1 Again the word of the Lord came to me: 2 bSee ch. 2:1 “Son of man,cch. 22:2 make known to Jerusalem her abominations, 3 and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the Canaanites; your father was andver. 45; Gen. 15:16; Deut. 7:1 Amorite and your mother aever. 45; Deut. 7:1; Judg. 1:26 Hittite. 4 And as for your birth,f[Hos. 2:3] on the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you,g[Deut. 32:10] but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred,f[See ver. 4 above] on the day that you were born.
6 And when I passed by you and saw you wallowinghver. 22 in your blood, I said to youhver. 22 in your blood, ‘Live! ’ I said to youhver. 22 in your blood, ‘Live! ’ 7 i[Ex. 1:7] I made you flourish like a plant of the field. And you grew up and became tallj[ver. 11, 13] and arrived at full adornment. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yetkver. 22, 39; ch. 23:29 you were naked and bare.
8 When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, andlRuth 3:9; [Jer. 2:2] I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to youm[Ex. 24:7, 8] and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God,nSee Ex. 19:5 and you became mine. 9 Then I bathed you with water and washed off your blood from you andoRuth 3:3; [Ps. 23:5] anointed you with oil. 10 pver. 13, 18; [ch. 26:16; 27:7, 16; Ex. 26:36] I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.1Or with rich fabric 11 q[ch. 23:40] And I adorned you with ornaments andr[ch. 23:42; Gen. 24:22, 30, 47] put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. 12 And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth.sDeut. 32:13, 14 You ate fine flour and honey and oil.t[ver. 15, 25; Ps. 48:2] You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. 14 AnduLam. 2:15; [ch. 23:10] your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.
15 v[ver. 13] But you trusted in your beautywch. 23:3, 8, 11, 12; Lev. 17:7; Isa. 1:21; 57:8; Jer. 2:20; 3:2, 6, 20; Hos. 1:2 and played the whore1Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28 because of your renownx[ver. 25] and lavished your whorings2Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36 on any passerby; your beauty became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be. 17 You also tooky[ver. 11] your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, andz[ch. 7:20; 23:14] made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. 18 And you took your embroidered garments to cover them,ach. 23:41 and set my oil and my incense before them. 19 b[Hos. 2:8] Also my bread that I gave you—s[See ver. 13 above] I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them forcSee ch. 6:13 a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. 20 d[ver. 21, 36] And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, andech. 20:26, 31; 23:37 these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not rememberfver. 43, 60 the days of your youth,gver. 6, 7 when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
23 And after all your wickedness (woe, woe to you! declares the Lord God ), 24 you built yourselfhver. 39 a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every streetiver. 31; [Isa. 57:7; Jer. 2:20; 3:2] you built your lofty place and madej[ver. 14] your beauty an abomination,k[ver. 15] offering yourself to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 w[See ver. 15 above] You also played the whorelch. 20:7, 8; 23:19-21 with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors,mch. 23:14, 19 multiplying your whoring,nJer. 7:18, 19 to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against youo[ch. 5:10, 11] and diminished your allotted portionp[ver. 37] and delivered you to the greed of your enemies,qver. 57; [2 Sam. 1:20] the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 w[See ver. 15 above] You played the whore alsorch. 23:12; Jer. 2:18, 36; See 2 Kgs. 16:7-18; 2 Chr. 28:16-21 with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading landtSee ch. 23:14-16 of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
30 How lovesick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute,u[ver. 33, 34] because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes,v[ver. 41; Hos. 8:9] but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, andv[See ver. 33 above] you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
35 Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord : 36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols,w[ver. 20, 21, 38] and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them, 37 therefore, behold,xHos. 8:10 I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved andy[ver. 27; ch. 23:28] all those you hated.zch. 23:22 I will gather them against you from every sideach. 23:10, 29; Hos. 2:10; Rev. 17:16; [ver. 39] and will uncover your nakedness to them, thatbLam. 1:8 they may see all your nakedness. 38 cch. 21:30 And I will judge youdch. 23:45; Lev. 20:10; Deut. 22:22 as women who commit adultery andeGen. 9:6; [ch. 18:10; 23:37, 45] shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy. 39 And I will give you into their hands, and they shall throw down yourfver. 24 vaulted chamber and break downgver. 25 your lofty places.hch. 23:26; [Hos. 2:3] They shall strip you of your clothes and takeiver. 11, 12 your beautiful jewels and leave youjver. 7 naked and bare. 40 kch. 23:46 They shall bring up a crowd against you,lch. 23:47; [Josh. 7:24, 25] and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. 41 l[See ver. 40 above] And they shallm2 Kgs. 25:9; Jer. 39:8; 52:13 burn your houses andnSee ch. 5:8 execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women.och. 23:27, 48 I will make you stop playing the whore, andp[ver. 33, 34] you shall also give payment no more. 42 qSee ch. 5:13 So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. 43 Because you have not rememberedrver. 22, 60 the days of your youth, but have enraged me with all these things, therefore, behold,sSee ch. 7:4 I have returned your deeds upon your head, declares the Lord God. Have you nottch. 22:9 committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?
44 Behold, everyoneu[ch. 12:22; 18:2, 3] who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter. ’ 45 You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister ofv[ver. 46] your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children.wSee ver. 3 Your mother was a Hittite andwSee ver. 3 your father an Amorite. 46 Andxver. 51, 53, 55; [ch. 23:4, 33] your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; andyver. 48, 49, 53, 55; [Isa. 1:10] your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. 47 zch. 5:7 Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little timeaver. 48, 51, 52; ch. 5:6; [2 Kgs. 21:9; 2 Chr. 33:9; Jer. 2:10, 11] you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. 48 bch. 5:11; 14:16, 18, 20; 17:16, 19; 18:3; 20:3, 33; Isa. 49:18; Zeph. 2:9 As I live, declares the Lord God, your sistercver. 47; [Matt. 10:15; 11:24] Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride,d[Gen. 13:10] excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty andeSee Gen. 13:13 did an abomination before me. SofSee Gen. 19:24 I removed them, when I saw it. 51 gver. 46, 47 Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, andhver. 52; Jer. 3:11 have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. 52 iSee ch. 32:24 Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
53 j[ch. 29:14; 39:25; Zeph. 2:7; 3:20] I will restore their fortunes, both the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and I will restore your own fortunes in their midst, 54 that you may bear your disgracekver. 61 and be ashamed of all that you have done,l[ch. 14:22, 23] becoming a consolation to them. 55 As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former state,j[See ver. 53 above] and Samaria and her daughters shall returnmch. 36:11 to their former state,j[See ver. 53 above] and you and your daughters shall returnmch. 36:11 to your former state. 56 Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouthnSee Isa. 2:6-11 in the day of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered? Now you have becomeoSee 2 Kgs. 16:5-7; Isa. 7:1, 2 an object of reproach for the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and forpver. 27; [2 Chr. 28:18] the daughters of the Philistines,qch. 28:24, 26 those all around who despise you. 58 r[ch. 14:10; 23:35, 49] You bear the penalty of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the Lord.
59 For thus says the Lord God : I will deal with you as you have done, yous[ch. 17:15, 16, 18, 19] who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, 60 yettSee Lev. 26:42 I will remember my covenant with youuver. 8, 22, 43 in the days of your youth,vJer. 32:40; 50:5 and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant. 61 wSee ch. 6:9 Then you will remember your waysxver. 54 and be ashamed when you takey[ver. 45, 46] your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to youz[Isa. 54:1] as daughters, but not on account of1Or not apart from the covenant with you. 62 I will establish my covenant with you,aSee ch. 6:7 and you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 that you may remember and be confounded, andb[Rom. 3:19] never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God. ”