Ezekiel 16 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

God's Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem

Eze 16:1And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Eze 16:2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

Eze 16:3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

Eze 16:4

Eze 16:4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou wast not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all.

Eze 16:5

Eze 16:5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, from abhorrence of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

Eze 16:6

Eze 16:6And I passed by thee, and saw thee weltering in thy blood, and I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live! yea, I said unto thee, in thy blood, Live!

Eze 16:7

Eze 16:7I caused thee to multiply, as the bud of the field; and thou didst increase and grow great, and thou camest to fulness of beauty; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: but thou wast naked and bare.

Eze 16:8

Eze 16:8And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.

Eze 16:9

Eze 16:9And I washed thee with water, and thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil;

Eze 16:10

Eze 16:10and I clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I bound thee about with byssus, and covered thee with silk.

Eze 16:11

Eze 16:11And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck;

Eze 16:12

Eze 16:12and I put a ring on thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

Eze 16:13

Eze 16:13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was byssus, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou becamest exceedingly beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.

Eze 16:14

Eze 16:14And thy fame went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my magnificence, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Eze 16:15

Eze 16:15But thou didst confide in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.

Eze 16:16

Eze 16:16And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.

Eze 16:17

Eze 16:17And thou didst take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of males, and didst commit fornication with them.

Eze 16:18

Eze 16:18And thou tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

Eze 16:19

Eze 16:19And my bread which I had given thee, the fine flour and the oil and the honey wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savour: thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Eze 16:20

Eze 16:20And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hadst borne unto me, and these didst thou sacrifice unto them, to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

Eze 16:21

Eze 16:21that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?

Eze 16:22

Eze 16:22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, when thou wast weltering in thy blood.

Eze 16:23

Eze 16:23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord Jehovah),

Eze 16:24

Eze 16:24that thou didst also build unto thee a place of debauchery, and didst make thee a high place in every street:

Eze 16:25

Eze 16:25thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.

Eze 16:26

Eze 16:26And thou didst commit fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and didst multiply thy whoredom to provoke me to anger.

Eze 16:27

Eze 16:27And behold, I stretched out my hand over thee, and diminished thine appointed portion; and I gave thee over unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who were confounded at thy lewd way.

Eze 16:28

Eze 16:28And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

Eze 16:29

Eze 16:29And thou didst multiply thy whoredom with the land of merchants, Chaldea, and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.

Eze 16:30

Eze 16:30How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a whorish woman, under no restraint;

Eze 16:31

Eze 16:31in that thou buildest thy place of debauchery at the head of every way, and makest thy high place in every street! And thou hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest reward,

Eze 16:32

Eze 16:32O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

Eze 16:33

Eze 16:33They give rewards to all harlots; but thou gavest thy rewards to all thy lovers, and rewardedst them, that they might come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

Eze 16:34

Eze 16:34And in thee is the contrary from other women, in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to commit fornication; and whereas thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, so art thou contrary.

Eze 16:35

Eze 16:35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah.

Eze 16:36

Eze 16:36Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy money hath been poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thine abominations, and because of the blood of thy children which thou didst give unto them;

Eze 16:37

Eze 16:37therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all that thou hast loved, with all 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.

Eze 16:38

Eze 16:38And I will judge thee with the judgments of women that commit adultery and shed blood; and I will give thee up to the blood of fury and jealousy;

Eze 16:39

Eze 16:39and I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy place of debauchery, and shall break down thy high places; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

Eze 16:40

Eze 16:40And they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Eze 16:41

Eze 16:41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from being a harlot, and thou also shalt give no more any reward.

Eze 16:42

Eze 16:42And I will appease my fury against thee, and my jealousy shall depart from thee; and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

Eze 16:43

Eze 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things, behold, therefore, I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou shalt not commit this lewdness besides all thine abominations.

Eze 16:44

Eze 16:44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall speak in a proverb against thee, saying, As the mother, so is her daughter!

Eze 16:45

Eze 16:45Thou art the daughter of thy mother that loathed her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Eze 16:46

Eze 16:46And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Eze 16:47

Eze 16:47And thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations; but as though that were a very little, thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

Eze 16:48

Eze 16:48As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters!

Eze 16:49

Eze 16:49Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Eze 16:50

Eze 16:50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me, and I took them away when I saw it.

Eze 16:51

Eze 16:51And Samaria hath not sinned according to the half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Eze 16:52

Eze 16:52Thou also, who hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own confusion, because of thy sins in which thou hast acted more abominably than they: they are more righteous than thou. So be thou ashamed also, and bear thy confusion, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Eze 16:53

Eze 16:53And I will bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them;

Eze 16:54

Eze 16:54that thou mayest bear thy confusion, and mayest be confounded for all that thou hast done, in that thou comfortest them.

Eze 16:55

Eze 16:55And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; thou also and thy daughters, ye shall return to your former estate.

Eze 16:56

Eze 16:56Yea, Sodom thy sister was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

Eze 16:57

Eze 16:57before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee on every side.

Eze 16:58

Eze 16:58Thy lewdness and thine abominations, thou bearest them, saith Jehovah.

Eze 16:59

Eze 16:59For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath, and broken the covenant.

The Covenant Remembered

Eze 16:60

Eze 16:60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

Eze 16:61

Eze 16:61And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be confounded, when thou shalt receive thy sisters who are older than thou, together with those who are younger than thou; for I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by virtue of thy covenant.

Eze 16:62

Eze 16:62And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;

Eze 16:63

Eze 16:63that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Ezekiel 16 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

God's Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem

The Covenant Remembered

Pericope