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Ezekiel 16 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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The Lord’s Faithless Bride

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:1 - Again the word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:6 - “And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:8 - “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:9 - Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:10 - I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:11 - And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:12 - And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:15 - “But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore[fn] because of your renown and lavished your whorings[fn] on any passerby; your beauty[fn] became his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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 with them played the whore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:18 - And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:19 - Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:21 - that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:23 - “And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord GOD),

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:24 - you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself[fn] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27 - Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:28 - You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:29 - You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:30 - “How sick is your heart,[fn] declares the Lord GOD, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:32 - Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:35 - “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says the Lord GOD, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37 - therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:40 - They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord GOD. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:44 - “Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:46

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:46 - And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - As I live, declares the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:49 - Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:50 - They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:51

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:52

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:53

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:53 - “I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:54

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:54 - that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:55

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:55 - As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:56

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria[fn] and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:58

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:58 - You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.

The Lord’s Everlasting Covenant

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:60

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:60 - yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:61

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:61 - Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of[fn] the covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:62

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:62 - I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:63

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:63 - that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.”
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ESV Footnotes
Or with rich fabric
Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
Hebrew it
The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Hebrew spreading your legs
Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you
Some manuscripts (compare Syriac) of Edom
Or not apart from
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Ezekiel Chapter 16 — Additional Translations:

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