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16 : 1 Again the word of theLordcame to me:
16 : 2 Son of man,make known to Jerusalem her abominations,
16 : 3 and say, Thus says the LordGodto Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was anAmorite and your mother aHittite.
16 : 4 And as for your birth,on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
16 : 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you,but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred,on the day that you were born.
16 : 6 And when I passed by you and saw you wallowingin your blood, I said to youin your blood,Live!I said to youin your blood,Live!
16 : 7 I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became talland arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yetyou were naked and bare.
16 : 8 When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, andI spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to youand entered into a covenant with you, declares the LordGod,and you became mine.
16 : 9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you andanointed you with oil.
16 : 10 I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
16 : 11 And I adorned you with ornaments andput bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
16 : 12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
16 : 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth.You ate fine flour and honey and oil.You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
16 : 14 Andyour renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the LordGod.
16 : 15 But you trusted in your beautyand played the whorebecause of your renownand lavished your whoringson any passerby; your beautybecame his.
16 : 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.
16 : 17 You also tookyour beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, andmade for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
16 : 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them,and set my oil and my incense before them.
16 : 19 Also my bread that I gave you&emdash;I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey&emdash;you set before them fora pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the LordGod.
16 : 20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, andthese you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter
16 : 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?
16 : 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not rememberthe days of your youth,when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
16 : 23 And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the LordGod),
16 : 24 you built yourselfa vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.
16 : 25 At the head of every streetyou built your lofty place and madeyour beauty an abomination,offering yourselfto any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
16 : 26 You also played the whorewith the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors,multiplying your whoring,to provoke me to anger.
16 : 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against youand diminished your allotted portionand delivered you to the greed of your enemies,the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
16 : 28 You played the whore alsowith the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
16 : 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading landof Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
16 : 30 How sick is your heart,declares the LordGod, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,
16 : 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute,because you scorned payment.
16 : 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!
16 : 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes,but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.
16 : 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, andyou gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
16 : 35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of theLord:
16 : 36 Thus says the LordGod, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols,and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
16 : 37 therefore, behold,I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved andall those you hated.I will gather them against you from every sideand will uncover your nakedness to them, thatthey may see all your nakedness.
16 : 38 And I will judge youas women who commit adultery andshed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
16 : 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down yourvaulted chamber and break downyour lofty places.They shall strip you of your clothes and takeyour beautiful jewels and leave younaked and bare.
16 : 40 They shall bring up a crowd against you,and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.
16 : 41 And they shallburn your houses andexecute judgments upon you in the sight of many women.I will make you stop playing the whore, andyou shall also give payment no more.
16 : 42 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
16 : 43 Because you have not rememberedthe days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold,I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the LordGod. Have you notcommitted lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
16 : 44 Behold, everyonewho uses proverbs will use this proverb about you:Like mother, like daughter.
16 : 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister ofyour sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children.Your mother was a Hittite andyour father an Amorite.
16 : 46 Andyour elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; andyour younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.
16 : 47 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little timeyou were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
16 : 48 As I live, declares the LordGod, your sisterSodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.
16 : 49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride,excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
16 : 50 They were haughty anddid an abomination before me. SoI removed them, when I saw it.
16 : 51 Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, andhave made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
16 : 52 Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
16 : 53 I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,
16 : 54 that you may bear your disgraceand be ashamed of all that you have done,becoming a consolation to them.
16 : 55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state,and Samaria and her daughters shall returnto their former state,and you and your daughters shall returnto your former state.
16 : 56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouthin the day of your pride,
16 : 57 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have becomean object of reproach for the daughters of Syriaand all those around her, and forthe daughters of the Philistines,those all around who despise you.
16 : 58 You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares theLord.
16 : 59 For thus says the LordGod: I will deal with you as you have done, youwho have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,
16 : 60 yetI will remember my covenant with youin the days of your youth,and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
16 : 61 Then you will remember your waysand be ashamed when you takeyour sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to youas daughters, but not on account ofthe covenant with you.
16 : 62 I will establish my covenant with you,and you shall know that I am theLord,
16 : 63 that you may remember and be confounded, andnever open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the LordGod.