1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 Son of man,
cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 9 Then washed I you with water;
yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with
oil. 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.
11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a
chain on your neck. 12 I put a ring on your nose, and ear-rings in your
ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus was you 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 did prosper to royal estate. 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. 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 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. 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; 18 and you took your
embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense
before them. 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 sweet
savor; and thus it was, says the Lord Yahweh. 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,
21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them
to pass through the fire to them? 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. 23 It is happen
after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord Yahweh,)
24 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty
place in every street. 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. 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. 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. 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. 29 You have moreover multiplied your prostitution
to the land of merchants, to Chaldea; and yet you weren’t satisfied with
this. 30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all
these things, the work of an impudent prostitute; 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.
32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her
husband! 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. 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.
35 Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh: 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; 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. 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. 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. 40 They shall
also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones,
and thrust you through with their swords. 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. 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. 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. 44 Behold, everyone who uses proverbs
shall use this proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is
her daughter. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 50 They were haughty, and committed
abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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. 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. 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;
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. 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. 56 For your sister Sodom was not
mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride, 57 before your
wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of
Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines,
who do despite to you round about. 58 You have borne your lewdness and
your abominations, says Yahweh. 59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will
also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking
the covenant. 60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the
days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
61 Then shall you 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. 62 I will
establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
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.
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