Verse 8

Ezekiel 16:8

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8 When I passed by again, I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for lovemaking. So I spread my robe over you and covered up your naked body. I committed myself to you and made a solemn agreement with you, and made you mine, declares the Lord God (Elohim).

Original Language Text

hebrew

וָ/אֶעֱבֹ֨ר עָלַ֜יִ/ךְ וָ/אֶרְאֵ֗/ךְ וְ/הִנֵּ֤ה עִתֵּ/ךְ֙ עֵ֣ת דֹּדִ֔ים וָ/אֶפְרֹ֤שׂ כְּנָפִ/י֙ עָלַ֔יִ/ךְ וָ/אֲכַסֶּ֖ה עֶרְוָתֵ֑/ךְ וָ/אֶשָּׁ֣בַֽע לָ֠/ךְ וָ/אָב֨וֹא בִ/בְרִ֜ית אֹתָ֗/ךְ נְאֻ֛ם אֲדֹנָ֥/י יְהוִ֖ה וַ/תִּ֥הְיִי לִֽ/י

English Translation

And I will pass over you and I will see you, and behold, your time has come, the time of lovers, and I will spread my wings over you and I will cover your nakedness, and I will swear to you, and I will come into a covenant with you, declares my Lord Yahweh, and you shall be mine.

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Chapter 16 Context

1 Another message from the Lord came to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 “Son of man, challenge Jerusalem over her disgusting practices. Focus ↗

3 Tell Jerusalem that this is what the Lord God (Elohim) says to her: You really are a Canaanite, both... Focus ↗

4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, and you weren't washed to clean you up, you weren't... Focus ↗

5 No one looked on you with love to do anything like this for you; no one showed any kind of care for... Focus ↗

6 But I passed by and saw you kicking, covered in your own blood. As you were lying there in your bloo... Focus ↗

7 I helped you to grow like a plant in the field. You grew up into a beautiful young woman. Your breas... Focus ↗

8 When I passed by again, I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for lovemaking. So I spread...

9 Then I washed you with water, cleaned off your blood, and anointed you with oil. Focus ↗

10 I put a beautifully embroidered dress on you and gave you fine leather sandals. I clothed you in fin... Focus ↗

11 I gave you jewelry—I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck. Focus ↗

12 I put a ring in your nose and earrings on your ears, and placed a beautiful crown on your head. Focus ↗

13 You wore gold and silver jewelry, and your clothes were made of the finest linen, expensive fabric,... Focus ↗

14 You were famous around the world because of your beauty, for I used my majestic power to make you so... Focus ↗

15 You were so proud of your beauty that you were unfaithful to me. You thought that because you were s... Focus ↗

16 You made yourself colorful pagan shrines out of the clothes I'd given you, and there you acted as a... Focus ↗

17 You used your embroidered clothes to dress them, and you placed before them my olive oil and incense... Focus ↗

18 You presented the food I had given you as an offering for them to accept —bread made from the best f... Focus ↗

19 You sacrificed your sons and daughters—the children you had for me—offering them as food for idols t... Focus ↗

20 You slaughtered my children, sacrificing them to idols. Focus ↗

21 While you were busy with all your disgusting practices and your prostitution, you forgot about the t... Focus ↗

22 Disaster is coming! Disaster is coming on you, declares the Lord God (Elohim). As well as all the ot... Focus ↗

23 you built yourself a pagan shrine, a high place of idol worship on every public square in the city. Focus ↗

24 You made yourselves high places of idol worship at the top of every street; you degraded yourself, o... Focus ↗

25 You gave yourself as a prostitute to your Egyptian neighbors with their large sexual organs, making... Focus ↗

26 So I acted to reduce my blessings to you. I let your enemies the Philistines do what they wanted to... Focus ↗

27 Because you weren't satisfied you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians. But even then you weren't... Focus ↗

28 So you took your promiscuous behavior to Babylonia, the country of merchants, but even then you were... Focus ↗

29 You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord... Focus ↗

30 Actually you weren't even a normal prostitute when you built yourselves pagan shrines at the top of... Focus ↗

31 You're a wife that loves adultery! You sleep with strangers instead of your husband! Focus ↗

32 Normally all prostitutes are paid, but you were the one giving gifts to all your lovers. You even br... Focus ↗

33 So you're the opposite of other prostitutes. No one comes to you asking for sex, and you pay the pro... Focus ↗

34 So, you prostitute, listen to the message from the Lord! Focus ↗

35 This is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: Because you were so crazy with desire you stripped yourself... Focus ↗

36 I'm going to bring together all the lovers you went to bed with, whether you loved them or hated the... Focus ↗

37 I will impose on you the punishment for women who commit adultery and those who murder; you will be... Focus ↗

38 Then I will hand you over to your lovers, and they will demolish your pagan shrines and destroy your... Focus ↗

39 They will come with a mob to attack you. They will stone you and chop you into pieces with their swo... Focus ↗

40 They will burn down your houses and punish you while many women watch. I will stop your prostitution... Focus ↗

41 Then I will finish being jealous and furious with you. I will calm down and won't be angry any more. Focus ↗

42 Since you didn't remember how I looked after you when you were young, but made me angry with all the... Focus ↗

43 Everyone who likes to use proverbs will quote this one about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ Focus ↗

44 You are the daughter of your mother who detested her husband and children. You are just like her! Yo... Focus ↗

45 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was So... Focus ↗

46 You didn't just follow their ways and do the same disgusting things they did, you very quickly becam... Focus ↗

47 As I live, declares the Lord God (Elohim), your sister Sodom and her daughters didn't ever do what y... Focus ↗

48 The sins of your sister Sodom were these: She and her daughters were proud, greedy, and lazy. They d... Focus ↗

49 They became arrogant and did disgusting things in my presence. So I got rid of them when I saw this. Focus ↗

50 Samaria didn't sin half as badly as you did. You have done far more disgusting things than they did.... Focus ↗

51 Now you're going to have to put up with your shame, since by your disgraceful sins you made them see... Focus ↗

52 Even so I'm going to bring Sodom and her daughters back from exile, and Samaria and her daughters to... Focus ↗

53 Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will be restored to what they... Focus ↗

54 Didn't you mock your sister Sodom when you were feeling proud, Focus ↗

55 before you were shown to be so wicked yourselves? Of course now you are mocked by the Edomites and t... Focus ↗

56 You will have to experience the consequences of your immorality and your disgusting practices, decla... Focus ↗

57 This is what the Lord God (Elohim) says: I'm going to punish you according to your sins, because you... Focus ↗

58 But I won't forget the agreement I made with you when you were young, and I will make an everlasting... Focus ↗

59 Then you will remember the way you are meant to live and be ashamed when you meet your older and you... Focus ↗

60 This is how I will endorse my agreement with you, and you will know that I am the Lord, Focus ↗

61 so that you will remember and be ashamed, and won't ever defend your disgraceful behavior when I for... Focus ↗

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Book: Ezekiel
Chapter: Chapter 16 (61 verses)
Version: Free Bible Version

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