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| 1Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, | 1The word of the LORD came to me: |
| 2“Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, | 2"Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her abominable practices |
| 3and say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: “Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. | 3and say, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. |
| 4As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. | 4As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. |
| 5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born. | 5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born. |
| 6“And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you in your blood, ‘Live!’ | 6"'I passed by you and saw you kicking around helplessly in your blood. I said to you as you lay there in your blood, "Live!" I said to you as you lay there in your blood, "Live!" |
| 7I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare. | 7I made you plentiful like sprouts in a field; you grew tall and came of age so that you could wear jewelry. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, but you were still naked and bare. |
| 8“When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine,” says the Lord GOD. | 8"'Then I passed by you and watched you, noticing that you had reached the age for love. I spread my cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I swore a solemn oath to you and entered into a marriage covenant with you, declares the sovereign LORD, and you became mine. |
| 9“Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil. | 9"'Then I bathed you in water, washed the blood off you, and anointed you with fragrant oil. |
| 10I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk. | 10I dressed you in embroidered clothing and put fine leather sandals on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk. |
| 11I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your wrists, and a chain on your neck. | 11I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck. |
| 12And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. | 12I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head. |
| 13Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and succeeded to royalty. | 13You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidery. You ate the finest flour, honey, and olive oil. You became extremely beautiful and attained the position of royalty. |
| 14Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” says the Lord GOD. | 14Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign LORD. |
| 15“But you trusted in your own beauty, played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. | 15"'But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his. |
| 16You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be. | 16You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his. |
| 17You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. | 17You also took your beautiful jewelry, made of my gold and my silver I had given to you, and made for yourself male images and engaged in prostitution with them. |
| 18You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. | 18You took your embroidered clothing and used it to cover them; you offered my olive oil and my incense to them. |
| 19Also My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord GOD. | 19As for my food that I gave you--the fine flour, olive oil, and honey I fed you--you placed it before them as a soothing aroma. That is exactly what happened, declares the sovereign LORD. |
| 20“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter, | 20"'You took your sons and your daughters whom you bore to me and you sacrificed them as food for the idols to eat. As if your prostitution not enough, |
| 21that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the fire? | 21you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. |
| 22And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood. | 22And with all your abominable practices and prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, kicking around in your blood. |
| 23“Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord GOD— | 23"'After all of your evil--"Woe! Woe to you!" declares the sovereign LORD-- |
| 24that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street. | 24you built yourself a chamber and put up a pavilion in every public square. |
| 25You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. | 25At the head of every street you erected your pavilion and you disgraced your beauty when you spread your legs to every passerby and multiplied your promiscuity. |
| 26You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger. | 26You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger. |
| 27“Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. | 27So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct. |
| 28You also played the harlot with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. | 28You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians because your sexual desires were insatiable; you prostituted yourself with them and yet you were still not satisfied. |
| 29Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied. | 29Then you multiplied your promiscuity to the land of merchants, Babylonia, but you were not satisfied there either. |
| 30“How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord GOD, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot. | 30"'How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign LORD, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute. |
| 31“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment. | 31When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment. |
| 32You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. | 32"'Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband! |
| 33Men make payment to all harlots, but you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. | 33All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors! |
| 34You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.” | 34You were different from other prostitutes because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite! |
| 35‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD! | 35"'Therefore O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD: |
| 36Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them, | 36This is what the sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them, |
| 37surely, therefore, I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. | 37therefore, take note: I am about to gather all your lovers whom you enjoyed, both all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around, and I will expose your nakedness to them, and they will see all your nakedness. |
| 38And I will judge you as women who break wedlock or shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy. | 38I will punish you as an adulteress and murderer deserves. I will avenge your bloody deeds with furious rage. |
| 39I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare. | 39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare. |
| 40“They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords. | 40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords. |
| 41They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers. | 41They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients. |
| 42So I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more. | 42I will exhaust my rage on you, and then my fury will turn from you. I will calm down and no longer be angry. |
| 43Because you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely I will also recompense your deeds on your own head,” says the Lord GOD. “And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations. | 43"'Because you did not remember the days of your youth and have enraged me with all these deeds, I hereby repay you for what you have done, declares the sovereign LORD. Have you not engaged in prostitution on top of all your other abominable practices? |
| 44“Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’ | 44"'Observe--everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter." |
| 45You are your mother’s daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. | 45You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. |
| 46“Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. | 46Your older sister was Samaria, who lived north of you with her daughters, and your younger sister, who lived south of you, was Sodom with her daughters. |
| 47You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways. | 47Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were! |
| 48“As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. | 48As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never behaved as wickedly as you and your daughters have behaved. |
| 49Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. | 49"'See here--this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had majesty, abundance of food, and enjoyed carefree ease, but they did not help the poor and needy. |
| 50And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit. | 50They were haughty and practiced abominable deeds before me. Therefore when I saw it I removed them. |
| 51“Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. | 51Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done. |
| 52You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters. | 52So now, bear your disgrace, because you have given your sisters reason to justify their behavior. Because the sins you have committed were more abominable than those of your sisters; they have become more righteous than you. So now, be ashamed and bear the disgrace of making your sisters appear righteous. |
| 53“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back the captives of your captivity among them, | 53"'I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them), |
| 54that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when you comforted them. | 54so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in consoling them. |
| 55When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. | 55As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status, Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status, and you and your daughters will be restored to your former status. |
| 56For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride, | 56In your days of majesty, was not Sodom your sister a byword in your mouth, |
| 57before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere. | 57before your evil was exposed? Now you have become an object of scorn to the daughters of Aram and all those around her and to the daughters of the Philistines--those all around you who despise you. |
| 58You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations,” says the LORD. | 58You must bear your punishment for your obscene conduct and your abominable practices, declares the LORD. |
| 59For thus says the Lord GOD: “I will deal with you as you have done, who despised the oath by breaking the covenant. | 59"'For this is what the sovereign LORD says: I will deal with you according to what you have done when you despised your oath by breaking your covenant. |
| 60“Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. | 60Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting covenant with you. |
| 61Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for daughters, but not because of My covenant with you. | 61Then you will remember your conduct, and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my covenant with you. |
| 62And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD, | 62I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the LORD. |
| 63that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord GOD.’ ” | 63Then you will remember, be ashamed, and remain silent when I make atonement for all you have done, declares the sovereign LORD.'" |
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