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Ezekiel 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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| 16:3
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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| 16:6
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. |
(16:6-7, 22)
"Thy breasts are fashioned."
God dresses up Jerusalem,
cleans off the blood that she was wallowing in, and compliments her on her nice hair
and breasts.
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| 16:7
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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| 16:8
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. |
"I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness."
Seeing that it is the time for love, God spreads his skirt over Jerusalem to cover her
nakedness.
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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. |
(16:15-16)
"Thou ... playedst the harlot ... and pouredst out thy
fornications on every one that passed by."
But Jerusalem was a harlot who had sex with everyone that passed by.
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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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| 16:17
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, |
"Thou hast ... madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with
them."
She made "images of men" and had sex 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. |
"Thou ... hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by."
She had sex with every man that passed by.
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| 16:26
Thou hast also
committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh;
and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. |
"Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh."
And had sex with Egyptians with big penises.
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| 16:27
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. |
For being such a whore, God punished Jerusalem by starving the Israelites and handing
them over to the Philistines.
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| 16:28
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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(16:28-29)
Thou hast played the
whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable."
Jerusalem still wasn't satisfied after having sex with the the well-endowed Egyptians
(v.26), so she had sex with the Assyrians too. Yet she still wasn't satisfied.
So she had sex with the men of Canaan and Chaldea, but still was not 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; |
God calls Jerusalem "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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(16:32-33)
"That they may come unto thee on every side"
God says that Jerusalem has sex with strangers, hiring them to "come in unto thee on every side."
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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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| 16:34
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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| 16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the
LORD: |
(16:35-37)
"I ... will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.."
Because she is such a filthy harlot, God will expose her nakedness
before all of her lovers.
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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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| 16:38
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. |
(16:38-41)
"They ... shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords."
After exposing her nakedness, God will give her "blood in fury and jealousy" and strip her naked once
more. Then he'll have her stoned "with stones and thrust through with swords."
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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. |
"This was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness ... neither
did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."
What was Sodom's sin?
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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.
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