Verse 47
Ezekiel 16:47
Bible in Basic English
47
Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹ֤א בְ/דַרְכֵי/הֶן֙ הָלַ֔כְתְּ וּ/בְ/תוֹעֲבֽוֹתֵי/הֶ֖ן עשיתי עָשִׂ֑ית כִּ/מְעַ֣ט קָ֔ט וַ/תַּשְׁחִ֥תִי מֵ/הֵ֖ן בְּ/כָל דְּרָכָֽיִ/ךְ
English Translation
And you did not walk in their ways, and in their abominations I acted very little, and I destroyed from you in all your paths.
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Chapter 16 Context
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And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,
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And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of...
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As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water t...
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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...
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And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stre...
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And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and...
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Now when I went past you, looking at you, I saw that your time was the time of love; and I put my sk...
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Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.
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And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about...
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And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.
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And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.
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So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk an...
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You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful...
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But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you we...
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And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like...
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And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself mal...
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And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.
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And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you p...
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And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their...
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That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?
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And in all your disgusting and false behaviour you had no memory of your early days, when you were u...
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And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,
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That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.
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You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting...
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And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving...
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Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given yo...
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And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting l...
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And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enoug...
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How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose an...
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For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open pla...
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The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!
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They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so...
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And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make lo...
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For this cause, O loose woman, give ear to the voice of the Lord:
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This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered...
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For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all t...
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And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have tak...
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I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broke...
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And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with thei...
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And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers...
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And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away fro...
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Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all...
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See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.
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You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her childre...
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Your older sister is Samaria, living at your left hand, she and her daughters: and your younger sist...
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Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if...
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By my life, says the Lord, Sodom your sister never did, she or her daughters, what you and your daug...
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Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wea...
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They were full of pride and did what was disgusting to me: and so I took them away as you have seen.
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And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greate...
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And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through...
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And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria a...
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So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.
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And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and he...
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Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride,
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Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Ed...
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The reward of your evil designs and your disgusting ways has come on you, says the Lord.
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For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on...
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But still I will keep in mind the agreement made with you in the days when you were young, and I wil...
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Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older...
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And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:
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So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of yo...
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Verse Information
- Book
- Ezekiel
- Chapter
- Chapter 16 (63 verses)
- Version
- Bible in Basic English