Ezekiel 16:35-63

Ezekiel 16:35-63

[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  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  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,  of Sodom  and her daughters,  and the captivity  of Samaria  and her daughters,  then will I bring again the captivity  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  [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  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.