1Again the word of the Lord came to me:2“Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her abominations, (Eze 2:1; Eze 22:2)3and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. (Ge 15:16; De 7:1; Jud 1:26; Eze 16:45)4And as for your birth, on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. (Ho 2:3)5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born. (De 32:10; Eze 16:4)6“And when I passed by you and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ (Eze 16:22)7I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. (Ex 1:7; Eze 16:11; Eze 16:13; Eze 16:22; Eze 16:39; Eze 23:29)8“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, and you became mine. (Ex 19:5; Ex 24:7; Ru 3:9; Jer 2:2)9Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil. (Ru 3:3; Ps 23:5)10I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.[1] (Ex 26:36; Eze 16:13; Eze 16:18; Eze 26:16; Eze 27:7; Eze 27:16)11And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. (Ge 24:22; Ge 24:30; Ge 24:47; Eze 23:40; Eze 23:42)12And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.13Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. (De 32:13; Ps 48:2; Eze 16:15; Eze 16:25)14And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God. (La 2:15; Eze 23:10)15“But you trusted in your beauty and played the whore[2] because of your renown and lavished your whorings[3] on any passerby; your beauty[4] became his. (Le 17:7; Isa 1:21; Isa 57:8; Jer 2:20; Jer 3:2; Jer 3:6; Jer 3:20; Eze 16:13; Eze 16:25; Eze 23:3; Eze 23:8; Eze 23:11; Ho 1:2)16You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[5]17You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. (Eze 7:20; Eze 16:11; Eze 23:14)18And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, and set my oil and my incense before them. (Eze 23:41)19Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. (Eze 6:13; Eze 16:13; Ho 2:8)20And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter (Eze 16:21; Eze 16:36; Eze 20:26; Eze 20:31; Eze 23:37)21that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them?22And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood. (Eze 16:6; Eze 16:43; Eze 16:60)23“And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God),24you built yourself a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. (Eze 16:39)25At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself[6] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. (Isa 57:7; Jer 2:20; Jer 3:2; Eze 16:14; Eze 16:15; Eze 16:31)26You also played the whore with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your whoring, to provoke me to anger. (Jer 7:18; Eze 16:15; Eze 20:7; Eze 23:14; Eze 23:19)27Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. (2Sa 1:20; Eze 5:10; Eze 16:37; Eze 16:57)28You played the whore also with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. (2Ki 16:7; 2Ch 28:16; Jer 2:18; Jer 2:36; Eze 16:15; Eze 23:12)29You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. (Eze 23:14)30“How sick is your heart,[7] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,31building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment. (Eze 16:33)32Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!33Men give gifts to all prostitutes, but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. (Eze 16:41; Ho 8:9)34So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different. (Eze 16:33)35“Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord:36Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, (Eze 16:20; Eze 16:38)37therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from every side and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. (La 1:8; Eze 16:27; Eze 16:39; Eze 23:10; Eze 23:22; Eze 23:28; Eze 23:29; Ho 2:10; Ho 8:10; Re 17:16)38And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. (Ge 9:6; Le 20:10; De 22:22; Eze 18:10; Eze 21:30; Eze 23:37; Eze 23:45)39And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down your vaulted chamber and break down your lofty places. They shall strip you of your clothes and take your beautiful jewels and leave you naked and bare. (Eze 16:7; Eze 16:11; Eze 16:24; Eze 16:25; Eze 23:26; Ho 2:3)40They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. (Jos 7:24; Eze 23:46; Eze 23:47)41And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women. I will make you stop playing the whore, and you shall also give payment no more. (2Ki 25:9; Jer 39:8; Jer 52:13; Eze 5:8; Eze 16:33; Eze 16:40; Eze 23:27; Eze 23:48)42So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. (Eze 5:13)43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations? (Eze 7:4; Eze 16:22; Eze 16:60; Eze 22:9)44“Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’ (Eze 12:22; Eze 18:2)45You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. (Eze 16:3; Eze 16:46)46And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. (Isa 1:10; Eze 16:48; Eze 16:51; Eze 16:53; Eze 16:55; Eze 23:4; Eze 23:33)47Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. (2Ki 21:9; 2Ch 33:9; Jer 2:10; Eze 5:6; Eze 5:7; Eze 16:48; Eze 16:51)48As I live, declares the Lord God, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. (Isa 49:18; Eze 5:11; Eze 14:16; Eze 14:18; Eze 14:20; Eze 16:47; Eze 17:16; Eze 17:19; Eze 18:3; Eze 20:3; Eze 20:33; Zep 2:9; Mt 10:15; Mt 11:24)49Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. (Ge 13:10)50They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it. (Ge 13:13; Ge 19:24)51Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. (Jer 3:11; Eze 16:46; Eze 16:52)52Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous. (Eze 32:24)53“I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, (Eze 29:14; Eze 39:25; Zep 2:7; Zep 3:20)54that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all that you have done, becoming a consolation to them. (Eze 14:22; Eze 16:61)55As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, and you and your daughters shall return to your former state. (Eze 16:53; Eze 36:11)56Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride, (Isa 2:6)57before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have become an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria[8] and all those around her, and for the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who despise you. (2Ki 16:5; 2Ch 28:18; Isa 7:1; Eze 16:27; Eze 28:24; Eze 28:26)58You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord. (Eze 14:10; Eze 23:35; Eze 23:49)
The Lord’s Everlasting Covenant
59“For thus says the Lord God: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, (Eze 17:15; Eze 17:18)60yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. (Le 26:42; Jer 32:40; Jer 50:5; Eze 16:8; Eze 16:22; Eze 16:43)61Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of[9] the covenant with you. (Isa 54:1; Eze 6:9; Eze 16:45; Eze 16:54)62I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord, (Eze 6:7)63that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God.” (Ro 3:19)
1The word of the Lord came to me:2‘Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices3and say, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Jerusalem: your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.4On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.5No-one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.6‘ “Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’[1]7I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.8‘ “Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.9‘ “I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.10I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments.11I adorned you with jewellery: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace round your neck,12and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.13So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.14And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendour I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign Lord.15‘ “But you trusted in your beauty and used your fame to become a prostitute. You lavished your favours on anyone who passed by and your beauty became his.16You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[2]17You also took the fine jewellery I gave you, the jewellery made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.18And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.19Also the food I provided for you – the flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat – you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign Lord.20‘ “And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?21You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.22In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood.23‘ “Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness,24you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine in every public square.25At every street corner you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.26You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your neighbours with large genitals, and aroused my anger with your increasing promiscuity.27So I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were shocked by your lewd conduct.28You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.29Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,[3] a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.30‘ “I am filled with fury against you,[4] declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!31When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.32‘ “You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband!33All prostitutes receive gifts, but you give gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favours.34So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no-one runs after you for your favours. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.35‘ “Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!36This is what the Sovereign Lord says: because you poured out your lust and exposed your naked body in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood,37therefore I am going to gather all your lovers, with whom you found pleasure, those you loved as well as those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and will strip you in front of them, and they will see you stark naked.38I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger.39Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your mounds and destroy your lofty shrines. They will strip you of your clothes and take your fine jewellery and leave you stark naked.40They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.41They will burn down your houses and inflict punishment on you in the sight of many women. I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay your lovers.42Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.43‘ “Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign Lord. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices?44‘ “Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’45You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.46Your elder sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom.47You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they.48As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done.49‘ “Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.50They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.51Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done more detestable things than they, and have made your sisters seem righteous by all these things you have done.52Bear your disgrace, for you have furnished some justification for your sisters. Because your sins were more vile than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So then, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.53‘ “However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them,54so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort.55And your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to what they were before; and you and your daughters will return to what you were before.56You would not even mention your sister Sodom in the day of your pride,57before your wickedness was uncovered. Even so, you are now scorned by the daughters of Edom[5] and all her neighbours and the daughters of the Philistines – all those around you who despise you.58You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your detestable practices, declares the Lord.59‘ “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will deal with you as you deserve, because you have despised my oath by breaking the covenant.60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.61Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you.62So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.63Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.” ’
1A message from the LORD came to me. The LORD said,2‘Son of man, tell the people of Jerusalem the evil things they have done. I hate those things.3Tell them, “The LORD and King speaks to Jerusalem. He says, ‘Your history in the land of Canaan goes back a long way. Your father was an Amorite. Your mother was a Hittite.4On the day you were born your cord was not cut. You were not washed with water to clean you up. You were not rubbed with salt. And you were not wrapped in large strips of cloth.5No one took pity on you. No one was concerned enough to do any of these things for you. Instead, you were thrown out into an open field. You were hated on the day you were born.6‘ “ ‘I was passing by. I saw you kicking around in your blood. As you were lying there, I said to you, “Live!”7I made you grow like a plant in a field. Soon you had grown up. You became a young adult. Your breasts had formed. Your hair had grown. But you were completely naked.8‘ “ ‘Later, I was passing by again. I looked at you. I saw that you were old enough for love. So I married you and took good care of you. I covered your naked body. I made a firm promise to you. I entered into a covenant with you. And you became mine,’ announces the LORD and King.9‘ “ ‘I bathed you with water. I washed the blood off you. And I put lotions on you.10I put a beautiful dress on you. I gave you sandals made out of fine leather. I dressed you in fine linen. I covered you with expensive clothes.11I decorated you with jewellery. I put bracelets on your arms. I gave you a necklace for your neck.12I put rings on your nose and ears. And I gave you a beautiful crown for your head.13So you were decorated with gold and silver. Your clothes were made out of fine linen. They were made out of expensive and beautiful cloth. Your food was made out of honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful. You became a queen.14You were so beautiful that your fame spread among the nations. The glory I had given you made your beauty perfect,’ announces the LORD and King.15‘ “ ‘But you trusted in your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You offered your body freely to anyone who passed by. In fact, you gave yourself to anyone who wanted you.16You used some of your clothes to make high places colourful. That is where people worshipped other gods. You were a prostitute there. You went to your lover and he took your beauty.17I had given you fine jewellery. It was made out of gold and silver. You used it to make for yourself statues of male gods. You worshipped those gods. You were not faithful to me.18You put your beautiful clothes on them. You offered my oil and incense to them.19You also offered them food. It was made out of olive oil, honey and the finest flour. I had given it to you to eat. You offered it as sweet-smelling incense to them. That is what you did,’ announces the LORD and King.20‘ “ ‘Then you took your sons and daughters who belonged to me. And you sacrificed them as food to other gods. Wasn’t it enough for you to be a prostitute?21You killed my children. You sacrificed them to other gods.22You did not remember the days when you were young. At that time you were completely naked. You were kicking around in your blood. But now you have done evil things. I hate them. You have worshipped other gods. You have not been faithful to me.23‘ “ ‘How terrible it will be for you!’ announces the LORD and King. ‘How terrible for you! You continued to sin against me.24Your people built up mounds for themselves in every market. They put little places of worship on them.25They set them up at every street corner. Jerusalem, you misused your beauty. You offered your body to anyone who passed by. You did it again and again.26You committed shameful acts with the people of Egypt. They were your neighbours who were ready to have sex with you. You offered yourself to them again and again. That made me very angry.27So I reached out my powerful hand against you. I made your territory smaller. I handed you over to your Philistine enemies. The people in their towns were shocked by your impure conduct.28You also committed shameful acts with the people of Assyria. Nothing ever seemed to satisfy you. You could never get enough.29Then you offered yourself to the people of Babylon. But that did not satisfy you either. There are many traders in the land of Babylon.30‘ “ ‘I am filled with great anger against you,’ announces the LORD and King. ‘Just look at all the things you are doing! You are acting like a prostitute who has no shame at all.31Your people built up mounds at every street corner. You put little places of worship on them in every market. But you did not really act like a prostitute. That’s because you refused to let your lovers pay you anything.32‘ “ ‘You unfaithful wife! You would rather be with strangers than with your own husband!33Every prostitute receives gifts. Instead, you give gifts to all your lovers. You offer them money to come to you from everywhere. You want them to sleep with you. You are not faithful to me.34As a prostitute, you are the opposite of others. No one runs after you to sleep with you. You are exactly the opposite. You pay them. They do not pay you.’ ” ’35You prostitute, listen to the LORD’s message.36The LORD and King says, ‘You poured out your desire on your lovers. You took off your clothing and slept with them. You did it again and again. You worshipped other gods. I hate them. You even sacrificed your children to them.37So I am going to gather together all the lovers you found pleasure with. They include those you loved and those you hated. I will gather them against you from everywhere. I will take your clothes off right in front of them. Then they will see you completely naked.38I will hand down my sentence against you. You will be punished like women who commit adultery and sacrifice their children to other gods. I am so angry with you. So I will sentence you to death for everything you have done.39Then I will hand you over to your lovers. They will tear down those mounds you built. They will destroy the little places of worship you put on them. They will take your clothes off. They will remove your fine jewellery. And they will leave you completely naked.40They will bring a crowd against you. The crowd will put you to death by throwing stones at you. And they will chop you to pieces with their swords.41They will burn down your houses and punish you. Many women will see it. I will not let you be a prostitute anymore. You will no longer pay your lovers.42Then my great anger against you will die down. My jealous anger will turn away from you. I will be calm. I will not be angry anymore.43‘You did not remember the days when you were young. The things you did made me very angry. So anything that happens to you will be your own fault,’ announces the LORD and King. ‘You added impure conduct to all the other evil things you did. I hate all those things.44‘All those who use proverbs will use this one about you. They will say, “Like mother, like daughter.”45You are a true daughter of your mother. She hated her husband and children. And you are a true sister of your sisters. They hated their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite. Your father was an Amorite.46Your older sister was Samaria. She lived north of you with her daughters. Your younger sister was Sodom. She lived south of you with her daughters.47You lived exactly the way they did. You copied their evil practices. I hate those practices. Everything you did was so sinful that you soon became even worse than they were.48Your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. And that is just as sure as I am alive,’ announces the LORD and King.49‘Here is the sin your sister Sodom committed. She and her daughters were proud. They ate too much. They were not concerned about others. They did not help those who were poor and in need.50They were very proud. They did many things that were evil in my eyes. I hated those things. So I got rid of Sodom and her daughters, just as you have seen.51Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You sinned even more than they did. I hate those sins. Compared to what you did, you made your sisters seem godly.52So you will be dishonoured. You have given your sisters an excuse for what they did. Your sins were far worse than theirs. In fact, your sisters appear to be more godly than you. So then, be ashamed. You will be dishonoured. You have made them appear to be godly.53‘I will not only give you back what you had before. I will also do the same thing for Sodom and her daughters. And I will do the same for Samaria and her daughters.54That will make you feel dishonoured. You will be ashamed of everything you have done. You have made them feel better because you sinned more and were punished more than they were.55Your sisters Sodom and Samaria and their daughters will return to what they were before. And you and your daughters will return to what you were before.56In the past you would not even mention your sister Sodom. You were proud at that time.57That was before your sin was uncovered. Now the daughters of Edom make fun of you. So do all her neighbours and the daughters of the Philistines. Everyone who lives around you hates you.58You will be punished for your impure conduct. I will also punish you for the other evil things you have done. I hate all those things,’ announces the LORD.59The LORD and King says, ‘I will punish you in keeping with what you have done. I sealed with a promise the covenant I made with you. You hated that promise. And you broke my covenant.60But I will remember my covenant with you. I made it with you when you were young. Now I will make a new covenant with you. It will last for ever.61Then you will remember how you have lived. You will be ashamed when I give you Samaria and Sodom. Samaria is your older sister. Sodom is your younger one. I will give them and their daughters to you as daughters. That can’t happen based on my old covenant with you.62So I will make my new covenant with you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.63I will pay for all the sins you have committed. Then you will remember what you have done. You will be ashamed of it. Because of your shame, you will never speak against me again,’ announces the LORD and King.
Ezekiel 16
King James Version
1Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,2Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,3And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.4And 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.5None 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.6And 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.7I 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.8Now 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 the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine.9Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.10I 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.11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.13Thus 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.14And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.15But 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.16And 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 .17Thou 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,18And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.19My 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 the Lord GOD.20Moreover 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,21That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?22And 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.23And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.25Thou 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.26Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.27Behold, 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.28Thou 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.29Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.30How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things , the work of an imperious whorish woman;31In 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;32But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!33They 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.34And 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.35Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD:36Thus saith the Lord 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;37Behold, 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.38And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.39And 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.40They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.41And 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.42So 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.43Because 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 the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.44Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.45Thou art thy mother' 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.46And 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.47Yet 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.48As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.49Behold, 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.50And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good .51Neither 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.52Thou 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.53When 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:54That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.55When 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.56For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,57Before 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.58Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.59For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.60Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.61Then 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.62And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:63That 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 the Lord GOD.
1Das Wort des HERRN erging an mich: (Eze 6:9; Eze 23:1; Ho 1:1)2Menschensohn, mach Jerusalem ihre Gräueltaten bekannt (Eze 20:4; Eze 22:2)3und sage: So spricht GOTT, der Herr, zu Jerusalem:
Deiner Herkunft und deiner Geburt nach bist du aus dem Land der Kanaaniter. Dein Vater ist ein Amoriter und deine Mutter eine Hetiterin. (Eze 16:45)4Bei deiner Geburt, am Tag, als du geboren wurdest, wurde deine Nabelschnur nicht abgeschnitten, du wurdest zur Reinigung nicht mit Wasser abgewaschen, nicht mit Salz eingerieben, nicht in Windeln gewickelt.[1]5Kein Auge zeigte dir Mitleid, um dir eines von diesen Dingen zu tun, um sich deiner zu erbarmen, sondern du wurdest auf das freie Feld hingeworfen, weil man dich verabscheute am Tag, an dem du geboren wurdest.6Da kam ich an dir vorüber und sah dich in deinem Blut strampeln; und ich sagte zu dir in deinem Blut: Bleib am Leben! Ich sagte zu dir: In deinem Blut, bleib am Leben!7Wie eine Blume auf dem Feld ließ ich dich wachsen. Und du bist herangewachsen, bist groß geworden und herrlich aufgeblüht: Deine Brüste wurden fest; dein Haar begann zu sprießen. Doch du warst nackt und bloß.8Da kam ich an dir vorüber und sah dich und siehe, deine Zeit war da, die Zeit der Liebe. Ich breitete den Saum meines Gewandes über dich und bedeckte deine Blöße. Ich leistete dir den Eid und ging mit dir einen Bund ein - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn - und du wurdest mein. (Ru 3:9)9Dann wusch ich dich mit Wasser, spülte dein Blut von dir ab und salbte dich mit Öl.10Ich kleidete dich in bunte Gewänder, zog dir Schuhe aus Tahasch-Leder an, band dir Byssus um und hüllte dich in Seide.11Ich schmückte dich mit Schmuck, legte dir Spangen an die Arme und eine Kette um den Hals.12Ich gab einen Ring an deine Nase, Ohrringe an deine Ohren und eine herrliche Krone auf dein Haupt.13Mit Gold und Silber konntest du dich schmücken, aus Byssus, Seide und buntem Gewebe war dein Gewand. Feinmehl, Honig und Öl aßest du. So wurdest du überaus schön, du wurdest tauglich zu königlicher Herrschaft.14Der Ruf deiner Schönheit drang zu den Völkern hinaus, denn sie war vollkommen durch meinen Schmuck, den ich dir anlegte - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn.15Doch dann hast du dich auf deine Schönheit verlassen, du hurtest in deinem Ruhm und hast mit deiner Hurerei jeden überschüttet, der vorbeiging, ihm wurde sie zuteil.16Du hast von deinen Gewändern genommen und dir bunte Kulthöhen gemacht und darauf Unzucht getrieben - Dinge, die nie vorgekommen sind und nie mehr geschehen dürfen.17Deine prächtigen Schmuckstücke aus meinem Gold und Silber, die ich dir geschenkt hatte, hast du genommen und hast dir daraus männliche Figuren gemacht, um mit ihnen zu huren. (Ex 32:2; Ho 2:10; Ho 8:4)18Deine bunten Gewänder hast du genommen und sie damit bekleidet. Mein Öl und mein Räucherwerk hast du vor sie hingestellt.19Mein Brot, das ich dir gab - Feinmehl, Öl und Honig, mit denen ich dich nährte -, das hast du ihnen als beruhigenden Duft dargebracht. Ja, so war es! - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn.20Du hast deine Söhne und Töchter, die du mir geboren hast, genommen und sie ihnen als Schlachtopfer zum Essen vorgesetzt. War dir dein unzüchtiges Treiben noch nicht genug? (De 12:31; 2Ki 16:3; Jer 7:31; Eze 20:26; Eze 23:37)21Musstest du auch noch meine Söhne schlachten, um sie ihnen darzubringen und für sie durch das Feuer gehen zu lassen?22Bei all deinen Gräueltaten und deiner Hurerei hast du der Zeit deiner Jugend nicht gedacht, in der du nackt und bloß warst und strampelnd in deinem Blute lagst.23Und es geschah nach all deinen schändlichen Taten - wehe, weh dir! Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn -,24da hast du dir auf jedem freien Platz einen Sockel erbaut und dir eine Kulthöhe errichtet. (De 12:2)25An jeder Straßenecke hast du deine Kulthöhe erbaut, du hast deine Schönheit abscheulich gemacht, hast deine Beine gespreizt für jeden, der vorbeiging, und hast deine Hurerei vermehrt.26Du hurtest mit den Ägyptern, deinen Nachbarn mit dem großen Glied. Du vermehrtest deine Hurerei, um mich zu beleidigen.27Und siehe, da streckte ich meine Hand gegen dich aus und nahm dir deinen Anteil weg. Ich lieferte dich der Gier deiner Feindinnen aus, den Philisterinnen; sogar sie schämten sich wegen deines schändlichen Wandels.28Dann hurtest du mit den Assyrern, weil du noch nicht genug hattest. Du hurtest mit ihnen, doch auch dann hattest du noch nicht genug. (Eze 23:12)29Du hast deine Hurerei ausgeweitet bis zum Land der Krämer, nach Chaldäa; doch auch damit hattest du noch nicht genug.30Wie warst du ohne Verstand - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn -, weil du all das getan hast, das Werk einer selbstherrlichen Hure.31Du hast dir an jeder Straßenecke deinen Sockel gebaut und auf jedem freien Platz deine Kulthöhe errichtet. Du warst keine gewöhnliche Hure; denn du hast es verschmäht, dich bezahlen zu lassen.32Die Ehebrecherin nimmt sich statt ihres Mannes fremde Männer.33Jeder Hure gibt man Lohn; du aber hast all deinen Liebhabern Geschenke gegeben und sie bestochen, damit sie von überall zu dir kamen, um mit dir Hurerei zu treiben.34Bei deiner Hurerei war es umgekehrt wie bei anderen Frauen: Dir hurte niemand nach; du hast selbst bezahlt, wurdest aber nicht bezahlt. So hast du es umgekehrt gemacht wie andere.35Darum, du Hure, höre das Wort des HERRN!36So spricht GOTT, der Herr: Weil du erregt wurdest und deine Blöße aufgedeckt wurde bei deiner Hurerei mit deinen Liebhabern und mit all deinen abscheulichen Götzen, und um des Blutes deiner Kinder willen, die du ihnen hingegeben hast,37siehe, deshalb will ich alle deine Liebhaber versammeln, denen du gefallen hast, alle, die du geliebt hast, und alle, die du verachtet hast. Und wenn ich sie von allen Seiten gegen dich versammelt habe, dann enthülle ich ihnen deine Blöße, damit sie deine Blöße unverhüllt sehen.38Ich spreche dir das Urteil nach den Rechtsentscheiden für Ehebrecherinnen und Mörderinnen und ich bringe über dich Blutvergießen, aus Grimm und Eifersucht. (Le 20:10)39Ich gebe dich in ihre Hand, damit sie deinen Sockel zerstören und deine Kulthöhen einreißen, damit sie dir deine Gewänder ausziehen, deine prächtigen Schmuckstücke wegnehmen und dich nackt und bloß daliegen lassen.40Sie berufen eine Volksversammlung gegen dich ein, steinigen dich und hauen dich mit ihren Schwertern in Stücke.41Sie werden deine Häuser mit Feuer niederbrennen und vor den Augen vieler Frauen das Urteil an dir vollstrecken. So mache ich deiner Hurerei ein Ende. Auch Hurenlohn wirst du nie mehr bezahlen. (2Ki 25:9)42Ich werde meinen Zorn an dir stillen und meine Eifersucht wird von dir ablassen. Ich werde Ruhe haben und mich nicht mehr ärgern.43Weil du der Tage deiner Jugend nicht gedacht und mich bei alledem gereizt hast, siehe, darum lasse ich, ja ich, deinen Wandel auf dich selbst zurückfallen - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn.
Hast du nicht zu all deinen Gräueln auch noch Schändliches verübt? (Eze 9:10)44Siehe, jeder, der ein Sprichwort auf dich anwenden will, der sagt: Wie die Mutter, so die Tochter!45Du bist die Tochter deiner Mutter, die vor ihrem Mann und ihren Söhnen Abscheu empfand. Du bist die Schwester deiner Schwestern, die vor ihren Männern und Söhnen Abscheu empfanden. Eure Mutter war eine Hetiterin und euer Vater ein Amoriter. (Eze 16:3)46Deine ältere Schwester ist Samaria mit ihren Töchtern, die links von dir wohnt; deine jüngere Schwester ist Sodom mit ihren Töchtern, die rechts von dir wohnt.47Du bist nicht nur ihrem Wandel gefolgt und hast nicht nur ihre Gräueltaten begangen. In nur kurzer Zeit hast du es noch schlimmer getrieben als sie auf allen deinen Wegen.48So wahr ich lebe - Spruch GOTTES des Herrn: Deine Schwester Sodom, sie und ihre Töchter haben es nicht so getrieben, wie du und deine Töchter es trieben.49Siehe, dies war die Schuld deiner Schwester Sodom: In Hochmut, Überfluss an Brot und in sorgloser Ruhe lebte sie mit ihren Töchtern, ohne die Hand des Elenden und Armen zu stärken. (Ge 18:20; Ge 19:24)50Sie wurden hochmütig und begingen Gräuel vor meinen Augen. So habe ich sie verstoßen, als ich sie sah.51Samaria hat nicht die Hälfte deiner Sünden begangen. Du hast mehr Gräueltaten verübt als sie und du lässt deine Schwestern gerecht erscheinen durch all deine Gräueltaten, die du begangen hast. (Jer 3:11)52Du, ja, trag du deine Schande, die du deinen Schwestern durch deine Sünden Genugtuung verschaffst! Weil du abscheulicher als sie gehandelt hast, erscheinen sie gerechter als du. Du, ja, schäme du dich und trag deine Schande, da du deine Schwestern gerecht erscheinen lässt!53Aber ich werde ihr Schicksal wenden, das Schicksal Sodoms und ihrer Töchter, das Schicksal Samarias und ihrer Töchter und das Schicksal deiner Gefangenen in ihrer Mitte,54damit du deine Schande tragen kannst und dich schämen musst über all das, was du getan und wodurch du sie getröstet hast.55Deine Schwester Sodom und ihre Töchter werden in ihren früheren Zustand zurückkehren, Samaria und ihre Töchter werden in ihren früheren Zustand zurückkehren. Du aber und deine Töchter, auch ihr werdet in euren früheren Zustand zurückkehren.56Diente dir nicht deine Schwester Sodom als abschreckendes Beispiel in deinem Mund am Tage deines Hochmuts,57bevor deine Bosheit wie jetzt offenbar wurde? Ein Hohn bist du den Aramäerinnen und allen rings um sie her, den Philisterinnen, die dich von ringsum verachten.58Deine Schandtat und deine Gräueltaten, du selbst hast sie zu tragen - Spruch des HERRN.59Denn so spricht GOTT, der Herr: Ich werde an dir handeln, wie du gehandelt hast; du hast den Eid missachtet und den Bund gebrochen.60Ich aber, ich werde meines Bundes mit dir aus den Tagen deiner Jugend gedenken, und ich werde einen ewigen Bund für dich aufrichten. (Le 26:45; Jer 31:31; Eze 36:22; Eze 37:26; Ho 2:17)61Du wirst deiner Wege gedenken und dich schämen, wenn du deine Schwestern aufnimmst, deine älteren mitsamt deinen jüngeren. Und ich gebe sie dir zu Töchtern, aber nicht deines Bundes wegen.[2] (Eze 20:43; Eze 36:31)62Ich selbst richte meinen Bund mit dir auf, damit du erkennst, dass ich der HERR bin.63So sollst du gedenken, sollst dich schämen und wirst vor Scham den Mund nicht mehr öffnen können, weil ich dir Versöhnung gewähre für alles, was du getan hast - Spruch GOTTES, des Herrn. (Eze 36:31)