1 Then the word of the Loʀᴅ came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, AIs 58:1; Ezek 20:4; 22:2make known to Jerusalem her abominations 3 and say, ‘Thus says the Lord 1Heb YHWH, usually rendered Loʀᴅ, and so throughout the chGoᴅ to Jerusalem, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite, your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4  “As for your birth, AHos 2:3on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths. 5  “No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the 1Lit surfaceADeut 32:10open field, 2Lit in the loathing of your soulfor you were abhorred on the day you were born.

6 “When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ 7  “I AEx 1:7; Deut 1:10made you 1Lit a myriadnumerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

8 “Then I passed by you and saw you, and behold, 1Lit your time wasyou were at the time for love; so I ARuth 3:9; Jer 2:2spread My skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also BGen 22:16-18swore to you and CEx 24:7, 8entered into a covenant with you so that you DEx 19:5; Ezek 20:5; Hos 2:19, 20became Mine,” declares the Lord Goᴅ. 9 “Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and ARuth 3:3anointed you with oil. 10  “I also clothed you with AEx 26:36; Ezek 16:13, 18; 26:16; 27:7, 16embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. 11  “I adorned you with ornaments, put AGen 24:22, 47; Is 3:19; Ezek 23:42bracelets on your hands and a BGen 41:42; Prov 1:9necklace around your neck. 12  “I also put a AGen 24:47; Is 3:21ring in your nostril, earrings in your ears and a BIs 28:5; Jer 13:18; Ezek 16:14beautiful crown on your head. 13  “Thus you were adorned with APs 45:13, 14; Ezek 16:17gold and silver, and your dress was of fine linen, silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour, honey and oil; so you were exceedingly beautiful and advanced to B1 Sam 10:1; 1 Kin 4:21royalty. 14  “Then your A1 Kin 10:1, 24fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was BPs 50:2; Lam 2:15perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord Goᴅ.

15 “But you AEzek 16:25; 27:3trusted in your beauty and BIs 57:8; Jer 2:20played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by 1Lit to whom it might bewho might be willing. 16  “You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, 1Lit things which had not happened nor will it bewhich should never come about nor happen. 17  “You also took your beautiful 1Lit articles of beautyAEzek 16:11, 12jewels made of My gold and of My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images that you might play the harlot with them. 18  “Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them. 19  “Also AHos 2:8My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, 1Lit and you...offer ityou would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord Goᴅ. 20 “Moreover, you took your sons and daughters whom you had borne to AEx 13:2, 12; Deut 29:11, 12Me and BPs 106:37, 38; Jer 7:31; Ezek 20:31; 23:37sacrificed them to 1Lit themidols to be devoured. Were your harlotries so small a matter? 21  “You slaughtered AEx 13:2My children and offered them up to 1Lit themidols by B2 Kin 17:17; Jer 19:5causing them to pass through the fire. 22  “Besides all your abominations and harlotries you did not remember the days of AJer 2:2your youth, when you were naked and bare and squirming in your blood.

23 “Then it came about after all your wickedness (‘Woe, woe to you!’ declares the Lord Goᴅ), 24 that you built yourself a AJer 11:13; Ezek 16:31, 39; 20:28, 29shrine and made yourself a BPs 78:58; Is 57:7high place in every square. 25  “You built yourself a high place at the top of AProv 9:14every street and made your beauty abominable, and you spread your legs to every passer-by to multiply your harlotry. 26  “You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your 1Lit great of fleshlustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to AJer 7:18, 19; Ezek 8:17make Me angry. 27  “Behold now, I have stretched out My hand against you and diminished your rations. And I delivered you up to the desire of those who hate you, the AIs 9:12; Ezek 16:57daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of your lewd conduct. 28  “Moreover, you played the harlot with the A2 Kin 16:7, 10-18; 2 Chr 28:16, 20-23; Jer 2:18, 36; Ezek 23:12; Hos 10:6Assyrians because you were not satisfied; you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29  “You also multiplied your harlotry with the land of merchants, Chaldea, yet even with this you were not satisfied.” ’ ”

30 “How AProv 9:13; Is 1:3; Jer 4:22languishing is your heart,” declares the Lord Goᴅ, “while you do all these things, the actions of a 1Lit domineeringBIs 3:9; Jer 3:3bold-faced harlot. 31  “When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in AIs 52:3disdaining money, you were not like a harlot. 32  “You adulteress wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband! 33  “1Lit TheyMen give gifts to all harlots, but you AIs 57:9; Ezek 16:41; Hos 8:9, 10give your gifts to all your lovers to bribe them to come to you from every direction for your harlotries. 34  “Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot 1Lit after youas you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”

35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Loʀᴅ. 36 Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable AJer 19:5; Ezek 20:31; 23:37idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to 1Lit themidols, 37 therefore, behold, I will AJer 13:22, 26; Ezek 23:9, 22; Hos 2:3, 10; Nah 3:5, 6gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, even all those whom you loved and all those whom you BEzek 23:17, 28hated. So I will gather them against you from every direction and CIs 47:3expose your nakedness to them that they may see all your nakedness. 38  “Thus I will AEzek 23:45judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of BPs 79:3, 5; Jer 18:21; Ezek 23:25; Zeph 1:17wrath and jealousy. 39  “I will also give you into 1Lit their hands, and theythe hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, AEzek 23:26; Hos 2:3strip you of your clothing, take away your 2Lit articles of beautyjewels, and will leave you naked and bare. 40  “They will 1Lit bring up an assemblyincite a AEzek 23:47; Hab 1:6-10crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41  “They will A2 Kin 25:9; Jer 39:8; 52:13burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will BEzek 23:48stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay 1Lit a harlot’s hireyour lovers. 42  “So I A2 Sam 24:25; Ezek 5:13; 21:17; Zech 6:8will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry BIs 40:1, 2; 54:9, 10; Ezek 39:29no more. 43  “Because you have APs 78:42; 106:13; Ezek 16:22not remembered the days of your youth but 1So with ancient versions; Heb are angry againsthave BIs 63:10; Ezek 6:9enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will CEzek 11:21; 22:31bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord Goᴅ, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

44 “Behold, everyone who quotes A1 Sam 24:13; Ezek 12:22, 23; 18:2, 3proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘1Lit HerLike mother, 1Lit Herlike daughter.’ 45  “You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and children. You are also the AEzek 23:2sister of your sisters, who BIs 1:4; Ezek 23:37-39; Zech 11:8loathed their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46  “Now your AJer 3:8-11; Ezek 23:4older sister is Samaria, who lives 1Lit on your leftnorth of you with her 2I.e. environs; so through v 55daughters; and your younger sister, who lives 3Lit from your rightsouth of you, is BGen 13:10-13; 18:20; Ezek 16:48, 49, 53-56, 61Sodom with her 2I.e. environs; so through v 55daughters. 47  “Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were A1 Kin 16:31too little, you acted B2 Kin 21:9; Ezek 5:6; 16:48, 51more corruptly in all your conduct than they. 48  “As I live,” declares the Lord Goᴅ, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have AMatt 10:15; 11:23, 24not done as you and your daughters have done. 49  “Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had AGen 19:9; Ps 138:6; Is 3:9; Ezek 28:2, 9, 17arrogance, BGen 13:10; Is 22:13; Amos 6:4-6abundant food and CLuke 12:16-20; 16:19careless ease, but she did not 1Lit grasp the hand ofhelp the DEzek 18:7, 12, 16poor and needy. 50  “Thus they were haughty and committed AGen 13:13; 18:20; 19:5abominations before Me. Therefore I BGen 19:24, 25removed them 1Many ancient mss and versions read as you have seenwhen I saw it. 51  “Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half of your sins, for you have multiplied your abominations more than they. Thus you have made your sisters appear AJer 3:8-11righteous by all your abominations which you have committed. 52  “Also bear your disgrace in that you have 1Lit mediated formade judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted AEzek 16:47, 48, 51more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

53 “Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and 1Lit in their midstalong with them 2Lit the captivity of your captivityyour own captivity, 54 in order that you may bear your humiliation and feel AJer 2:26ashamed for all that you have done when you become BEzek 14:22, 23a consolation to them. 55  “Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, 1Heb includes will return...state after Sodom alsowill return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state. 56  “As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride, 57 before your AEzek 16:36, 37wickedness was uncovered, 1Lit as at the time ofso now you have become the B2 Kin 16:5-7; 2 Chr 28:5, 6, 18-23; Ezek 5:14, 15; 22:4reproach of the daughters of 2So with many mss and one version; M.T. AramEdom and of all who are around her, of the daughters of the Philistines—those surrounding you who despise you. 58  “You have AEzek 23:49borne the penalty of your lewdness and abominations,” the Loʀᴅ declares. 59 For thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have AIs 24:5; Ezek 17:19despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

60 “Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an AIs 55:3; Jer 32:38-41; Ezek 37:26everlasting covenant with you. 61  “Then you will AJer 50:4, 5; Ezek 6:9remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both your older and your younger; and I will give them to you as daughters, but not because of your covenant. 62  “Thus I will AEzek 20:37; 34:25; 37:26establish My covenant with you, and you shall BJer 24:7; Ezek 20:43, 44know that I am the Loʀᴅ, 63 so that you may AEzek 36:31, 32; Dan 9:7, 8remember and be ashamed and BPs 39:9; Rom 3:19never open your mouth anymore because of your humiliation, when I have CPs 65:3; 78:38; 79:9forgiven you for all that you have done,” the Lord Goᴅ declares.