Ezekiel Chapter 16

• Ezekiel 16:1
  Ezekiel.
• Ezekiel 16:2
  Again the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
• Ezekiel 16:3
  “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
• Ezekiel 16:4
  and say, ‘The Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was...
• Ezekiel 16:5
  As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped...
• Ezekiel 16:6
  No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in ...
• Ezekiel 16:7
  “‘“When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are...
• Ezekiel 16:8
  I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent beauty. Your breasts were f...
• Ezekiel 16:9
  “‘“Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Y...
• Ezekiel 16:10
  “‘“Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
• Ezekiel 16:11
  I clothed you also with embroidered work and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
• Ezekiel 16:12
  I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.
• Ezekiel 16:13
  I put a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
• Ezekiel 16:14
  Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were e...
• Ezekiel 16:15
  Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 16:16
  “‘“But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by. It wa...
• Ezekiel 16:17
  You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shouldn’t happ...
• Ezekiel 16:18
  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 played the prostitute...
• Ezekiel 16:19
  You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.
• Ezekiel 16:20
  My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and so it was,” sa...
• Ezekiel 16:21
  “‘“Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and you have sacrificed these to them to be devoured. Was your pro...
• Ezekiel 16:22
  that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?
• Ezekiel 16:23
  In all your abominations and your prostitution you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were wallowing in you...
• Ezekiel 16:24
  “‘“It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord GOD—
• Ezekiel 16:25
  “that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.
• Ezekiel 16:26
  You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed b...
• Ezekiel 16:27
  You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to ...
• Ezekiel 16:28
  See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your portion, and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daugh...
• Ezekiel 16:29
  You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’...
• Ezekiel 16:30
  You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.
• Ezekiel 16:31
  “‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord GOD, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
• Ezekiel 16:32
  in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that y...
• Ezekiel 16:33
  “‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
• Ezekiel 16:34
  People give gifts to all prostitutes; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe them, that they may come to you on every side for your pro...
• Ezekiel 16:35
  You are different from other women in your prostitution, in that no one follows you to play the prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is ...
• Ezekiel 16:36
  “Therefore, prostitute, hear the LORD’s word:
• Ezekiel 16:37
  ‘The Lord GOD says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of a...
• Ezekiel 16:38
  therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all those whom you have loved, with all those whom you have hated...
• Ezekiel 16:39
  I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
• Ezekiel 16:40
  I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places. They will strip you of your cloth...
• Ezekiel 16:41
  They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
• Ezekiel 16:42
  They will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, ...
• Ezekiel 16:43
  So I will cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you. I will be quiet, and will not be angry any more.
• Ezekiel 16:44
  “‘“Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your wa...
• Ezekiel 16:45
  “‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’
• Ezekiel 16:46
  You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and ...
• Ezekiel 16:47
  Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom wi...
• Ezekiel 16:48
  Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
• Ezekiel 16:49
  As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
• Ezekiel 16:50
  “‘“Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t ...
• Ezekiel 16:51
  They were arrogant and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
• Ezekiel 16:52
  Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abom...
• Ezekiel 16:53
  You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable tha...
• Ezekiel 16:54
  “‘“I will reverse their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your...
• Ezekiel 16:55
  that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
• Ezekiel 16:56
  Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you a...
• Ezekiel 16:57
  For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
• Ezekiel 16:58
  before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are around her, the daughters of the Ph...
• Ezekiel 16:59
  You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says the LORD.
• Ezekiel 16:60
  “‘For the Lord GOD says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
• Ezekiel 16:61
  Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
• Ezekiel 16:62
  Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for da...
• Ezekiel 16:63
  I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the LORD;
• Ezekiel 16:64
  that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” ...