ULT EZE Chapter 16

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16 Then the word of Yahweh was to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, make Jerusalem know her abominations, 3 and you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origins and your birth, are from the land of the Canaanites; your father was the Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. 4 And your birth—on the day of your being born, your navel cord was not cut, and with water you were not washed for cleansing. And, being salted, you were not salted, and, being swathed, you were not swathed. 5 An eye did not have pity on you, to do for you one of these things, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown to the face of the field with the disdain of your life, on the day of your being born.

6 Then I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood. So I said to you in your blood, “Live!” And I said to you in your blood, “Live!” 7 Ten thousand, like a sprout of the field, I made you, and you multiplied, and you grew up, and you came to the jewelry of jewelry. Your breasts were established, and your hair sprouted, but you, were naked and bare.

8 Then I passed by you, and I saw you, and look!—your time, was the time of lovers. So I spread my wing over you, and I covered your nakedness; and I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—and you became mine.

9 Then I washed you with the water, and I rinsed your blood from on you, and I anointed you with oil. 10 And I clothed you, with embroidery and fastened you, with leather, and I wrapped you, with linen, and I covered you, with silk. 11 And I bejeweled you, with jewelry, and I placed bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck. 12 And I placed a ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a crown of beauty on your head. 13 And you were bejeweled, with gold and silver, and your clothing, was linen and silk and embroidery. Flour and honey and oil you ate, and you became beautiful—very, very!—and you prospered to royalty. 14 And a name went out for you among the nations of your beauty, for it was complete by my majesty that I had put on you—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.

15 But you trusted in your beauty, so you prostituted yourself on account of your name. And you poured out your prostitutions onto everyone passing by—and of him it would become. 16 And you took some of your garments, and you made for yourself spotted high places, and you prostituted yourself on them. To him, you went, and of him, it became. 17 And you took the ornaments of your beauty from my gold and from my silver that I gave you, and you made for yourself images of a male, and you prostituted yourself with them. 18 And you took the clothing of your embroidery, and you covered them. And my oil and my incense you placed to their face. 19 And my bread that I gave to you—flour and oil and honey I fed you— you placed it to their face as a scent of pleasing. And it was—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.

20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to me, and you sacrificed them to them to eat. Was it little of your prostitutions, 21 that you slaughtered my sons, and you gave them by making them pass through for them? 22 And with all your abominations and your prostitutions, you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare; you were kicking about in your blood.

23 And it was, after all your evil—woe, woe to you!—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—24 that you built yourself a mound, and you made yourself a platform in every plaza. 25 At the head of every road, you built your platform, and you desecrated your beauty, and you spread your legs to everyone passing by, and you multiplied your prostitutions. 26 Then you prostituted yourself to the sons of Egypt, your neighbors great of flesh, and you multiplied your prostitution to anger me. 27 And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you to the appetite of the ones hating you, the daughters of the Philistines, the ones ashamed from your way of obscenity. 28 And you prostituted yourself to the sons of Assyria without your satiation, and you prostituted yourself with them, and yet you were not satisfied. 29 And you multiplied your prostitution toward the land of merchants, toward Chaldea; and even in this you were not satisfied.

30 How sick, is your heart—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—when you did all these, the deed of a woman of a brazen prostitute! 31 When you built your mound at the head of every road, and your platform you made at every plaza, but you were not like the prostitute, by scorning wages.

32 The adulterous woman—instead of her husband, she takes strangers! 33 To all prostitutes, they give a gift, but you—you gave your gifts to all your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in exchange for your prostitutions. 34 And it was with you the opposite from the women in your prostitutions; and after you, one did not prostitute. So, when you gave payment, and payment was not given to you, you became the opposite.

35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh! 36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your passion was poured out, and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitutions with your lovers, and because of all the idols of your abominations, and like the blood of your sons whom you gave to them, 37 therefore, look at me!—gathering all your lovers, whom you were pleasing to them, and all whom you loved, along with all whom you hated. And I will gather them against you from all around, and I will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you with the judgments of adulteresses and shedders of blood, and I will make you the blood of heat and jealousy. 39 So I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound and break down your platforms, and they will strip you of your clothing, and they will take the vessels of your beauty, and they will leave you naked and bare. 40 And they will bring up against you an assembly, and they will stone you with stones, and they will slaughter you with their swords. 41 And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will do judgments against you to the eyes of many women; and I will make you cease from prostituting yourself, and also you will no longer give wages. 42 And I will pacify my heat against you, and my jealousy will turn aside from you, and I will be quiet, and no longer will I be angry.

43 Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but you agitated me with all these, so I—behold!—I have placed your way on your head—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh. And have you not done this obscenity alongside all your abominations?

44 Look! Everyone who uses a proverb against you—they will use a proverb, saying, “As the mother is her daughter.” 45 The daughter of your mother, are you, the one loathing her husband and her sons, and the sister of your sisters, are you, who loathed their husbands and their sons. Your mother, was a Hittite, and your father, was an Amorite. 46 And your sister, the greater one, is Samaria, she and her daughters, the one dwelling on your left; and your sister, the one smaller than you, the one dwelling on your right, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 And in their ways did you not walk, and according to their abominations did you not act? In very little time, so you were corrupt, more than them, in all your ways. 48 The life of me—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh—if Sodom your sister, she and her daughters, did just as you have done—you and your daughters!

49 Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of bread, and quiet ease belonged to her and to her daughters, but the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen. 50 And they were haughty, and they did an abomination to my face, so I removed them, just as I saw. 51 And Samaria—as half of your sins she did not sin, but you multiplied your abominations more than they, and you made your sister righteous by all your abominations that you did. 52 Also you—carry your humiliation that you have adjudged for your sister. In your sins—in which you acted more abominably than they—they are more righteous than you. So you also, be ashamed and carry your humiliation of your making your sisters righteous.

53 And I will restore their fortune—the fortune of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortune of Samaria and her daughters—and the fortunes of your fortunes in their midst, 54 so that you may carry your humiliation and be humiliated because of all that you did, when you comforted them. 55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters—they will return to their former state; and Samaria and her daughters—they will return to their former state; and you and your daughters—you will return to your former state. 56 And did not Sodom your sister become a report in your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 before your evil was uncovered? Like her, you are the reproach of the daughters of Aram and all, those all around her, the daughters of the Philistines, the ones despising you from all around. 58 Your obscenity and your abominations, you yourself have carried them—the declaration of Yahweh.

59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: So I will do to you just as you have done, when you despised an oath by breaking a covenant. 60 But I myself will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 Then you will remember your ways, and you will be humiliated when you take your sisters, the ones greater than you, along with the ones smaller than you; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not from your covenant. 62 And I myself will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh, 63 so that you may remember and you may be ashamed, and no longer will an opening of the mouth be for you from the face of your humiliation, when I make atonement for you for all that you have done—the declaration of the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

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