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Ezekiel 16, World English Bible |
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Ezekiel, starting at chapter 16
{16:1} Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {16:2} Son of
man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; {16:3} and say, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your birth is of the
land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother
was a Hittite. {16:4} As for your birth, in the day you were born your
navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you;
you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. {16:5} No 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, for that your person was
abhorred, in the day that you were born. {16:6} When I passed by you,
and saw you weltering 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. {16:7} I caused you to multiply as that which grows in
the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to
excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was
grown; yet you were naked and bare. {16:8} Now when I passed by you,
and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I
spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to
you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and
you became mine. {16:9} Then washed I you with water; yes, I
thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with
oil. {16:10} I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you
with sealskin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and covered you
with silk. {16:11} I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on
your hands, and a chain on your neck. {16:12} I put a ring on your
nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
{16:13} Thus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing
was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour,
and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you
prospered to royal estate. {16:14} Your renown went forth among the
nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which
I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh. {16:15} But you did trust in
your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and
poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.
{16:16} You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places
decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the
like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so]. {16:17} You
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; {16:18} and you took your embroidered garments,
and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.
{16:19} My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and
honey, with which I fed you, you did even set it before them for a
pleasant aroma; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh. {16:20}
Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have
borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured.
Were your prostitution a small matter, {16:21} that you have slain my
children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through [the
fire] to them? {16:22} In all your abominations and your prostitution
you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked
and bare, and was weltering in your blood. {16:23} It is happen after
all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh), {16:24}
that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty
place in every street. {16:25} You 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. {16:26} You have also committed sexual immorality with
the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied
your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. {16:27} See therefore, I
have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary
[food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the
daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
{16:28} You 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. {16:29} You have moreover
multiplied your prostitution to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and
yet you weren't satisfied with this. {16:30} How weak is your heart,
says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the work of an
impudent prostitute; {16:31} in 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. {16:32} A wife
who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
{16:33} They 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. {16:34} You are different from [other]
women in your prostitution, in that none follows you to play the
prostitute; and whereas you give hire, and no hire is given to you,
therefore you are different. {16:35} Therefore, prostitute, hear the
word of Yahweh: {16:36} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, 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; {16:37} therefore see, I will gather all your lovers, with whom
you have taken pleasure, and all those who you have loved, with all
those who 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. {16:38} I 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. {16:39} I will also give you into their hand, and they
shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places;
and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful
jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare. {16:40} They shall
also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with
stones, and thrust you through with their swords. {16:41} They shall
burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight
of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the
prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more. {16:42} So will
I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from
you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. {16:43} 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. {16:44} Behold, everyone who uses
proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the
mother, so is her daughter. {16:45} You 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. {16:46} Your
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 and her daughters. {16:47} Yet have you not walked in their
ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very
little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
{16:48} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not
done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
{16:49} Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride,
fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her
daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
{16:50} They were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw [good]. {16:51} Neither has
Samaria 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. {16:52} You also, bear you your
own shame, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through
your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are
more righteous that you: yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame,
in that you have justified your sisters. {16:53} I will turn again
their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the
captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your
captives in the midst of them; {16:54} that 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. {16:55} Your sisters, Sodom and her
daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her
daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your
daughters shall return to your former estate. {16:56} For your sister
Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
{16:57} before 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 do despite to you all around.
{16:58} You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says
Yahweh. {16:59} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with
you as you have done, who hav
despised the oath in breaking the
covenant. {16:60} Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in
the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting
covenant. {16:61} Then you shall remember your ways, and be ashamed,
when you shall receive your sisters, your elder [sisters] and your
younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your
covenant. {16:62} I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall
know that I am Yahweh; {16:63} that 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.
{17:1} The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {17:2} Son of man, put
forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; {17:3} and
say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and
long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to
Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar: {17:4} he cropped off the
topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic;
he set it in a city of merchants. {17:5} He took also of the seed of
the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many
waters; he set it as a willow tree. {17:6} It grew, and became a
spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and
its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth
branches, and shot forth sprigs. {17:7} There was also another great
eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did
bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him,
from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it. {17:8} It was
planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly
vine. {17:9} Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper?
shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may
wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a
strong arm or much people can it be raised from its roots. {17:10}
Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly
wither, when the east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds
where it grew. {17:11} Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
{17:12} Say now to the rebellious house, Don't you know what these
things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem,
and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to
Babylon: {17:13} and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant
with him; he also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty
of the land; {17:14} that the kingdom might be base, that it might not
lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.
{17:15} But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into
Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he
prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the
covenant, and yet escape? {17:16} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh,
surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose
oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the
midst of Babylon he shall die. {17:17} Neither shall Pharaoh with his
mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up
mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons. {17:18} For he has
despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given
his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.
{17:19} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath
that he has despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even
bring it on his own head. {17:20} I will spread my net on him, and he
shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will
enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has
trespassed against me. {17:21} All his fugitives in all his bands
shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered
toward every wind: and you shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
{17:22} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top
of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its
young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty
mountain: {17:23} in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant
it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly
cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade
of its branches shall they dwell. {17:24} All the trees of the field
shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have
exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the
dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.
{18:1} The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying, {18:2} What do
you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth
are set on edge? {18:3} As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, you shall not
have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Israel. {18:4} Behold,
all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the
son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. {18:5} But if a man is
just, and does that which is lawful and right, {18:6} and has not
eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither
has come near to a woman in her impurity, {18:7} and has not wronged
any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by
robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked
with a garment; {18:8} he who has not given forth on interest, neither
has taken any increase, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has
executed true justice between man and man, {18:9} has walked in my
statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he
shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh. {18:10} If he fathers a son
who is a robber, a shedder of blood, and who does any one of these
things, {18:11} and who does not any of those [duties], but even has
eaten on the mountains, and defiled his neighbor's wife, {18:12} has
wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the
pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed
abomination, {18:13} has given forth on interest, and has taken
increase; shall he then live? he shall not live: he has done all these
abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be on him. {18:14}
Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins,
which he has done, and fears, and does not such like; {18:15} who has
not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the
idols of the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
{18:16} neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge,
neither has taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry,
and has covered the naked with a garment; {18:17} who has withdrawn
his hand from the poor, who has not received interest nor increase,
has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not
die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live. {18:18} As
for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and
did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in
his iniquity. {18:19} Yet say you, Why does not the son bear the
iniquity of the father? when the son has done that which is lawful and
right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall
surely live. {18:20} The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall
not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the
iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on
him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. {18:21} But if
the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all
my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely
live, he shall not die. {18:22} None of his transgressions that he has
committed shall be remembered against him: in his righteousness that
he has done he shall live. {18:23} Have I any pleasure in the death of
the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not rather that he should return
from his way, and live? {18:24} But when the righteous turns away from
his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the
abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his
righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass
that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them
shall he die. {18:25} Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal.
Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren't your ways
unequal? {18:26} When the righteous man turns away from his
righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity
that he has done shall he die. {18:27} Again, when the wicked man
turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that
which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. {18:28}
Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that
he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. {18:29} Yet
says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. house of
Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal? {18:30}
Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his
ways, says the Lord Yahweh. Return you, and turn yourselves from all
your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. {18:31} Cast
away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed;
and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house
of Israel? {18:32} For I have no pleasure in the death of him who
dies, says the Lord Yahweh: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
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