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Chapter 16
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, |
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And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy
birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy
father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. |
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And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born
thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water
to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled
at all. |
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None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee,
to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out
in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the
day that thou wast born. |
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And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in
thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy
blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in
thy blood, Live. |
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I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field,
and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art
come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned,
and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and
bare. |
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Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold,
thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt
over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto
thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the
Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. |
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Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed
away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. |
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I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee
with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine
linen, and I covered thee with silk. |
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I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets
upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. |
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And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in
thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. |
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Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy
raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work;
thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou
wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into
a kingdom. |
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And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy
beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which
I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. |
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But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst
the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. |
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And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy
high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot
thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall
it be so. |
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Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and
of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself
images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, |
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And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them:
and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. |
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My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil,
and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it
before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith
the Lord GOD. |
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Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters,
whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed
unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a
small matter, |
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That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them
to cause them to pass through the fire for them? |
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And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou
hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou
wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. |
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And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe,
woe unto thee! saith the LORD GOD;) |
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That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place,
and hast made thee an high place in every street. |
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Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the
way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast
opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied
thy whoredoms. |
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Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians
thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy
whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. |
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Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over
thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered
thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters
of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. |
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Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians,
because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the
harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. |
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Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the
land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied
therewith. |
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How weak is thine heart, saith the LORD GOD, seeing
thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious
whorish woman; |
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In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head
of every way, and makest thine high place in every street;
and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest
hire; |
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But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh
strangers instead of her husband! |
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They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy
gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may
come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. |
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And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy
whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms:
and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given
unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. |
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Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD: |
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was
poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy
whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of
thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which
thou didst give unto them; |
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Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with
whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou
hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will
even gather them round about against thee, and will discover
thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. |
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And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock
and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood
in fury and jealousy. |
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And I will also give thee into their hand, and they
shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break
down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy
clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee
naked and bare. |
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They shall also bring up a company against thee, and
they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through
with their swords. |
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And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute
judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I
will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and
thou also shalt give no hire any more. |
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So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my
jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet,
and will be no more angry. |
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Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth,
but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore
I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith
the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness
above all thine abominations. |
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Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this
proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is
her daughter. |
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Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband
and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters,
which lothed their husbands and their children: your
mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. |
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And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters
that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister,
that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. |
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Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done
after their abominations: but, as if that were a very
little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all
thy ways. |
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As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath
not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou
and thy daughters. |
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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom,
pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was
in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen
the hand of the poor and needy. |
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And they were haughty, and committed abomination before
me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. |
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Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but
thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they,
and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations
which thou hast done. |
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Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine
own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more
abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou:
yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in
that thou hast justified thy sisters. |
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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 thy captives in the midst of them: |
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That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art
a comfort unto them. |
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When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return
to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters
shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy
daughters shall return to your former estate. |
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For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth
in the day of thy pride, |
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Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time
of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that
are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines,
which despise thee round about. |
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Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations,
saith the LORD. |
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with
thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath
in breaking the covenant. |
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Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee
in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee
an everlasting covenant. |
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Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed,
when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and
thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters,
but not by thy covenant. |
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And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou
shalt know that I am the LORD: |
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That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never
open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I
am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done,
saith the Lord GOD. |
