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Ezekiel Chapter 16

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EZEKIEL

Ezekiel 16

1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 20:4, Isaiah 58:1
3And thou shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan, thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy mother a Cethite.
Ezekiel 16:45, Ezekiel 16:45, Isaiah 51:1, Isaiah 51:2, Isaiah 51:1
4And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts.
Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:3, Genesis 15:13, Joshua 24:2, Deuteronomy 15:15
5No eye had pity on thee to do any of these things for thee, out of compassion to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the face of the earth in the abjection of thy soul, in the day that thou wast born.
Deuteronomy 32:10, Deuteronomy 32:10, Exodus 1:22, Genesis 21:10, Lamentations 4:3
6And passing by thee, I saw that thou wast trodden under foot in thy own blood: and I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live in thy blood.
Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Titus 3:3
7I caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field: and thou didst increase and grow great, and advancedst, and camest to woman's ornament: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou was naked, and full of confusion.
Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:10, Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:10, Isaiah 62:3
8And I passed by thee, and saw thee: and behold thy time was the time of lovers: and I spread my garment over thee, and covered thy ignominy. and I swore to thee, and I entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou becamest mine.
Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:3, Ruth 3:9, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:3
9And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy blood from thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
Ruth 3:3, Psalms 23:5, Ruth 3:3, Psalms 23:5, 1 Corinthians 6:11
10And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shod thee with violet coloured shoes: and I girded thee about with fine linen, and clothed thee with fine garments.
Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:18, Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:18, Isaiah 61:10
11I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.
Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:22, Isaiah 3:19, Isaiah 3:19, Genesis 41:42
12And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
Isaiah 3:21, Isaiah 3:21, Isaiah 28:5, Isaiah 28:5, Jeremiah 13:18
13And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and wast advanced to be a queen.
Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:14, Psalms 50:2, 1 Kings 4:21, Deuteronomy 32:13
14And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast perfect through my beauty, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.
Lamentations 2:15, 1 Kings 10:24, Lamentations 2:15, 1 Kings 10:24, 1 Corinthians 4:7
15But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to be his.
Ezekiel 16:25, Isaiah 57:8, Jeremiah 2:20, Ezekiel 16:25, Isaiah 57:8
16And taking of thy garments thou hast made thee high places sewed together on each side: and hast played the harlot upon them, as hath not been done before, nor shall be hereafter.
2 Kings 23:7, 2 Kings 23:7, Hosea 2:8, Ezekiel 7:20, 2 Chronicles 28:24
17And thou tookest thy beautiful vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I gave thee, and thou madest thee images of men, and hast committed fornication with them.
Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Jeremiah 2:27
18And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and coveredst them: and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.
19And my bread which I gave thee, the fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast set before them for a sweet odour; and it was done, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:13, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:13, Deuteronomy 32:14
20And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to me: and hast sacrificed the same to them to be devoured. Is thy fornication small?
Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:37, Jeremiah 7:31, Psalms 106:37, Psalms 106:38
21Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them, consecrating them by fire.
2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 23:10, Deuteronomy 18:10, Psalms 106:37
22And after all thy abominations, and fornications, thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked, and full of confusion, trodden under foot in thy own blood.
Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:2, Hosea 11:1, Ezekiel 16:43, Hosea 11:1
23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the Lord God)
Matthew 23:13, Matthew 23:29, Revelation 8:13, Ezekiel 13:18, Ezekiel 13:3
24That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and madest thee a brothel house in every street.
Jeremiah 2:20, Isaiah 57:7, Psalms 78:58, Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 16:31
25At every head of the way thou hast set up a sign of thy prostitution: and hast made thy beauty to be abominable: and hast prostituted thyself to every one that passed by, and hast multiplied thy fornications.
Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 16:31, Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 16:31, Revelation 17:16
26And thou hast committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me.
Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 20:7
27Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will take away thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to the will of the daughters of the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way.
Isaiah 9:12, Isaiah 9:12, Ezekiel 16:57, Ezekiel 16:57, Ezekiel 16:37
28Thou hast also committed fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst played the harlot with them, even so thou wast not contented.
2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:7, Jeremiah 2:36, Hosea 10:6, 2 Kings 16:10
29Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast thou satisfied.
Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Judges 2:12, Judges 2:19, Ezekiel 13:14
30Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?
Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 4:22, Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 3:9
31Because thou hast built thy brothel house at the head of every way, and thou hast made thy high place in every street: and wast not as a harlot that by disdain enhanceth her price,
Isaiah 52:3, Ezekiel 16:33, Ezekiel 16:34, Isaiah 52:3, Ezekiel 16:33
32But is an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers over her husband.
Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 2:28, Ezekiel 23:45, Ezekiel 16:8, Jeremiah 2:25
33Gifts are given to all harlots: but thou hast given hire to all thy lovers, and thou hast given them gifts to come to thee from every side, to commit fornication with thee.
Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10, Isaiah 57:9, Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10
34And it hath happened in thee contrary to the custom of women in thy fornications, and after thee there shall be no such fornication, for in that thou gavest rewards, and didst not take rewards, the contrary hath been done in thee.
35Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:2, Hosea 4:1, Isaiah 1:21, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 34:7
36Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy money hath been poured out, and thy shame discovered through thy fornications with thy lovers, and with the idols of thy abominations, by the blood of thy children whom thou gavest them:
Ezekiel 23:10, Ezekiel 23:10, Ezekiel 22:15, Revelation 3:18, Lamentations 1:9
37Behold, I will gather together all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou hast hated: and I will gather them together against thee on every side, and will discover thy shame in their sight, and they shall see all thy nakedness.
Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:10, Jeremiah 13:22, Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:10
38And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
Leviticus 20:10, Leviticus 20:10, Genesis 9:6, Jeremiah 18:21, Zephaniah 1:17
39And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel house, and throw down thy stews: and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take away the vessels of thy beauty: and leave thee naked, and full of disgrace.
Ezekiel 23:26, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 23:26, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 16:24
40And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.
Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:47, Habakkuk 1:6, Habakkuk 1:10, Habakkuk 1:6
41And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and shall execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and thou shalt cease from fornication, and shalt give no hire any more.
Ezekiel 23:48, Ezekiel 23:48, Jeremiah 52:13, Jeremiah 39:8, 2 Kings 25:9
42And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.
Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 21:17, Ezekiel 39:29, Isaiah 40:1
43Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned all thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.
Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 11:21, Psalms 78:42, Ezekiel 22:31
44Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.
Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3, Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3, 1 Samuel 24:13
45Thou art thy mother's daughter, that cast off her husband, and her children: and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who cast off their husbands, and their children: your mother was a Cethite, and your father an Amorrhite.
Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Ezekiel 16:15
46And thy elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her daughters.
Ezekiel 23:4, Ezekiel 23:4, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Ezekiel 16:48
47But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.
2 Kings 21:9, 2 Kings 21:9, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 5:6, Ezekiel 5:7
48As I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.
Matthew 10:15, Matthew 10:15, Acts 7:52, Luke 10:12, Matthew 11:23
49Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.
Ezekiel 28:2, Genesis 13:10, Psalms 138:6, Ezekiel 28:2, Genesis 13:10
50And they were lifted up, and committed abominations before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
Genesis 18:20, Genesis 19:5, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 18:20
51And Samaria committed not half thy sins: but thou hast surpassed them with thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters by all thy abominations which thou hast done.
Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Romans 3:9
52Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that hast surpassed thy sisters with thy sins, doing more wickedly than they: for they are justified above thee, therefore be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, thou that hast justified thy sisters.
Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:5, Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:5, Jeremiah 51:51
53And I will bring back and restore them by bringing back Sodom, with her daughters, and by bringing back Samaria, and her daughters: and I will bring those that return of thee in the midst of them.
Jeremiah 12:16, Ezekiel 29:14, Isaiah 19:24, Isaiah 19:25, Ezekiel 39:25
54That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, comforting them.
Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Jeremiah 2:26, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23
55And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall return to their ancient state: and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their ancient state: and thou and thy daughters shall return to your ancient state.
Malachi 3:4, Ezekiel 16:53, Ezekiel 36:11, Malachi 3:4, Ezekiel 16:53
56And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,
Luke 15:28, Luke 15:30, Isaiah 65:5, Zephaniah 3:11, Luke 18:11
57Before thy malice was laid open: as it is at this time, making thee a reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all the daughters of Palestine round about thee, that encompass thee on all sides.
2 Kings 16:5, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:5, 2 Kings 16:7, Isaiah 7:1
58Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 23:49, Genesis 4:13, Lamentations 5:7, Genesis 4:13
59For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee, as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
Isaiah 24:5, Ezekiel 17:19, Isaiah 24:5, Ezekiel 17:19, Deuteronomy 29:10
60And I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Hebrews 8:10
61And thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed: when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger: and I will give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.
Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 4:26, Galatians 4:31, Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 4:26
62And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord,
Jeremiah 24:7, Jeremiah 24:7, Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 20:43
63That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and mayest no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I shall be pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
Psalms 39:9, Romans 3:19, Psalms 39:9, Romans 3:19, Daniel 9:7

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