Verse 3

Ezekiel 16:3

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3 And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/אָמַרְתָּ֞ כֹּה אָמַ֨ר אֲדֹנָ֤/י יְהוִה֙ לִ/יר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם מְכֹרֹתַ֨יִ/ךְ֙ וּ/מֹ֣לְדֹתַ֔יִ/ךְ מֵ/אֶ֖רֶץ הַֽ/כְּנַעֲנִ֑י אָבִ֥י/ךְ הָ/אֱמֹרִ֖י וְ/אִמֵּ֥/ךְ חִתִּֽית

English Translation

And you shall say, "Thus says my Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your sellers and your children are from the land of the Canaanite, your father is the Amorite and your mother is the Hittite."

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Chapter 16 Context

1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Focus ↗

2 Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways, Focus ↗

3 And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of...

4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water t... Focus ↗

5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out i... Focus ↗

6 And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stre... Focus ↗

7 And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and... Focus ↗

8 Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my sk... Focus ↗

9 Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil. Focus ↗

10 And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about... Focus ↗

11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck. Focus ↗

12 And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. Focus ↗

13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk an... Focus ↗

14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful... Focus ↗

15 But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you we... Focus ↗

16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like... Focus ↗

17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself mal... Focus ↗

18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them. Focus ↗

19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you p... Focus ↗

20 And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their... Focus ↗

21 That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them? Focus ↗

22 And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were u... Focus ↗

23 And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord, Focus ↗

24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place. Focus ↗

25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting... Focus ↗

26 And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving... Focus ↗

27 Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given yo... Focus ↗

28 And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting l... Focus ↗

29 And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enoug... Focus ↗

30 How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose an... Focus ↗

31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open pla... Focus ↗

32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband! Focus ↗

33 They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so... Focus ↗

34 And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make lo... Focus ↗

35 For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord: Focus ↗

36 This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered... Focus ↗

37 For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all t... Focus ↗

38 And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have tak... Focus ↗

39 I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broke... Focus ↗

40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with thei... Focus ↗

41 And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers... Focus ↗

42 And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away fro... Focus ↗

43 Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all... Focus ↗

44 See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter. Focus ↗

45 You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her childre... Focus ↗

46 Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sist... Focus ↗

47 Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if... Focus ↗

48 By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daug... Focus ↗

49 Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wea... Focus ↗

50 They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen. Focus ↗

51 And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greate... Focus ↗

52 And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through... Focus ↗

53 And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria a... Focus ↗

54 So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you. Focus ↗

55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and he... Focus ↗

56 Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride, Focus ↗

57 Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Ed... Focus ↗

58 The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord. Focus ↗

59 For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on... Focus ↗

60 But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I wil... Focus ↗

61 Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older... Focus ↗

62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord: Focus ↗

63 So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of yo... Focus ↗

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Book: Ezekiel
Chapter: Chapter 16 (63 verses)
Version: Bible in Basic English

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