Again the
word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
02 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her
abominations,
03 And say, Thus saith the Lord God unto
Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the
land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and
thy mother an Hittite.
04 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast
born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou
washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not
salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
05 None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto
thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast
cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy
person, in the day that thou wast born.
06 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee
polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee
when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said
unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
07 I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of
the field, and thou hast increased and waxen
great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:
thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is
grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
08 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon
thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and
I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy
nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered
into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God,
and thou becamest mine.
09 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I
throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I
anointed thee with oil.
10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and
shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee
about with fine linen, and I covered thee with
silk.
11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put
bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy
neck.
12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and
earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown
upon thine head.
13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver;
and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and
broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and
honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding
beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen
for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my
comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the
Lord God.
15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and
playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and
pouredst out thy fornications on every one that
passed by; his it was.
16 And of thy garments thou didst take, and
deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and
playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things
shall not come, neither shall it be so.
17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my
gold and of my silver, which I had given thee,
and madest to thyself images of men, and didst
commit whoredom with them,
18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and
coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and
mine incense before them.
19 My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour,
and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou
hast even set it before them for a sweet savour:
and thus it was, saith the Lord God.
20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy
daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and
these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be
devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small
matter,
21 That thou hast slain my children, and
delivered them to cause them to pass through the
fire for them?
22 And in all thine abominations and thy
whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of
thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and
wast polluted in thy blood.
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness,
(woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord God;)
24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent
place, and hast made thee an high place in every
street.
25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head
of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be
abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one
that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the
Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and
hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to
anger.
27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand
over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary
food, and delivered thee unto the will of them
that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines,
which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
28 Thou hast played the whore also with the
Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea,
thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet
couldest not be satisfied.
29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication
in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou
wast not satisfied therewith.
30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God,
seeing thou doest all these things, the work of
an imperious whorish woman;
31 In that thou buildest thine eminent place in
the head of every way, and makest thine high
place in every street; and hast not been as an
harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which
taketh strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest
thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them,
that they may come unto thee on every side for
thy whoredom.
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34 And the contrary is in thee from other women
in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to
commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a
reward, and no reward is given unto thee,
therefore thou art contrary.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the
Lord:
36 Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy
filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness
discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers,
and with all the idols of thy abominations, and
by the blood of thy children, which thou didst
give unto them;
37 Behold, therefore I will gather all thy
lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and
all them that thou hast loved, with all them that
thou hast hated; I will even gather them round
about against thee, and will discover thy
nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy
nakedness.
38 And I will judge thee, as women that break
wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will
give thee blood in fury and jealousy.
39 And I will also give thee into their hand, and
they shall throw down thine eminent place, and
shall break down thy high places: they shall
strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take
thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
40 They shall also bring up a company against
thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and
thrust thee through with their swords.
41 And 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 also shalt give no
hire any more.
42 So 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.
43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of
thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these
things; behold, therefore I also will recompense
thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord God: and
thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all
thine abominations.
44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall
use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the
mother, so is her daughter.
45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth
her husband and her children; and thou art the
sister of thy sisters, which lothed their
husbands and their children: your mother was an
Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
46 And thine 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 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor
done after their abominations: but, as if that
were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted
more than they in all thy ways.
48 As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy
sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as
thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy 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 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.
52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear
thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast
committed more abominable than they: they are
more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded
also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast
justified thy sisters.
53 When I shall 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 thy captives in
the midst of them:
54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and
mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done,
in that thou art a comfort unto them.
55 When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters,
shall return to their former estate, and Samaria
and her daughters shall return to their former
estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return
to your former estate.
56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy
mouth in the day of thy pride,
57 Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at
the time of thy reproach of the daughters of
Syria, and all that are round about her, the
daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee
round about.
58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the Lord.
59 For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal
with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised
the oath in breaking the covenant.
60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with
thee in the days of thy youth, and I will
establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be
ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters,
thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them
unto 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 never open thy mouth any more because of thy
shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all
that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.
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