Ezekiel 16:8-31

Ezekiel 16:8-31

[8] Now when I passed  by thee, and looked  upon thee, behold, thy 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  [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,  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;