Ezekiel 16

1Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;Cross-references: Isa 58:1 · Ezek 8:9 · Ezek 20:4 · Ezek 22:2 · Ezek 23:36 · Ezek 33:7 · +1 more

3and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.Cross-references: Gen 11:25 · Gen 11:29 · Gen 15:16 · Deut 7:1 · Deut 20:17 · Josh 24:14 · +14 more

4As 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 in blankets at all.Cross-references: Gen 15:13 · Ex 1:11 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 5:16 · Deut 5:6 · Deut 15:15 · +10 more

5No 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 the day that you were born.Cross-references: Gen 21:10 · Ex 1:22 · Num 19:16 · Deut 32:10 · Isa 49:15 · Jer 9:21 · +6 more

6“‘“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 in your blood, live!’Cross-references: Ex 2:24 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 19:4 · Deut 9:4 · Ps 105:10 · Ps 105:26 · +12 more

7I 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 formed, and your hair grew; yet you were naked and bare.Cross-references: Gen 22:17 · Ex 1:7 · Ex 3:22 · Ex 12:37 · Deut 1:10 · Deut 4:8 · +18 more

8“‘“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. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.Cross-references: Ex 19:4 · Ex 24:1 · Ex 32:13 · Deut 4:31 · Deut 7:6 · Ruth 3:9 · +14 more

9“‘“Then I washed you with water. Yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.Cross-references: Ruth 3:3 · Ps 23:5 · Ps 51:7 · Isa 4:4 · Ezek 16:4 · Ezek 36:25 · +9 more

10I clothed you also with embroidered work and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.Cross-references: Gen 41:42 · Ex 25:5 · Ex 26:14 · Ex 26:36 · Ex 28:5 · Ex 39:27 · +16 more

11I decked you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands, and put a chain on your neck.Cross-references: Gen 24:22 · Gen 24:47 · Gen 24:53 · Gen 35:4 · Gen 41:42 · Ex 32:2 · +24 more

12I put a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.Cross-references: Isa 3:21 · Isa 28:5 · Jer 13:18

13Thus 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 exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.Cross-references: Gen 17:6 · Deut 8:8 · Deut 32:13 · 1Sam 10:1 · 1Sam 12:12 · 2Sam 8:15 · +14 more

14Your 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 Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 4:6 · Deut 4:32 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 9:6 · 1Ki 10:1 · 1Ki 10:24 · +4 more

15“‘“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 was his.Cross-references: Ex 32:6 · Num 25:1 · Deut 32:15 · Judg 2:12 · Judg 3:6 · Judg 10:6 · +25 more

16You took some of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them. This shouldn’t happen, neither shall it be.Cross-references: 2Ki 23:7 · 2Chr 28:24 · Ezek 7:20 · Hos 2:8

17You 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 with them.Cross-references: Ex 32:1 · Isa 44:19 · Isa 57:7 · Jer 2:27 · Jer 3:9 · Ezek 7:19 · +4 more

18You took your embroidered garments, covered them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

19My 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,” says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 8:21 · Deut 32:14 · Ezek 16:13 · Hos 2:8

20“‘“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 prostitution a small matter,Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 13:2 · Ex 13:12 · Deut 29:11 · 2Ki 16:3 · 2Chr 33:6 · +13 more

21that you have slain my children and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire to them?Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 20:1 · Deut 18:10 · 2Ki 17:17 · 2Ki 21:6 · 2Ki 23:10 · +2 more

22In 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 your blood.Cross-references: Jer 2:2 · Ezek 16:3 · Ezek 16:43 · Ezek 16:60 · Hos 2:3 · Hos 11:1

23“‘“It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh—Cross-references: Jer 13:27 · Ezek 2:10 · Ezek 13:3 · Ezek 13:18 · Ezek 24:6 · Zeph 3:1 · +4 more

24“that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.Cross-references: Lev 26:30 · 2Ki 21:3 · 2Ki 23:5 · 2Ki 23:11 · 2Chr 33:3 · Ps 78:58 · +8 more

25You 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 by, and multiplied your prostitution.Cross-references: Gen 38:14 · Gen 38:21 · Prov 9:14 · Isa 3:9 · Jer 2:23 · Jer 3:2 · +8 more

26You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.Cross-references: Ex 32:4 · Deut 29:16 · Josh 24:14 · Isa 30:21 · Jer 7:18 · Ezek 8:10 · +6 more

27See 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 daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Chr 28:18 · Ps 106:41 · Isa 3:1 · Isa 5:25 · +14 more

28You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren’t satisfied.Cross-references: Judg 10:6 · 2Ki 16:7 · 2Ki 16:10 · 2Ki 21:11 · 2Chr 28:16 · 2Chr 28:20 · +6 more

29You have moreover multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with this.Cross-references: Judg 2:12 · 2Ki 21:9 · Ezek 13:14 · Ezek 23:14

30“‘“How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;Cross-references: Judg 16:15 · Prov 7:11 · Prov 7:21 · Prov 9:13 · Isa 1:3 · Isa 3:9 · +4 more

31in 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 you scorn pay.Cross-references: Isa 52:3 · Ezek 16:24 · Ezek 16:33 · Ezek 16:39 · Hos 12:11

32“‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!Cross-references: Jer 2:25 · Jer 2:28 · Jer 3:1 · Jer 3:8 · Jer 3:20 · Ezek 16:8 · +5 more

33People 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 prostitution.Cross-references: Gen 38:16 · Deut 23:17 · Isa 30:3 · Isa 30:6 · Isa 57:9 · Ezek 16:41 · +5 more

34You 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 given to you, therefore you are different.”’

35“Therefore, prostitute, hear Yahweh’s word:Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · Isa 1:10 · Isa 1:21 · Isa 23:15 · Isa 28:14 · Jer 3:1 · +11 more

36‘The Lord Yahweh says, “Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;Cross-references: Gen 3:7 · Gen 3:10 · Ps 139:11 · Jer 2:34 · Jer 13:22 · Jer 19:5 · +11 more

37therefore 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. I will even gather them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.Cross-references: Jer 4:30 · Jer 13:22 · Jer 13:26 · Jer 22:20 · Lam 1:8 · Lam 1:19 · +7 more

38I 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.Cross-references: Gen 9:6 · Gen 38:11 · Gen 38:24 · Ex 21:12 · Lev 20:10 · Num 35:31 · +13 more

39I 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 clothes and take your beautiful jewels. They will leave you naked and bare.Cross-references: Isa 3:16 · Isa 27:9 · Ezek 7:22 · Ezek 16:10 · Ezek 16:24 · Ezek 16:31 · +4 more

40They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.Cross-references: Jer 25:9 · Ezek 23:10 · Ezek 23:47 · Ezek 24:21 · Hab 1:6 · John 8:5

41They 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, and you will also give no hire any more.Cross-references: Deut 13:11 · Deut 13:16 · Deut 22:21 · Deut 22:24 · 2Ki 25:9 · Job 34:26 · +15 more

42So 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 21:14 · Isa 1:24 · Isa 40:1 · Isa 54:9 · Ezek 5:13 · Ezek 21:17 · +2 more

43“‘“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 way on your head,” says the Lord Yahweh: “and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.Cross-references: Deut 32:21 · Ps 78:40 · Ps 78:42 · Ps 95:10 · Ps 106:13 · Isa 63:10 · +12 more

44“‘“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb against you, saying, ‘As is the mother, so is her daughter.’Cross-references: 1Sam 24:13 · 1Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 17:11 · 2Ki 17:15 · 2Ki 21:9 · Ezra 9:1 · +5 more

45You 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 their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.Cross-references: Deut 5:9 · Deut 12:31 · Isa 1:4 · Ezek 16:8 · Ezek 16:15 · Ezek 16:20 · +4 more

46Your 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 with her daughters.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 14:8 · Gen 18:20 · Gen 19:24 · Gen 19:29 · Deut 29:23 · +20 more

47Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done their abominations; but soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.Cross-references: 1Ki 16:31 · 2Ki 21:9 · 2Ki 21:16 · Ezek 5:6 · Ezek 8:17 · Ezek 16:48 · +3 more

48As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.Cross-references: Matt 10:15 · Matt 11:23 · Mark 6:11 · Luke 10:12 · Acts 7:52

49“‘“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 strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.Cross-references: Gen 13:10 · Gen 18:20 · Gen 19:9 · Deut 32:15 · Ps 138:6 · Prov 16:5 · +28 more

50They were arrogant and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 18:20 · Gen 19:5 · Gen 19:24 · Lev 18:22 · Deut 23:17 · +16 more

51Samaria hasn’t committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.Cross-references: Jer 3:8 · Matt 12:41 · Luke 12:47 · Rom 3:9

52You also bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.Cross-references: Gen 38:26 · 1Sam 24:17 · 1Ki 2:32 · Jer 23:40 · Jer 31:19 · Jer 51:51 · +15 more

53“‘“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 captives among them;Cross-references: Job 42:10 · Ps 14:7 · Ps 85:1 · Ps 126:1 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 19:24 · +11 more

54that 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.Cross-references: Jer 2:26 · Ezek 14:22 · Ezek 16:52 · Ezek 16:63 · Ezek 36:31

55Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.Cross-references: Ezek 16:53 · Ezek 36:11 · Mal 3:4

56For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,Cross-references: Isa 65:5 · Zeph 3:11 · Luke 15:28 · Luke 18:11

57before 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 Philistines, who despise you all around.Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · Num 23:7 · 2Ki 16:5 · 2Chr 28:5 · 2Chr 28:18 · Ps 50:21 · +10 more

58You have borne your lewdness and your abominations,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 4:13 · Lam 5:7 · Ezek 23:49

59“‘For the Lord Yahweh says: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.Cross-references: Ex 24:1 · Deut 29:10 · Deut 29:25 · 2Chr 34:31 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 24:5 · +10 more

60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.Cross-references: Lev 26:42 · Lev 26:45 · 2Sam 23:5 · Neh 1:5 · Ps 105:8 · Ps 106:45 · +14 more

61Then 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 daughters, but not by your covenant.Cross-references: Job 42:5 · Ps 119:59 · Song 8:8 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:9 · Isa 49:18 · +20 more

62I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;Cross-references: Jer 24:7 · Ezek 6:7 · Ezek 16:60 · Ezek 20:37 · Ezek 20:43 · Ezek 39:22 · +3 more

63that 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,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Ezra 9:6 · Job 40:4 · Ps 39:9 · Ps 65:3 · Ps 79:9 · Lam 3:39 · +11 more