Ezekiel 16:36

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Summary

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;

Because

Zephaniah 3:1

And thy

Revelation 3:18

And by

Ezekiel 16:20

Jeremiah 2:34

Bible References

Because

But you trusted your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

She did not forsake her acts of fornication from the time in Egypt. In her youth men had lain with her. They handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I would have cleansed you, yet you are not clean. You will not be cleansed from your filthiness again until I have spent my anger on you.

I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.

In her skirts were her unclean ways. She did not think of the future. Her fall has been a wonder. She has no comforter: See her sorrow, O Jehovah, for the enemy is lifted up.

Woe to the oppressive city for she is rebellious and polluted (defiled)!

And thy

They uncovered her nakedness. They took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. Thus she became a byword among women, and they executed judgments on her.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened. They realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

If I say: Certainly the darkness will overwhelm me! Then the light around me will be night.

If you ask yourself: 'Why do these things happen to me?' It is because you have so many sins. Your clothes have been torn off and your limbs are bare.

I counsel you to buy gold from me, gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed. In this way the shame of your nakedness will not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

And by

You took your sons and daughters, who belonged to me, and you sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough?

You have bloodstains from innocent poor people on your clothes. You did not kill them for breaking in to your home.