Ezekiel 16 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

God's Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem

Eze 16:1And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

Eze 16:2'Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and thou hast said:

Eze 16:3Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity Are of the land of the Canaanite, Thy father the Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

Eze 16:4

Eze 16:4As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.

Eze 16:5

Eze 16:5No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born -- thou!

Eze 16:6

Eze 16:6And I do pass over by thee, And I see thee trodden down in thy blood, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live, And I say to thee in thy blood, Live.

Eze 16:7

Eze 16:7A myriad -- as the shoot of the field I have made thee, And thou art multiplied, and art great, And comest in with an excellent adornment, Breasts have been formed, and thy hair hath grown -- And thou, naked and bare!

Eze 16:8

Eze 16:8And I pass over by thee, and I see thee, And lo, thy time is a time of loves, And I spread My skirt over thee, And I cover thy nakedness, And I swear to thee, and come in to a covenant with thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And thou dost become Mine.

Eze 16:9

Eze 16:9And I do wash thee with water, And I wash away thy blood from off thee, And I anoint thee with perfume.

Eze 16:10

Eze 16:10And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger's skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk.

Eze 16:11

Eze 16:11And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.

Eze 16:12

Eze 16:12And I give a ring for thy nose, And rings for thine ears, And a crown of beauty on thy head.

Eze 16:13

Eze 16:13And thou dost put on gold and silver, And thy clothing is fine linen, And figured silk and embroidery, Fine flour, and honey, and oil thou hast eaten, And thou art very very beautiful, And dost go prosperously to the kingdom.

Eze 16:14

Eze 16:14And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty -- for it is complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Eze 16:15

Eze 16:15And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by -- to him it is.

Eze 16:16

Eze 16:16And thou dost take of thy garments, And dost make to thee spotted high-places, And dost go a-whoring upon them, They are not coming in -- nor shall it be!

Eze 16:17

Eze 16:17And thou dost take thy beauteous vessels Of My gold and My silver that I gave to thee, And dost make to thee images of a male, And dost go a-whoring with them,

Eze 16:18

Eze 16:18And dost take the garments of thy embroidery, And thou dost cover them, And My oil and My perfume thou hast set before them.

Eze 16:19

Eze 16:19And My bread, that I gave to thee, Fine flour, and oil, and honey, that I caused thee to eat. Thou hast even set it before them, For a sweet fragrance -- thus it is, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

Eze 16:20

Eze 16:20And thou dost take thy sons and thy daughters Whom thou hast born to Me, And dost sacrifice them to them for food. Is it a little thing because of thy whoredoms,

Eze 16:21

Eze 16:21That thou dost slaughter My sons, And dost give them up in causing them to pass over to them?

Eze 16:22

Eze 16:22And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!

Eze 16:23

Eze 16:23And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Wo, wo, to thee -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),

Eze 16:24

Eze 16:24That thou dost build to thee an arch, And dost make to thee a high place in every broad place.

Eze 16:25

Eze 16:25At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms,

Eze 16:26

Eze 16:26And dost go a-whoring unto sons of Egypt, Thy neighbours -- great of appetite! And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms, To provoke Me to anger.

Eze 16:27

Eze 16:27And lo, I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I diminish thy portion, And give thee to the desire of those hating thee, The daughters of the Philistines, Who are ashamed of thy wicked way.

Eze 16:28

Eze 16:28And thou goest a-whoring unto sons of Asshur, Without thy being satisfied, And thou dost go a-whoring with them, And also -- thou hast not been satisfied.

Eze 16:29

Eze 16:29And thou dost multiply thy whoredoms On the land of Canaan -- toward Chaldea, And even with this thou hast not been satisfied.

Eze 16:30

Eze 16:30How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.

Eze 16:31

Eze 16:31In thy building thine arch at the head of every way, Thy high place thou hast made in every broad place, And -- hast not been as a whore deriding a gift.

Eze 16:32

Eze 16:32The wife who committeth adultery -- Under her husband -- doth receive strangers.

Eze 16:33

Eze 16:33To all whores they give a gift, And -- thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, And dost bribe them to come in unto thee, From round about -- in thy whoredoms.

Eze 16:34

Eze 16:34And the contrary is in thee from women in thy whoredoms, That after thee none doth go a-whoring; And in thy giving a gift, And a gift hath not been given to thee; And thou art become contrary.

Eze 16:35

Eze 16:35Therefore, O whore, hear a word of Jehovah,

Eze 16:36

Eze 16:36Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;

Eze 16:37

Eze 16:37Therefore, lo, I am assembling all thy lovers, To whom thou hast been sweet, And all whom thou hast loved, Besides all whom thou hast hated; And I have assembled them by thee round about, And have revealed thy nakedness to them, And they have seen all thy nakedness.

Eze 16:38

Eze 16:38And I have judged thee -- judgments of adultresses, And of women shedding blood, And have given thee blood, fury, and jealousy.

Eze 16:39

Eze 16:39And I have given thee into their hand, And they have thrown down thine arch, And they have broken down thy high places, And they have stript thee of thy garments, And they have taken thy beauteous vessels, And they have left thee naked and bare.

Eze 16:40

Eze 16:40And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,

Eze 16:41

Eze 16:41And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more.

Eze 16:42

Eze 16:42And I have caused My fury against thee to rest, And My jealousy hath turned aside from thee, And I have been quiet, and I am not angry any more.

Eze 16:43

Eze 16:43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.

Eze 16:44

Eze 16:44Lo, every one using a simile, Doth use a simile concerning thee, saying: As the mother -- her daughter!

Eze 16:45

Eze 16:45Thy mother's daughter thou art, Loathing her husband and her sons, And thy sisters' sister thou art, Who loathed their husbands and their sons, Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

Eze 16:46

Eze 16:46And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Eze 16:47

Eze 16:47And -- in their ways thou hast not walked, And according to their abominations done, As a little thing it hath been loathed, And thou dost more corruptly than they in all thy ways.

Eze 16:48

Eze 16:48I live -- an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Sodom thy sister hath not done -- she and her daughters -- As thou hast done -- thou and thy daughters.

Eze 16:49

Eze 16:49Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

Eze 16:50

Eze 16:50And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.

Eze 16:51

Eze 16:51As to Samaria, as the half of thy sins -- she hath not sinned, And thou dost multiply thine abominations more than they, And dost justify thy sisters by all thy abominations that thou hast done.

Eze 16:52

Eze 16:52Thou also -- bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters.

Eze 16:53

Eze 16:53And I have turned back to their captivity, The captivity of Sodom and her daughters, And the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, And the captivity of thy captives in their midst,

Eze 16:54

Eze 16:54So that thou dost bear thy shame, And hast been ashamed of all that thou hast done, In thy comforting them.

Eze 16:55

Eze 16:55And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, Do turn back to their former state, And Samaria and her daughters Do turn back to their former state, And thou and thy daughters do turn back to your former state.

Eze 16:56

Eze 16:56And thy sister Sodom hath not been for a report in thy mouth, In the day of thine arrogancy,

Eze 16:57

Eze 16:57Before thy wickedness is revealed, As at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Aram, And of all her neighbours, the daughters of the Philistines, Who are despising thee round about.

Eze 16:58

Eze 16:58Thy devices and thine abominations, Thou hast borne them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

Eze 16:59

Eze 16:59For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath -- to break covenant.

The Covenant Remembered

Eze 16:60

Eze 16:60And I -- I have remembered My covenant with thee, In the days of thy youth, And I have established for thee a covenant age-during.

Eze 16:61

Eze 16:61And thou hast remembered thy ways, And thou hast been ashamed, In thy receiving thy sisters -- Thine elder with thy younger, And I have given them to thee for daughters, And not by thy covenant.

Eze 16:62

Eze 16:62And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah.

Eze 16:63

Eze 16:63So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Ezekiel 16 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

God's Grace to Unfaithful Jerusalem

The Covenant Remembered

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