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Ezekiel 16:1 (show verse)
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezekiel 16:2 (show verse)
Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
Ezekiel 16:3 (show verse)
And say, Thus says the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
Ezekiel 16:4 (show verse)
And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all.
Ablution » Of infants
Adoption » Is of God's grace
Children » Treatment of, at birth
Children » Treatment of, after birth, noticed
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Navel » Treatment of, at birth
Salt » Used for » Strengthening new-born infants
Sanitation » Childbirth
Swaddle » Wrapping » Of children
Adoption » Is of God's grace
Children » Treatment of, at birth
Children » Treatment of, after birth, noticed
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Navel » Treatment of, at birth
Salt » Used for » Strengthening new-born infants
Sanitation » Childbirth
Swaddle » Wrapping » Of children
Ezekiel 16:5 (show verse)
No eye pitied you, to do any of these unto you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, and you were loathed, in the day that you were born.
Ezekiel 16:6 (show verse)
And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live; yea, I said unto you when you were in your blood, Live.
Ezekiel 16:7 (show verse)
I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and become great, and you are come to excellent beauty: your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:8 (show verse)
Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I swore unto you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
Ezekiel 16:9 (show verse)
Then I washed you with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
Ezekiel 16:10 (show verse)
I clothed you also with embroidered work, and gave you sandals of badgers' skin, and I clothed you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
Badger » For shoes
Beasts » Unclean » Badger
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Embroidery » On the garments of women
Girdles » Made of » Fine linen
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Shoe » Made of badgers' (dugong, porpoise?) Skins
Shoes » Of ladies of distinction » Often made of badgers' skins
Silk » Wearing apparel made of
Beasts » Unclean » Badger
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Embroidery » On the garments of women
Girdles » Made of » Fine linen
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Shoe » Made of badgers' (dugong, porpoise?) Skins
Shoes » Of ladies of distinction » Often made of badgers' skins
Silk » Wearing apparel made of
Ezekiel 16:11 (show verse)
I adorned you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
Adorning » Rich apparel » Ornaments, wearing of
Adorning » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Bracelet » Figurative
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Ornaments, wearing of
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Adorning » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Bracelet » Figurative
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Ornaments, wearing of
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Chains used as ornaments
Ezekiel 16:12 (show verse)
And I put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
Adorning » Rich apparel » Earrings
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Crown » An ornament
ears » Often adorned with rings
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Nose » Jewels for
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Earrings
Precious stones » Called » Jewels
Rings » Were worn » In the ears
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
Crown » An ornament
ears » Often adorned with rings
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Nose » Jewels for
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Earrings
Precious stones » Called » Jewels
Rings » Were worn » In the ears
Ezekiel 16:13 (show verse)
Thus were you adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceedingly beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.
Bride » Figurative
Bridegroom » Figurative
the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Oil
Embroidery » On the garments of women
Food » Articles of » Oil
Honey » Was eaten » Mixed with flour
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Oil » For food
Oil » Used for food
Oil » Used » For food
Olive oil » For food
Silk » Wearing apparel made of
Bridegroom » Figurative
the Diet of the jews » Articles used for » Oil
Embroidery » On the garments of women
Food » Articles of » Oil
Honey » Was eaten » Mixed with flour
Ingratitude to God » Illustrated
Jewels » Tokens of love
Linen » Garments » For women made of
Oil » For food
Oil » Used for food
Oil » Used » For food
Olive oil » For food
Silk » Wearing apparel made of
Ezekiel 16:14 (show verse)
And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty: for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had put upon you, says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:15 (show verse)
But you did trust in your own beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your harlotry on every one that passed by; his it was.
Ezekiel 16:16 (show verse)
And of your garments you did take, and adorned your high places with various colors, and played the harlot on them: the like things have never been, neither shall be.
Ezekiel 16:17 (show verse)
You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit harlotry with them,
Ezekiel 16:18 (show verse)
And took your embroidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.
Ezekiel 16:19 (show verse)
My food also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet aroma: and thus it was, says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 16:20 (show verse)
Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne unto me, and these have you sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this act of your harlotries a small matter,
Ezekiel 16:21 (show verse)
That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 16:22 (show verse)
And in all your abominations and your harlotries you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were polluted in your blood.
Ezekiel 16:23 (show verse)
And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe unto you! says the Lord GOD;)
Ezekiel 16:24 (show verse)
That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:25 (show verse)
You have built your high place at the head of every street, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have offered yourself to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your harlotries.
Ezekiel 16:26 (show verse)
You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, strong in lust; and have increased your harlotries, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:27 (show verse)
Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your allowance of food, and delivered you unto the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
Ezekiel 16:28 (show verse)
You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yea, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29 (show verse)
You have moreover multiplied your harlotry with trading in the land of Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied with this.
Ezekiel 16:30 (show verse)
How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of a brazen harlot;
Ezekiel 16:31 (show verse)
In that you build your shrine at the head of every street, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorned payment;
Ezekiel 16:32 (show verse)
But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!
Ezekiel 16:33 (show verse)
They give gifts to all harlots: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come unto you on every side for your harlotry.
Ezekiel 16:34 (show verse)
And you are different from other women in your harlotries, therefore none follows you to commit harlotries: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given unto you, therefore you are different.
Ezekiel 16:35 (show verse)
Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:36 (show verse)
Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you did give unto them;
Ezekiel 16:37 (show verse)
Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will uncover your nakedness unto them, that they may see all your nakedness.
Ezekiel 16:38 (show verse)
And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.
Ezekiel 16:39 (show verse)
And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrine, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 16:40 (show verse)
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
Ezekiel 16:41 (show verse)
And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more.
Ezekiel 16:42 (show verse)
So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Ezekiel 16:43 (show verse)
Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon your head, says the Lord GOD: and you shall not commit this lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
Ezekiel 16:44 (show verse)
Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Ezekiel 16:45 (show verse)
You are your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
Ezekiel 16:46 (show verse)
And your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Ezekiel 16:47 (show verse)
Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
Ezekiel 16:48 (show verse)
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 16:49 (show verse)
Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
Bread » Illustrative » (fulness of,) of abundance
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
Lasciviousness » Figurative
Prosperity » Perils of » Warnings against worldly fulness
Sin » National, punishment of
national Sins » Often caused by prosperity
Sodom » Wickedness of the inhabitants of
Sodom » Figurative » Of wickedness
Fulness » Spiritual » Warnings against worldly fulness
Lasciviousness » Figurative
Prosperity » Perils of » Warnings against worldly fulness
Sin » National, punishment of
national Sins » Often caused by prosperity
Sodom » Wickedness of the inhabitants of
Sodom » Figurative » Of wickedness
Ezekiel 16:50 (show verse)
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
Ezekiel 16:51 (show verse)
Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.
Ezekiel 16:52 (show verse)
You also, who have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than you: yea, be disgraced also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
Ezekiel 16:53 (show verse)
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of your captives in the midst of them:
Ezekiel 16:54 (show verse)
That you may bear your own shame, and may be disgraced in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort unto them.
Ezekiel 16:55 (show verse)
When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
Ezekiel 16:56 (show verse)
For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
Ezekiel 16:57 (show verse)
Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of your reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise you round about.
Ezekiel 16:58 (show verse)
You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:59 (show verse)
For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
Covenant » Of God with men » Broken by the jews
Falsehood » Instances of » Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to nebuchadnezzer
Jews, the » National character of » Unfaithful to covenant engagements
Lasciviousness » Figurative
Punishment » According to deeds
Swearing falsely » Exemplified » Jews
Falsehood » Instances of » Zedekiah, in violating his oath of allegiance to nebuchadnezzer
Jews, the » National character of » Unfaithful to covenant engagements
Lasciviousness » Figurative
Punishment » According to deeds
Swearing falsely » Exemplified » Jews
Ezekiel 16:60 (show verse)
Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish unto you an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 16:61 (show verse)
Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, your elder and your younger: and I will give them unto you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
Ezekiel 16:62 (show verse)
And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD:
Ezekiel 16:63 (show verse)
That you may remember, and be ashamed, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I provide toward you an atonement for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.