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chapter 16
1
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the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations.
3 And 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.
4 And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity
thy navel wits not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor
salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts.
5 No 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.
6 And 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.
7 I 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 wast naked,
and full of confusion.
8 And 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.
9 And I washed thee with water, and cleansed away thy
blood from thee: and I anointed thee with oil.
10 And I clothed thee with embroidery, and shed thee
with violet coloured shoes : and I girded thee about with fine linen, and
clothed thee with fine garments.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets
on thy hands, and a chain about thy neck.
12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead and earrings in
thy ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and silver, and
wast clothed with fine linen, and embroidered work, and many colours: thou
didst eat fine hour, and honey, and oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful: and
wast advanced to be a queen.
14 And 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.
15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst the harlot
because of thy renown, and thou hast prostituted thyself to every passenger, to
be his.
16 And 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.
17 And 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.
18 And thou tookest thy garments of divers colours, and
coveredst them : and settest my oil and my sweet incense before them.
19 And 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.
20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and thy daughters,
whom thou hast borne to me: and best sacrificed the same to them to be
devoured. Is thy fornication small?
21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my children to them,
consecrating them by fire.
22 And 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.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness (woe,
woe to thee, saith the Lord God)
24 That thou didst also build thee a common stew, and
madest thee a brothel house in every street.
25 At 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.
26 And thou hast committed fornication with the
Egyptians thy neighbours, men of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy
fornications to provoke me.
27 Behold, 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.
28 Thou 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.
29 Thou hast also multiplied thy fornications in the
land of Chanaan with the Chaldeans: and neither so wast then satisfied.
30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord
God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?
31 Because 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,
32 But as an adulteress, that bringeth in strangers
over her husband.
33 Gifts 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.
34 And 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.
35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.
36 Thus 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:
37 Behold, 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.
38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that
shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And 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.
40 And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they
shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.
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.
42 And my indignation shall rest in thee: and my
jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will cease and be angry no more.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy
youth, but hast provoked me in all these things: wherefore I also have turned
thy ways upon thy head, saith the Lord God, and I have not done according to
thy wicked deeds in all thy abominations.
44 Behold every one that useth a common proverb, shall
use this against thee, saying: As the mother was, so also is her daughter.
45 Thou 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.
46 And 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.
47 But 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
48 as I live, saith the Lord God, thy sister Sodom
herself, and her daughters, have not done as thou hast done, and thy daughters.
49 Behold 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 to the poor.
50 And they were lifted up, and committed abominations
before me: and I took them away as thou hast seen.
51 And 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.
52 Therefore do thou also bear thy confusion, thou that
hast surpassed thy sisters with thy sine, 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.
53 And 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.
54 That thou mayest bear thy shame, and mayest be
confounded in all that thou hast done, comforting them.
55 And 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.
56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard of in thy mouth,
in the day of thy pride,
57 Before 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.
58 Thou hast borne thy wickedness, and thy disgrace,
saith the Lord God.
59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will deal with thee,
as thou hast despised the oath, in breaking the covenant:
60 And I will remember my covenant with thee in the
days of thy youth: and I will establish with thee an everlasting covenant.
61 And 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.
62 And I will establish my covenant with thee: and thou
shalt know that I am the Lord,
63 That 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.
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