16:1 Moreover the word of Yehovah came to
me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, testify to Jerusalem [of] her iniquities;
16:3 and thou shalt say, Thus saith Yehovah to Jerusalem; Thy root and thy
birth are of the land of Chanaan: thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother
a Chettite.
16:4 And [as for] thy birth in the day wherein thou wast born, thou didst
not bind thy breasts, and thou wast not washed in water, neither wast thou
salted with salt, neither wast thou swathed in swaddling-bands.
16:5 Nor did mine eye pity thee, to do for thee one of all these things, to
feel at all for thee; but thou wast cast out on the face of the field,
because of the deformity of thy person, in the day wherein thou wast born.
16:6 And I passed by to thee, and saw thee polluted in thy blood; and I said
to thee, [Let there be] life out of thy blood:
16:7 increase; I have made thee as the springing grass of the field. So thou
didst increase and grow, and didst enter into great cities: thy breasts were
set, and thy hair grew, whereas thou wast naked and bare.
16:8 And I passed by thee and saw thee, and, behold, [it was] thy time and a
time of resting; and I spread my wings over thee, and covered thy shame, and
swear to thee: and I entered into covenant with thee, saith Yehovah, and
thou becamest mine.
16:9 And I washed thee in water, and washed thy blood from thee, and
anointed thee with oil.
16:10 And I clothed thee with embroidered [garments], and clothed thee
beneath with purple, and girded thee with fine linen, and clothed thee with
silk,
16:11 and decked thee also with ornaments, and put bracelets on thine hands,
and a necklace on thy neck.
16:12 And I put a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a
crown of glory on thine head.
16:13 So thou wast adorned with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine
linen, and silk, and variegated work: thou didst eat fine flour, and oil,
and honey, and didst become extremely beautiful.
16:14 And thy name went forth among the nations for thy beauty: because it
was perfected with elegance, [and] in the comeliness which I put upon thee,
saith Yehovah.
16:15 Thou didst thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown,
and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by.
16:16 and thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of
needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never
come in, nor shall [the like] take place.
16:17 And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of
what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst
commit whoredom with them.
16:18 And thou didst take thy variegated apparel and didst clothe them, and
thou didst set before them mine oil and mine incense.
16:19 And [thou tookest] my bread which I gave thee, ([yea] I fed thee with
fine flour and oil and honey) and didst set them before them for a
sweet-smelling savour: yea, it was so, saith Yehovah.
16:20 And thou tookest thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou borest, land
didst sacrifice [these] to them to be destroyed. Thou didst go a-whoring as
[if that were] little,
16:21 and didst slay thy children, and gavest them up in offering them to
them for an expiation.
16:22 This is beyond all thy fornication, and thou didst not remember thine
infancy, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] didst live [though] defiled in
thy blood.
16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, saith Yehovah,
16:24 that thou didst build thyself a house of fornication, and didst make
thyself a public place in every street;
16:25 and on the head of every way thou didst set up thy fornications, and
didst defile thy beauty, and didst open thy feet to every passer by, and
didst multiply thy fornication.
16:26 And thou didst go a-whoring after the children of Egypt thy neighbors,
great of flesh; and didst go a-whoring, often to provoke me to anger.
16:27 And if I stretch out my hand against thee, then will I abolish thy
statutes, and deliver [thee] up to the wills of them that hate thee, [even
to] the daughters of the Philistines that turned thee aside from the way
wherein thou sinned.
16:28 And thou didst go a-whoring to the daughters of Assur, and not even
thus wast thou satisfied; yea, thou didst go a-whoring, and wast not
satisfied.
16:29 And thou didst multiply thy covenants with the land of the Chaldeans;
and not even with these wast thou satisfied.
16:30 Why should I make a covenant with thy daughter, saith Yehovah, while
thou doest all these things, the works of a harlot? and thou hast gone
a-whoring in a threefold degree with thy daughters.
16:31 Thou hast built a house of harlotry in every top of a way, and hast
set up thine high place in every street; and thou didst become as a harlot
gathering hires.
16:32 An adulteress resembles thee, taking rewards of her husband.
16:33 She has even given rewards to all that went a-whoring after her, and
thou hast given rewards to all thy lovers, yea, thou didst load them with
rewards, that they should come to thee from every side for thy fornication.
16:34 And there has happened in thee perverseness in thy fornication beyond
[other] women, and they have committed fornication with thee, in that thou
givest hires over and above, and hires were not given to thee; and [thus]
perverseness happened in thee.
16:35 Therefore, harlot, hear the word of Yehovah:
16:36 Thus saith Yehovah, Because thou hast poured forth thy money
therefore thy shame shall be discovered in thy harlotry with thy lovers, and
[with] regard to all the imaginations of thine iniquities, and for the blood
of thy children which thou hast given to them.
16:37 Therefore, behold, I [will] gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast
consorted, and all whom thou hast loved, with all whom thou didst hate; and
I will gather them against thee round about, and will expose thy wickedness
to them, and they shall see all thy shame.
16:38 And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance of an adulteress, and
I will bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy.
16:39 And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down
thy house of harlotry, and destroy thine high place; and they shall strip
thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee
naked and bare.
16:40 and they shall bring multitudes upon thee, and they shall stone thee
with stones, and pierce thee with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and shall execute
vengeance on thee in the sight of many women: and I will turn thee back from
harlotry, and I will no more give [thee] rewards.
16:42 So will I slacken my fury against thee, and my jealousy shall be
removed from thee, and I will rest, and be no more careful [for thee].
16:43 Because thou didst not remember thine infancy, and thou didst grieve
me in all these things; therefore, behold, I have recompensed thy ways upon
thine head, saith Yehovah: for thus hast thou wrought ungodliness above all
thine [other] iniquities.
16:44 These are all the things they have spoken against thee in a proverb,
saying,
16:45 As is the mother, so is thy mother's daughter: thou art she that has
rejected her husband and her children; and the sisters of thy sisters have
rejected their husbands and their children: your mother was a Chettite, and
[your] father an Amorite.
16:46 Your elder sister who dwells on thy left hand is Samaria, she and her
daughters: and thy younger sister, that dwells on the right hand, is Sodom
and er daughters.
16:47 Yet notwithstanding thou hast not walked in their ways, neither hast
thou done according to their iniquities within a little, but thou hast
exceeded them in all thy ways.
16:48 [As] I live, saith Yehovah, this Sodom and her daughters have not
done as thou and thy daughters have done.
16:49 Moreover this was the sin of thy sister Sodom, pride: she and her
daughters lived in pleasure, in fullness of bread [and] in abundance: this
belonged to her and her daughters, and they helped not the hand of the poor
and needy.
16:50 And they boasted, and wrought iniquities before me: so I cut them off
as I saw [fit].
16:51 Also Samaria has not sinned according to half of thy sins; but thou
hast multiplied thine iniquities beyond them, and thou hast justified thy
sisters in all thine iniquities which thou hast committed.
16:52 Thou therefore bear thy punishment, for that thou hast corrupted thy
sisters by thy sins which thou hast committed beyond them; and thou hast
made them [appear] more righteous than thyself: thou therefore be ashamed,
and bear thy dishonour, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
16:53 And I will turn their captivity, [even] the captivity of Sodom and her
daughters; and I will turn the captivity of Samaria and her daughters; and I
will turn thy captivity in the midst of them:
16:54 that thou mayest bear thy punishment, and be dishonoured for all that
thou hast done in provoking me to anger.
16:55 And thy sister Sodom and her daughters shall be restored as they were
at the beginning, and thou and thy daughters shall be restored as ye were at
the beginning.
16:56 And surely thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the days
of thy pride:
16:57 before thy wickedness was discovered, even now thou art the reproach
of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, [even] of
the daughters of the Philistines that compass thee round about.
16:58 [As for] thine ungodliness and thine iniquities, thou hast borne them,
saith Yehovah.
16:59 Thus saith Yehovah; I will even do to thee as thou hast done, as thou
hast dealt shamefully in these things to transgress my covenant.
16:60 And I will remember my covenant [made] with thee in the days of thine
infancy, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then thou shalt remember thy way, and shalt be utterly dishonoured
when thou receivest thine elder sisters with thy younger ones: and I will
give them to thee for building up, but not by thy covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I
am Yehovah:
16:63 that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and mayest no more be able
to open thy mouth for thy shame, when I am reconciled to thee for all that
thou hast done, saith Yehovah. |
16:1 Again the word of Yehovah came unto
me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
16:3 And say, Thus saith Yehovah GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy
nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother
an Hittite.
16:4 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.
16:5 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.
16:6 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.
16:7 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.
16:8 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 Yehovah GOD, and thou becamest mine.
16:9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood
from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
16:10 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.
16:11 I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands,
and a chain on thy neck.
16:12 And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a
beautiful crown upon thine head.
16:13 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.
16:14 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 Yehovah
GOD.
16:15 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.
16:16 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.
16:17 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,
16:18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast
set mine oil and mine incense before them.
16:19 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 Yehovah GOD.
16:20 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,
16:21 That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to
pass through the fire for them?
16:22 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.
16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee!
saith Yehovah GOD;)
16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made
thee an high place in every street.
16:25 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.
16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours,
great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
16:27 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.
16:28 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.
16:29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan
unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied therewith.
16:30 How weak is thine heart, saith Yehovah GOD, seeing thou doest all
these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
16:31 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;
16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead
of her husband!
16:33 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.
16:34 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.
16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yehovah:
16:36 Thus saith Yehovah 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;
16:37 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.
16:38 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.
16:39 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.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone
thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
16:41 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.
16:42 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.
16:43 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 Yehovah GOD: and thou shalt not commit this
lewdness above all thine abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against
thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 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.
16:46 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.
16:47 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.
16:48 As I live, saith Yehovah GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor
her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
16:49 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.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore
I took them away as I saw good.
16:51 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.
16:52 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.
16:53 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:
16:54 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.
16:55 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.
16:56 For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy
pride,
16:57 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.
16:58 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith Yehovah.
16:59 For thus saith Yehovah GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast
done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy
youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.
16:61 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.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I
am Yehovah:
16:63 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 Yehovah GOD. |