have built your high place, "" And you make your beauty abominable, "" And open wide your feet to everyone passing by, "" And multiply your whoredoms, <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And go whoring to sons of Egypt, "" Your neighbors—great of appetite! And you multiply your whoredoms, "" To provoke Me to anger. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And behold, I have stretched out My hand against you, "" And I diminish your portion, "" And give you to the desire of those hating you, "" The daughters of the Philistines, "" Who are ashamed of your wicked way. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And you go whoring to sons of Asshur, "" Without your being satisfied, "" And you go whoring with them, "" And also—you have not been satisfied. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And you multiply your whoredoms "" On the land of Canaan—toward Chaldea, "" And even with this you have not been satisfied.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>How weak [is] your heart, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH, "" In your doing all these, "" The work of a domineering, whorish woman. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>In your building your arch at the head of every way, "" You have made your high place in every broad place, "" And have not been as a whore deriding a wage. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The wife who commits adultery—Under her husband—receives strangers. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>They give a gift to all whores, "" And you have given your gifts to all your lovers, "" And bribe them to come in to you, "" From all around—in your whoredoms. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And you are opposite from [other] women in your whoredoms, "" That none go whoring after you; And in your giving a wage, "" And a wage has not been given to you; Therefore you are the opposite.<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Therefore, O whore, hear a word of YHWH! <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Thus said Lord YHWH: Because of your bronze being poured forth, "" And your nakedness is revealed in your whoredoms near your lovers, "" And near all the idols of your abominations, "" And according to the blood of your sons, "" Whom you have given to them; <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Therefore, behold, I am assembling all your lovers, "" To whom you have been sweet, "" And all whom you have loved, "" Besides all whom you have hated; And I have assembled them by you all around, "" And have revealed your nakedness to them, "" And they have seen all your nakedness. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And I have judged you—judgments of adultresses, "" And of women shedding blood, "" And have given you blood, fury, and jealousy. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And I have given you into their hand, "" And they have thrown down your arch, "" And they have broken down your high places, "" And they have stripped you of your garments, "" And they have taken your beautiful vessels, "" And they have left you naked and bare. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And have caused an assembly to come up against you, "" And stoned you with stones, "" And thrust you through with their swords, <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And burned your houses with fire, "" And done judgments in you before the eyes of many women, "" And I have caused you to cease from going whoring, "" And also, you no longer give a wage. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And I have caused My fury against you to rest, "" And My jealousy has turned aside from you, "" And I have been quiet, and I am not angry anymore. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, "" And give trouble to Me in all these, "" Therefore I also—behold—I put your way on [your own] head, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH, "" And you will not have done—have done this wickedness above all your abominations.<p> <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Behold, everyone using the allegory against you, "" Uses [this] allegory concerning [you], saying, "" As the mother—her daughter! <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>You [are] your mother’s daughter, "" Loathing her husband and her sons, "" And you [are] your sisters’ sister, "" Who loathed their husbands and their sons, "" Your mother [is] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>And your older sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters, "" Who is dwelling at your left hand, "" And your younger sister, who is dwelling on your right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters. <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>And you have not walked in their ways, "" And done according to their abominations, "" It has been loathed as a little thing, "" Indeed, you do more corruptly than they in all your ways. <A name="49"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>[As] I live—a declaration of Lord YHWH, "" Your sister Sodom has not done—she and her daughters—As you have done—you and your daughters. <A name="50"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>Behold, this has been the iniquity of your sister Sodom, "" Arrogancy, fullness of bread, and quiet ease, "" Have been to her and to her daughters, "" And the hand of the afflicted and needy "" She has not strengthened. <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, "" And I turn them aside when I have seen. <A name="52"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>And Samaria has not sinned even half of your sins, "" But you multiply your abominations more than they, "" And justify your sisters by all your abominations that you have done. <A name="53"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>You also—bear your shame, "" That you have adjudged for your sisters, "" Because of your sins that you have done more abominably than they, "" They are more righteous than you, "" And you, also, be ashamed and bear your shame, "" In your justifying your sisters.<p> <A name="54"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>And I have turned back [to] their captivity, "" The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, "" And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, "" And the captivity of your captives in their midst, <A name="55"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>So that you bear your shame, "" And have been ashamed of all that you have done, "" In your comforting them. <A name="56"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, "" Return to their former state, "" And Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, "" And you and your daughters return to your former state. <A name="57"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-56.htm"><b>56</b></a></span>And your sister Sodom has not been for a report in your mouth, "" In the day of your arrogancy, <A name="58"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-57.htm"><b>57</b></a></span>Before your wickedness is revealed, "" As [at] the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, "" And of all her neighbors, the daughters of the Philistines, "" Who are despising you all around. <A name="59"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-58.htm"><b>58</b></a></span>Your wicked plans and your abominations, "" You have borne them, a declaration of YHWH.<p> <A name="60"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-59.htm"><b>59</b></a></span>For thus said Lord YHWH: I have dealt with you as you have done, "" In that you have despised an oath—to break covenant.<p> <A name="61"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-60.htm"><b>60</b></a></span>And I have remembered My covenant with you, "" In the days of your youth, "" And I have established a perpetual covenant for you. <A name="62"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-61.htm"><b>61</b></a></span>And you have remembered your ways, "" And you have been ashamed, "" In your receiving your sisters—Your older with your younger, "" And I have given them to you for daughters, "" And not by your covenant. <A name="63"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-62.htm"><b>62</b></a></span>And I have established My covenant with you, "" And you have known that I [am] YHWH. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/16-63.htm"><b>63</b></a></span>So that you remember, "" And you have been ashamed, "" And there is not an opening of the mouth to you anymore because of your shame, "" In My receiving atonement for you, "" For all that you have done, "" A declaration of Lord YHWH!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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