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Ezekiel 16:23-35
New International Version
Ezekiel 16:23-35
New International Version
23 “‘Woe!(A) Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness, 24 you built a mound for yourself and made a lofty shrine(B) in every public square.(C) 25 At every street corner(D) you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty, spreading your legs with increasing promiscuity to anyone who passed by.(E) 26 You engaged in prostitution(F) with the Egyptians,(G) your neighbors with large genitals, and aroused my anger(H) with your increasing promiscuity.(I) 27 So I stretched out my hand(J) against you and reduced your territory; I gave you over(K) to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines,(L) who were shocked by your lewd conduct. 28 You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians(M) too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.(N) 29 Then you increased your promiscuity to include Babylonia,[a](O) a land of merchants, but even with this you were not satisfied.(P)
30 “‘I am filled with fury against you,[b] declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!(Q) 31 When you built your mounds at every street corner and made your lofty shrines(R) in every public square, you were unlike a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
32 “‘You adulterous wife! You prefer strangers to your own husband! 33 All prostitutes receive gifts,(S) but you give gifts(T) to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors.(U) 34 So in your prostitution you are the opposite of others; no one runs after you for your favors. You are the very opposite, for you give payment and none is given to you.
35 “‘Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord!
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 16:29 Or Chaldea
- Ezekiel 16:30 Or How feverish is your heart,
Ezekiel 16:23-35
King James Version
Ezekiel 16:23-35
King James Version
23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, 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 therewith.
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;
32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
33 They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.
34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord:
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