1And the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:

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2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

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Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 20:4, Ezekiel 20:4, Isaiah 58:1

3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Jerusalem: Thine origin and thy nativity were of the land of Canaan. Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother a Hittite.

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Ezekiel 16:45, Ezekiel 16:45, Isaiah 51:1, Isaiah 51:2, Isaiah 51:1

4And as to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water so as to be cleansed. Thou wast not sprinkled with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling-clothes.

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Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:3, Genesis 15:13, Joshua 24:2, Deuteronomy 15:15

5No eye pitied thee, to do to thee any of these things, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out into the open field, so as to loathe thyself, on the day thou wast born.

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Deuteronomy 32:10, Deuteronomy 32:10, Exodus 1:22, Genesis 21:10, Lamentations 4:3

6And when I passed by thee, and saw thee in danger of being trodden under foot in thy blood, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live! yea, I said to thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live!

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Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Ephesians 2:4, Ephesians 2:5, Titus 3:3

7I caused thee to increase like the plant of the field, and thou didst grow, and become tall, and didst attain to distinguished charms. Thy breasts swelled, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

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Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:10, Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 1:10, Isaiah 62:3

8And when I passed by thee, and saw thee, behold, it was thy time, the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness; and I swore to thee, and entered into covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.

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Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:3, Ruth 3:9, Jeremiah 2:2, Jeremiah 2:3

9Then I washed thee with water, yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

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Ruth 3:3, Psalms 23:5, Ruth 3:3, Psalms 23:5, 1 Corinthians 6:11

10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and gave thee shoes of seal’s skin, and wrapped thee about with fine linen, and covered thee with silk.

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Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:18, Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:18, Isaiah 61:10

11And I decked thee with ornaments, and put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain upon thy neck.

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Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24:22, Isaiah 3:19, Isaiah 3:19, Genesis 41:42

12And I put a jewel in thy nostril, and ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.

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Isaiah 3:21, Isaiah 3:21, Isaiah 28:5, Isaiah 28:5, Jeremiah 13:18

13Thus wast thou adorned with gold and silver, and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work. Fine flour and honey and oil didst thou eat; and thou wast exceedingly beautiful, and didst prosper so as to become a queen.

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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 it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Lamentations 2:15, 1 Kings 10:24, Lamentations 2:15, 1 Kings 10:24, 1 Corinthians 4:7

15But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst lavish thy fornications on every one that passed by; his was it.

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Ezekiel 16:25, Isaiah 57:8, Jeremiah 2:20, Ezekiel 16:25, Isaiah 57:8

16And of thy garments thou didst take, and didst make thee high places, spread with divers colors, and didst play the harlot thereon, the like things to which shall not come to pass, neither shall they be.

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2 Kings 23:7, 2 Kings 23:7, Hosea 2:8, Ezekiel 7:20, 2 Chronicles 28:24

17Thou didst take also thy fair jewels of my gold and my silver, which I gave thee, and didst make to thyself images of men, and didst commit fornication with them;

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Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Jeremiah 2:27

18and thou didst take thy broidered garments and cover them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

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19My food also, which I gave thee, fine flour and oil and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst set it before them with a sweet savor; even thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Ezekiel 16:13, Ezekiel 16:13, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:13, Deuteronomy 32:14

20Moreover thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou didst bear to me, and these didst thou sacrifice to them to be devoured. Was it not enough for thee to commit fornication,

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Ezekiel 23:37, Ezekiel 23:37, Jeremiah 7:31, Psalms 106:37, Psalms 106:38

21that thou didst slay my children, and deliver them up to cause them to pass through the fire to them?

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2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 23:10, Deuteronomy 18:10, Psalms 106:37

22And in all thine abominations and thy fornications, thou didst not remember the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and in danger of being trampled under foot in thy blood.

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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 Jehovah,)

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Matthew 23:13, Matthew 23:29, Revelation 8:13, Ezekiel 13:18, Ezekiel 13:3

24that thou didst build for thee an arched place, and make thee a high place in every street;

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Jeremiah 2:20, Isaiah 57:7, Psalms 78:58, Ezekiel 16:39, Ezekiel 16:31

25at every head of the way didst thou build thy high place, and didst make thy beauty to be abhorred, and didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and didst multiply thy fornications.

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Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 16:31, Jeremiah 3:2, Ezekiel 16:31, Revelation 17:16

26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, having great members, and hast multiplied thy fornications to provoke me to anger.

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Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 23:19, Ezekiel 23:21, Ezekiel 20:7

27Therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee to the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.

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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 insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldst not be satisfied.

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2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:7, Jeremiah 2:36, Hosea 10:6, 2 Kings 16:10

29Thou hast also multiplied thy fornication with the land of Canaan, even to Chaldaea; and yet wast thou not satisfied therewith.

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Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:21, Judges 2:12, Judges 2:19, Ezekiel 13:14

30How faint was thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, that thou didst all those things which an imperious whorish wife doeth,

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Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 3:3, Jeremiah 4:22, Isaiah 1:3, Isaiah 3:9

31in that thou didst build thine arched place at the head of every way, and make thy high place in every street! Thou wast not like a harlot, who scoffeth at her hire,

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Isaiah 52:3, Ezekiel 16:33, Ezekiel 16:34, Isaiah 52:3, Ezekiel 16:33

32but as an adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband.

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Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 2:28, Ezekiel 23:45, Ezekiel 16:8, Jeremiah 2:25

33To all women that commit fornication men give a reward; but thou gavest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hiredst them to come to thee from every side to commit fornication with thee.

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Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10, Isaiah 57:9, Hosea 8:9, Hosea 8:10

34Thou wast the reverse of other women in thy fornications. None followed after thee to commit fornication, but thou gavest the reward, and no reward was given thee,—therefore thou wast the reverse.

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35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Jehovah!

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Ezekiel 13:2, Hosea 4:1, Isaiah 1:21, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 34:7

36Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy treasure was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered for fornication before thy lovers, and all thine abominable idols, and because of the blood of thy children, which thou didst give to them,

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Ezekiel 23:10, Ezekiel 23:10, Ezekiel 22:15, Revelation 3:18, Lamentations 1:9

37therefore, behold, I will gather all thy lovers, to whom thou wast pleasing, all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated, I will gather them against thee round about, and will uncover thy nakedness to them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

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Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:10, Jeremiah 13:22, Hosea 2:3, Hosea 2:10

38And I will judge thee as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and I will cause thy blood to flow in fury and jealousy.

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Leviticus 20:10, Leviticus 20:10, Genesis 9:6, Jeremiah 18:21, Zephaniah 1:17

39And I will give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine arched place, and break down thy high places. They shall also strip thee of thy clothes, and leave thee naked and bare.

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Ezekiel 23:26, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 23:26, Hosea 2:3, Ezekiel 16:24

40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords;

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Ezekiel 23:47, Ezekiel 23:47, Habakkuk 1:6, Habakkuk 1:10, Habakkuk 1:6

41and they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt give hire no more.

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Ezekiel 23:48, Ezekiel 23:48, Jeremiah 52:13, Jeremiah 39:8, 2 Kings 25:9

42So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee; and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

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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 raged against me in all these things, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah, so that thou shalt not commit this wickedness in addition to all thy abominations.

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Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 11:21, Psalms 78:42, Ezekiel 22:31

44Behold, all they that use proverbs shall utter this proverb concerning thee: "As the mother, so the daughter."

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Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3, Ezekiel 18:2, Ezekiel 18:3, 1 Samuel 24:13

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

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Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Isaiah 1:4, Zechariah 11:8, Ezekiel 16:15

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

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Ezekiel 23:4, Ezekiel 23:4, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Ezekiel 16:48

47Yet thou hast not walked in their ways, nor done according to their abominations: that was disdained by you, as a very little thing; thou hast been more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

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2 Kings 21:9, 2 Kings 21:9, Ezekiel 16:51, Ezekiel 5:6, Ezekiel 5:7

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.

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Matthew 10:15, Matthew 10:15, Acts 7:52, Luke 10:12, Matthew 11:23

49Behold, this was the iniquity of Sodom, thy sister: in pride, superabundance, and careless ease did she live, she and her daughters, and the hand of the poor and needy she did not strengthen;

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Ezekiel 28:2, Genesis 13:10, Psalms 138:6, Ezekiel 28:2, Genesis 13:10

50and they were haughty, and committed abomination before me; therefore I took them away when I saw it.

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Genesis 18:20, Genesis 19:5, Genesis 13:13, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 18:20

51Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

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Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 3:11, Romans 3:9

52Now, therefore, bear thou thy shame, to which thou hast condemned thy sisters, since by thy sins which thou hast committed, more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou. Yea, be thou confounded and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

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Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:5, Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:5, Jeremiah 51:51

53Yet I will bring them back from their captivity, even Sodom and her daughters from their captivity, and Samaria and her daughters from their captivity; thee also will I bring back from thy captivity in the midst of them;

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Jeremiah 12:16, Ezekiel 29:14, Isaiah 19:24, Isaiah 19:25, Ezekiel 39:25

54that thou mayst bear thy shame, and mayst be confounded on account of all which thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort to them.

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Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23, Jeremiah 2:26, Ezekiel 14:22, Ezekiel 14:23

55And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

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Malachi 3:4, Ezekiel 16:53, Ezekiel 36:11, Malachi 3:4, Ezekiel 16:53

56And yet Sodom, thy sister, was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride

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Luke 15:28, Luke 15:30, Isaiah 65:5, Zephaniah 3:11, Luke 18:11

57before thy wickedness was discovered, as in the time of thy reproach from the daughters of Syria, and from all that were round about her, and from the daughters of the Philistines, who despised thee round about.

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2 Kings 16:5, 2 Kings 16:7, 2 Kings 16:5, 2 Kings 16:7, Isaiah 7:1

58Thy wickedness and thine abominations must thou now bear, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Ezekiel 23:49, Ezekiel 23:49, Genesis 4:13, Lamentations 5:7, Genesis 4:13

59For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will do to thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath and hast broken the covenant.

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Isaiah 24:5, Ezekiel 17:19, Isaiah 24:5, Ezekiel 17:19, Deuteronomy 29:10

60But I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.

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Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20, Hebrews 8:10

61Then shalt thou remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger, and I shall give them to thee for daughters, but not by thy observance of thy covenant.

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Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 4:26, Galatians 4:31, Hebrews 8:13, Galatians 4:26

62But I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;

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Jeremiah 24:7, Jeremiah 24:7, Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 6:7, Ezekiel 20:43

63that thou mayst remember and be confounded, and not open thy mouth any more for shame, when I forgive thee all which thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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Psalms 39:9, Romans 3:19, Psalms 39:9, Romans 3:19, Daniel 9:7