Ezekiel 16:7

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Summary

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.

Caused, etc

Excellent ornaments

Whereas

Revelation 3:17

General references

Ezekiel 16:22

Bible References

Caused, etc

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

“But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

Excellent ornaments

I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

But every woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. Thus you will plunder the Egyptians.”

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

“He found him in a desert land,
And in the howling waste of a wilderness;
He encircled him, He cared for him,
He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun,

Who rides the heavens to your help,

And through the skies in His majesty.

“Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, ‘This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His

own possession.

He has not dealt thus with any nation;
And as for His ordinances, they have not known them.

Praise the Lord!

And He has lifted up a horn for His people,

Praise for all His godly ones;

Even for the sons of Israel, a people near to Him.

Praise the Lord!

Let Israel be glad in his Maker;
Let the sons of Zion rejoice in their King.

I will rejoice greatly in the Lord,
My soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

You will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
And a royal diadem in the hand of your God.

Whereas

Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

He said,
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
And naked I shall return there.
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.”

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies.

Or I will strip her naked
And expose her as on the day when she was born.
I will also make her like a wilderness,
Make her like desert land
And slay her with thirst.

Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

General references

Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.