These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Ezekiel 16
Tanakh 63 verses
- 1 Again the of came unto me, saying:
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Son of man, cause to her abominations,
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- 3 and say: Thus saith unto : Thine origin and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
- 4 And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
- 5 No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field in the loathsomeness of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
- 6 And when I passed by thee, and saw thee wallowing in thy , I said unto thee: In thy , live; yea, I said unto thee: In thy , live;
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I cause thee to increase, even as the growth of the field. And thou didst increase and grow up, and thou camest to excellent beauty: thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.
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Exodus 1:7 Deuteronomy 1:10 Ezekiel 16:22 Song of Solomon 4:5 Psalm 148:14 Psalm 135:4 Exodus 3:22 Revelation 3:17-18 Isaiah 62:3 Psalm 149:2-4 Acts 7:17 Isaiah 61:10 Hosea 2:9-10 Genesis 22:17 Nehemiah 9:18-25 Deuteronomy 32:10-14 Job 1:21 Ezekiel 16:16 Deuteronomy 33:26-29 Deuteronomy 4:8 Psalm 147:20 Exodus 12:37 Hosea 2:3 Ezekiel 16:10-13 - 8 Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and, behold, thy time was the time of , I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; yea, I swore unto thee, and entered into a with thee, saith , and thou becamest Mine.
- 9 Then washed I thee with water; yea, I cleansed away thy from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
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I clothed thee also with richly woven work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I wound fine linen about thy head, and covered thee with silk.
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Ezekiel 16:18 Ezekiel 16:13 Exodus 26:36 Ezekiel 27:16 Isaiah 61:10 Ezekiel 27:7 Isaiah 61:3 Genesis 41:42 Exodus 28:5 Exodus 39:27-28 Ezekiel 16:7 Revelation 19:8 Exodus 26:14 Revelation 7:9-14 Proverbs 31:22 Luke 15:22 Revelation 21:2 Exodus 25:5 Ezekiel 26:16 1 Peter 3:3-4 Psalm 45:13-14 Revelation 18:12 -
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I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
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Genesis 24:22 Genesis 24:47 Isaiah 3:19 Genesis 41:42 Ezekiel 23:42 Proverbs 1:9 Ezekiel 23:40 Hosea 2:13 Genesis 24:53 Daniel 5:29 Isaiah 28:5 Revelation 4:10 Song of Solomon 1:10 Exodus 32:2 Esther 2:17 Leviticus 8:9 Revelation 2:10 Judges 8:24 Song of Solomon 4:9 Isaiah 3:21 Numbers 31:50 Genesis 35:4 Proverbs 25:12 Daniel 5:7 Daniel 5:16 Revelation 4:4 Lamentations 5:16 Proverbs 4:9 Exodus 35:22 Job 42:11 -
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And I put a ring upon thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful upon thy head.
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- 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and richly woven work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou didst wax exceeding beautiful, and thou wast meet for royal estate.
- 14 And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was , through My splendour which I had put upon thee, saith .
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But thou didst trust in thy beauty and play the harlot because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy harlotries on every one that passed by; his it was.
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Ezekiel 16:25 Jeremiah 2:20 Isaiah 57:8 Jeremiah 7:4 Ezekiel 23:3 Hosea 1:2 Isaiah 1:21 Ezekiel 23:8 Deuteronomy 32:15 Ezekiel 16:36-37 2 Kings 17:7 2 Kings 21:3 Judges 2:12 Ezekiel 27:3 Exodus 32:6-35 Hosea 4:10 Matthew 3:9 Isaiah 48:1 Ezekiel 33:13 Judges 10:6 Numbers 25:1-2 1 Kings 12:28 Psalm 106:35 Judges 3:6 1 Kings 11:5 Ezekiel 20:8 Ezekiel 23:11-21 Micah 3:11 Jeremiah 3:1 Revelation 17:5 Zephaniah 3:11 -
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And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot upon them; the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
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- 17 Thou didst also take thy fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given thee, and madest for thee images of men, and didst play the harlot with them;
- 18 and thou didst take thy richly woven garments and cover them, and didst set Mine oil and Mine incense before them.
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My bread also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savour, and thus it was; saith .
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- 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. Were thy harlotries a small matter,
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that thou hast slain My children, and delivered them up, in setting them apart unto them?
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And in all thine abominations and thy harlotries thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast wallowing in thy .
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- 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness—woe, woe unto thee! saith —
- 24 that thou hast built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street.
- 25 Thou hast built thy lofty place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy harlotries.
- 26 Thou hast also played the harlot with the Egyptians, thy neighbours, great of ; and hast multiplied thy harlotry, to provoke Me.
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Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
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- 28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, without having enough; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou wast not satisfied.
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Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry with the land of traffic, even with Chaldea; and yet thou didst not have enough herewith.
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- 30 How weak is thy , saith , seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot;
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in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot that enhanceth her hire.
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- 32 Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband—
- 33 to all harlots gifts are given; but thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hast bribed them to come unto thee from every side in thy harlotries.
- 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women, in that thou didst solicit to harlotry, and wast not solicited; and in that thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, thus thou art contrary.
- 35 Wherefore, O harlot, the of !
- 36 Thus saith : Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness uncovered through thy harlotries with thy lovers; and because of all the idols of thy abominations, and for the of thy children, that thou didst give unto them;
- 37 therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, unto whom thou hast been pleasant, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee from every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.
- 38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed are judged; and I will bring upon thee the of fury and jealousy.
- 39 I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.
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They shall also bring up an against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
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And they shall burn thy 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 shalt also give no hire any more.
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So will I satisfy My fury upon thee, and My jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
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- 43 Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted Me in all these things; lo, therefore I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith ; or hast thou not committed this lewdness above all thine abominations?
- 44 Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.
- 45 Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that loatheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children; your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
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And thine elder sister is , that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
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Ezekiel 23:4 Ezekiel 16:61 Ezekiel 16:51 Jeremiah 3:8-11 Ezekiel 16:48-49 Genesis 13:10-13 Ezekiel 16:53-56 Ezekiel 23:11 Deuteronomy 29:23 Revelation 11:8 Ezekiel 16:27 Ezekiel 23:31-33 Ezekiel 26:6 Deuteronomy 32:32 Lamentations 4:6 Jude 1:7 Genesis 19:29 Jeremiah 23:14 Genesis 18:20-33 Genesis 19:24-25 Hosea 11:8 Micah 1:5 2 Peter 2:6 Isaiah 1:9-10 Luke 17:28-30 Genesis 14:8 - 47 Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but in a very little while thou didst deal more corruptly than they in all thy ways.
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As I live, saith , Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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Genesis 13:10 Psalm 138:6 Ezekiel 18:16 Amos 5:11-12 Ezekiel 28:2 Ezekiel 18:12 Isaiah 3:9 Ezekiel 28:9 Luke 12:16-20 Ezekiel 28:17 Genesis 19:9 Daniel 4:30 Luke 21:34 Obadiah 1:3 Isaiah 16:6 Proverbs 21:13 Daniel 4:37 Proverbs 16:5 Daniel 5:23 Proverbs 21:4 Isaiah 3:14-15 1 Peter 5:5 Isaiah 22:13-14 Deuteronomy 32:15 Amos 8:4-6 Ezekiel 18:7 Micah 3:2-4 Ezekiel 29:3 Luke 17:28 Proverbs 16:18 Genesis 18:20 Luke 16:19-21 Proverbs 18:12 Amos 6:3-6 -
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And they were haughty, and committed abomination before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
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Neither hath committed even half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters by all thine abominations which thou hast done.
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Thou also, bear thine own shame, in that thou hast given judgment for thy sisters; through thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous than thou; yea, be thou also confounded, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
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- 53 And I will turn their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of and her daughters, and the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them;
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that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
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And thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and and her daughters shall return to their former estate, and thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.
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For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride;
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- 57 before thy wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the taunt of the daughters of Aram, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, that have thee in disdain round about.
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Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith .
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- 59 For thus saith : I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the .
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Nevertheless I will My with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an .
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Then shalt thou thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder sisters and thy younger; and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not because of thy .
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Galatians 4:26-31 Hebrews 8:13 Romans 11:11 Jeremiah 31:18-20 Romans 15:16 Isaiah 66:7-12 Ezekiel 20:43 Ephesians 3:6 Jeremiah 50:4-5 Isaiah 60:4 John 15:16 Isaiah 11:9-10 Jeremiah 31:31-40 Isaiah 2:2-5 Ephesians 2:12-14 Ezekiel 6:9 Psalm 119:59 Hosea 1:9-11 Ezekiel 16:63 Isaiah 49:18-23 Song of Solomon 8:8-9 Romans 15:8-9 Isaiah 54:1-2 Job 42:5-6 Ezekiel 16:53-55 Ezekiel 36:31-32 -
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And I will establish My with thee, and thou shalt that I am ;
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- 63 that thou mayest , and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy shame; when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, saith .’