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Ezekiel 16 – Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Jerusalem Plays the Harlot

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Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:2 - “Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:3 - and say, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:4 - “As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - “No eye had pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the [fn]open field, for your soul was abhorred on the day you were born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:6

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“Then I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood. So I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Indeed I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:7 - “I made you [fn]numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall, and came into the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:8

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“Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, [fn]you were at the time for love; so I spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine,” declares Lord Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:9 - “Then I washed you with water, rinsed your blood off from you, and anointed you with oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:10 - “I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:11 - “I also adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:12 - “I also put a ring in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a splendid crown on your head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:13 - “Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - “Then your name went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My majesty which I set on you,” declares Lord Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:15

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“But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your name, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by [fn]who might be willing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors, and played the harlot on them, [fn]which should never come about nor happen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:17 - “You also took your splendid [fn]jewelry made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:18 - “Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them and gave My oil and My incense before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:19 - “Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil, and honey with which I had you eat, you gave before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares Lord Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:20 - “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters, whom you had borne to Me, and sacrificed them to [fn]idols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:21 - “You slaughtered My children and gave them up to [fn]idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:22 - “Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare—you were squirming in your blood!

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“Now it happened after all your evil-‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares Lord Yahweh—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:24 - that you built yourself a shrine and made yourself a high place in every square.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:25 - “You built yourself a high place at the head of every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:26 - “You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your [fn]lustful neighbors, and you multiplied your harlotry to provoke Me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:27 - “Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and cut off your rations. And I gave you up to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:28 - “Moreover, you played the harlot with the Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:29 - “You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.”’”

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“How languishing is your heart,” declares Lord Yahweh, “while you do all these things, the actions of a [fn]bold-faced harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:31 - “When you built your shrine at the head of every way and made your high place in every square, in disdaining your earnings, you were not like a harlot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:32 - “You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:33 - “[fn]Men give gifts to all harlots, but you give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from all around for your harlotries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:34

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:34 - “Thus you are the opposite of those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot [fn]as you do, because you give away your earnings and no earnings are given to you; thus you are the opposite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:35

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Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to [fn]idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:37 - therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you hated. So I will gather them against you from all around and uncover your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:38

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - “Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:39 - “I will also give you into [fn]the hands of your lovers, and they will pull down your shrines, tear down your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your [fn]splendid jewelry, and will leave you naked and bare.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:40

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:40 - “They will bring up an assembly against you, and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - “They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will make you cease from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer give [fn]your earnings to your lovers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:42 - “So I will [fn]cause My wrath against you to be at rest, and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be quiet, and I will not be provoked anymore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:43

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:43 - “Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but [fn]have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your way down on your own head,” declares Lord Yahweh, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:44

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“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘[fn]Like mother, [fn]like daughter.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:45 - “You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:46 - “Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives [fn]north of you with her [fn]daughters; and your younger sister, who lives [fn]south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:47 - “Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:48 - “As I live,” declares Lord Yahweh, “Sodom your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:49 - “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had lofty pride, abundant food, and quiet ease, but she did not strengthen the hand of the afflicted and needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:50

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:50 - “Then they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. So I removed them [fn]when I saw it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:51

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - “Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear righteous by all your abominations which you have done.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:52

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - “Also bear your dishonor in that you have [fn]made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your dishonor, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:53

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“Nevertheless, I will [fn]return their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and [fn]along with them [fn]your own captivity,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:54

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:54 - in order that you may bear your dishonor and feel dishonor for all that you have done when you become a comfort to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:55

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:55 - “Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, [fn]will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:56

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:56 - “As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard in your mouth in your day of lofty pride,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:57

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:57 - before your wickedness was uncovered, [fn]so now you have become the reproach of the daughters of [fn]Edom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those all around you who despise you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:58 - “You have borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:59

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - For thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Yahweh’s Everlasting Covenant

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“Nevertheless, I Myself will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:61

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:61 - “Then you will remember your ways and feel dishonor when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:62

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:62 - “Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am Yahweh,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:63

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:63 - so that you may remember and be ashamed and never open your mouth anymore because of your dishonor, when I have atoned for you for all that you have done,” declares Lord Yahweh.
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LSB Footnotes
Lit surface
Lit a myriad
Lit your time was
Lit to whom it might be
Lit things which had not happened nor will it be
Lit articles
Lit them
Lit them
Lit great of flesh
Lit domineering
Lit They
Lit after you
Lit them
Lit their hands, and they
Lit articles of beauty
Lit a harlot’s hire
Or calm
As in ancient versions; Heb are angry against
Lit Her
Lit Her
Lit on your left
Environs, so through v 55
Lit from your right
Many ancient mss and versions as you have seen
Lit mediated for
Or restore
Lit in their midst
Lit the captivity of your captivity
Heb also includes will return...state after Sodom
Lit as at the time of
As in many mss and one version; M.T. Aram
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