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1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, say­ing, 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abom­i­na­tions, 3 And 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 the Lord GOD, and thou be­camest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with wa­ter; yea, I through­ly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anoint­ed thee with oil. 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. 11 I decked thee also with or­na­ments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. 12 And I put a jew­el on thy fore­head, and ear­rings in thine ears, and a beau­ti­ful crown upon thine head. 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. 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 the Lord GOD. 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 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. 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, 18 And took­est thy broi­dered gar­ments, and cov­eredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine in­cense be­fore them. 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 the Lord GOD. 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, 21 That thou hast slain my chil­dren, and de­liv­ered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? 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. 23 And it came to pass af­ter all thy wicked­ness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an em­i­nent place, and hast made thee an high place in ev­ery street. 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. 26 Thou hast also com­mit­ted for­ni­ca­tion with the Egyp­tians thy neigh­bours, great of flesh; and hast in­creased thy whore­doms, to pro­voke me to anger. 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. 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. 29 Thou hast more­over mul­ti­plied thy for­ni­ca­tion in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not sat­is­fied here­with. 30 How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, see­ing thou doest all these things, the work of an im­pe­ri­ous who­r­ish wom­an; 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; 32 But as a wife that com­mit­teth adul­tery, which taketh strangers in­stead of her hus­band! 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. 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. 35 Where­fore, O har­lot, hear the word of the LORD: 36 Thus 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; 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. 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. 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. 40 They shall also bring up a com­pa­ny against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. 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. 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. 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 the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not com­mit this lewd­ness above all thine abom­i­na­tions. 44 Be­hold, ev­ery one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, say­ing, As is the moth­er, ­so is her daugh­ter. 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. 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. 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. 48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sis­ter hath not done, she nor her daugh­ters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daugh­ters. 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. 50 And they were haughty, and com­mit­ted abom­i­na­tion be­fore me: there­fore I took them away as I saw good. 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 56 For thy sis­ter Sodom was not men­tioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, 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. 58 Thou hast borne thy lewd­ness and thine abom­i­na­tions, saith the LORD. 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast de­spised the oath in break­ing the covenant. 60 Nev­er­the­less I will re­mem­ber my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will es­tab­lish unto thee an ev­er­last­ing covenant. 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. 62 And I will es­tab­lish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: 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 the Lord GOD.