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1 Again the word of the LORD [Yahweh] came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity [is] of the land of Canaan; your father [was] an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
4 And [as for] your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to supple [you]; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5 None eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out in the open field, to the lothing of your person, in the day that you were born.
6 And when I passed by you, and saw you polluted in your own blood, I said to you [when you were] in your blood, Live; yes, I said to you [when you were] in your blood, Live.
7 I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and become great, and you are come to excellent ornaments: [your] breasts are fashioned, and your hair is grown, whereas you [were] naked and bare.
8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time [was] the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you, and I anointed you with oil.
10 I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with badgers' skin, and I girded you about with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.
11 I decked you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.
12 And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment [was of] fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil: and you were exceeding beautiful, and you did prosper into a kingdom.
14 And your renown went forth among the heathen for your beauty: for it [was] perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon you, says the Lord GOD.
15 But you trusted in your own beauty, and plaid the harlot because of your renown, and poured out your fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
16 And of your garments you took, and decked your high places with divers colours, and plaid the harlot upon it: [the like things] will not come, neither will it be [so].
17 You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and committed whoredom with them,
18 And took your embroidered garments, and covered them: and you have set my oil and my incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, [with which] I fed you, you have even set it before them for a sweet savour: and [thus] it was, says the Lord GOD.
20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. [Is this] of your whoredoms a small matter,
21 That you have slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through [the fire] for them?
22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, [and] were polluted in your blood.
23 And it came to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord GOD;)
24 [That] you have also built to you an eminent place, and have made you a high place in every street.
25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbors, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of your lewd way.
28 You have played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were unsatiable; yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet could not be satisfied.
29 You have moreover multiplied your fornication in the land of Canaan to Chaldea; and yet you were not satisfied herewith.
30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these [things], the work of an imperious whorish woman;
31 In that you build your eminent place in the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorn hire;
32 [But as] a wife that commits adultery, [which] takes strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and hire them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in you from [other] women in your whoredoms, whereas none follows you to commit whoredoms: and in that you give a reward, and no reward is given to you, therefore you are contrary.
35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD [Yahweh]:
36 Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered through your whoredoms with your lovers, and with all the idols of your abominations, and by the blood of your children, which you gave to them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure, and all [them] that you have loved, with all [them] that you have hated; I will even gather them round about against you, and will discover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness.
38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give you blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give you into their hand, and they will throw down your eminent place, and will break down your high places: they will strip you also of your clothes, and will take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bare.
40 They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
41 And they will burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also will give no hire any more.
42 So will I make my fury toward you to rest, and my jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense your way upon [your] head, says the Lord GOD: and you will not commit this lewdness above all your abominations.
44 Behold, every one that uses proverbs will use [this] proverb against you, saying, As [is] the mother, [so is] her daughter.
45 You [are] your mother's daughter, that loathes her husband and her children; and you [are] the sister of your sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother [was] a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And your elder sister [is] Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at your left hand: and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, [is] Sodom and her daughters.
47 Yet have you not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were corrupted more than they in all your ways.
48 [As] I live, says the Lord GOD, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].
51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.
52 You also, which have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for your sins that you have committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than you: yes, be you confounded also, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.
53 When I will bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then [will I bring again] the captivity of your captives in the midst of them:
54 That you may bear your own shame, and may be confounded in all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate, then you and your daughters will return to your former estate.
56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
57 Before your wickedness was discovered, as at the time of [your] reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all [that are] round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise you round about.
58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says the LORD [Yahweh].
59 For thus says the Lord GOD; I will even deal with you as you have done, which have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
61 Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you will receive your sisters, your elder and your younger: and I will give them to you for daughters, but not by your covenant.
62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you will know that I [am] the LORD [Yahweh]:
63 That you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more because of your shame, when I am pacified toward you for all that you have done, says the Lord GOD.