KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 16
Under the similitude of a wretched infant is shown the natural state of Jerusalem. Jehovah's love towards her. Her sin calls for judgments.
1And the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; and say, So says the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth is of the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
3As for your birth, in the day you were born, your navel was not cut, and you were not washed with water to cleanse you. And you were not salted, and you were not at all swaddled.
4An eye did not have pity on you to do to you one of these, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown into the face of the field, with loathing of your soul in the day you were born.
5And when I passed by you and saw you ready to be trodden down in your blood, I said to you in your blood, Live! Yea, I said to you in your blood, Live!
6As a myriad, as a field shoot, I have given you, and you are grown and are great. And you come in the ornament of ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and your hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.
7And I passed by you, and I looked on you, and, behold, your time was the time of love. And I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. And I swore to you and entered into a covenant with you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. And you became Mine.
8And I washed you with water; I washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
9And I dressed you with embroidered work, and I shod you with dugong sandals. And I wrapped you in fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
10And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands and a chain on your neck.
11And I put a ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a crown of beauty on your head.
12And you were adorned with gold and silver. And your clothing was fine linen and silk and embroidered work. Fine flour and honey and oil you ate. And you were very, very beautiful. And you advanced to regal estate.
13And your name went out among the nations, because of your beauty, for it was perfect by My splendor which I had set on you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
14But you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted yourself because of your name, and poured out your fornications on all who passed by; it was to him!
15And you took from your clothes and made for you high places of various colors, and prostituted on them, such as have not come, and not shall be.
16And you have taken beautiful things of My gold and of My silver, which I had given to you, and you made images of males, and fornicated with them.
17And you took your embroidered clothes and covered them. And My oil and My incense you have given to their face.
18Also My food which I gave you, fine flour and oil and honey which I fed you, you have given it to their face for a soothing aroma. And it happened, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
19And you have taken your sons and your daughters whom you have borne to Me, and you sacrificed these to them for food. Are your fornications small?
20You have slaughtered My sons, and you gave them to cause these to pass through the fire for them.
21And in all your abominations and your fornications you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were trodden down in your blood.
22And it happened after all your evil, Woe, woe to you, a statement of the Lord Jehovah!
23Woe to you that you have also built yourself a mound, and you have made yourself a high place in every open place!
24At the head of every highway you have built your high place, and have made your beauty despised. And you have parted your feet to all who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.
25And you have fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh. And you have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.
26And behold, I have stretched out My hand over you, and I drew back your portion. And I gave you to the will of those hating you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your wicked way.
27You have fornicated with the sons of Assyria without being satisfied. Yea, you fornicated and yet you were not satisfied.
28And you have fornicated your fornication in the land of Canaan to the Chaldean, and yet you were not satisfied with this.
29How weak is your heart, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a domineering, prostituting woman.
30in that you have built your mound in the head of every highway, and you have made your high place in every open place; yet you have not been as one prostituting, even scorning hire.
31Like the adulterous wife, instead of her husband, she takes strangers.
32They give a gift to all prostitutes, but you give your gifts to all the ones loving you, and bribe them to come to you from all around for your fornication.
33And in you was the opposite from those women in your fornications, since no one fornicates after you, and in your giving hire, and hire is not given to you; in this you are opposite.
34Therefore, one fornicating, hear the Word of Jehovah,
35So says the Lord Jehovah: Because your lewdness was poured out, and your nakedness was bared in your fornications with those loving you and with the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your sons whom you gave to them;
36therefore, behold, I will gather all those loving you with whom you have been pleased, even all whom you have loved, with all whom you have hated, And I will gather them against you from round about, and will uncover your nakedness to them. Yea, they will see all your nakedness.
37And I will judge you with judgments of adulteresses, and with those who spill blood. And I will give you blood of fury and jealousy.
38And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound, and will demolish your high places. And they shall strip you of your clothes and shall take your beautiful things, and leave you naked and bare.
39And they will make go up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and cut you with their swords.
40And they shall burn your houses with fire and make judgments against you in the sight of many women. And I will make you stop fornicating; and, also, you shall not give hire again.
41And I will make My fury to rest against you, and My jealousy shall turn aside from you. And I will be quiet, and I will not still be angry.
42Because that which you have not remembered, the days of your youth, but have troubled Me in all these, so, behold, even I will give your way back on your head, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. And you shall not commit the evil purposes above all your disgusting things.
43Behold, all who use proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, As the mother, so is the daughter.
44You are your mother's daughter who despises her husband and her sons. And you are the sister of your sisters who despise their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father was an Amorite.
45And your older sister is Samaria, she and her daughters who are dwelling on your left. And your younger sister from you who dwells on the right is Sodom and her daughters.
46Yet you have not walked in their ways and not have done according to their disgusting things. As if it were only a little thing, you were even more corrupted than they in all your ways.
47As I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, your sister Sodom, she and her daughters, have not done as you and your daughters have done.
48Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and her daughters. Also, she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy ones.
49And they were haughty and did disgusting things before My face, so I turned them away as I saw fit.
50And Samaria has not sinned as much as half your sins, but you have multiplied your disgusting things more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your disgusting things which you have done.
51And you who have mediated for your sisters must bear your shame by your sins which you abominably did more than they; they are more righteous than you. And also you be ashamed and lift up your shame, in that you have judged your sisters.
52When I shall return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, even also the captivity of your captivity in their midst;
53so that you may bear your shame and be disgraced from all that you have done, since you are a comfort to them.
54When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
55For your sister Sodom was not to be heard from your mouth in the day of your pride,
56before your evil was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of Syria's daughters and all the ones around her, the daughters of the Philistines who hated you from round about,.
57you are bearing your evil purposes and your disgusting things, a statement of Jehovah.
58For so says the Lord Jehovah: I will even do with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
59But I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will raise up to you an everlasting covenant.
60And you shall remember your ways and be ashamed, when you shall receive your sisters, the older than you to the younger than you, and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
61And I, even I, will raise up My covenant with you. And you shall know that I am Jehovah,
62so that you may remember and be ashamed. And you will not any more open your mouth, because of your shame, when I am propitiated for you for all that you have done, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
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